The City of Sonsonate in El Salvador became the first city in Latin America to adopt GE's intelligent lighting system, a powerful combination of white light LED fixtures and GE's LightGrid, a web central management system designed with ...
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The Indian government should make manufacturing standards for LED lights applied in Prakash Path Yojana (PPY) mandatory, The Economics Times cited a Philips spokesperson saying. The government intends to roll out a nationwide LED ...
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The Indian government intends to slash LED bulb retail prices from the average retail price of INR 300 (US $4.52) to INR 44 (US$ 0.66) under its DELP scheme, reported Times of India. "The government is looking to bring down the price of ...
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Darfon Electronics the turnkey green energy total power solutions provider, new launched a whole series of built-in 10KV lightning surge protected rugged & ultra efficiency outdoor LED lighting driver 60W ~ 270W smart series. To catch the ...
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China’s strategic “One belt, one road” policy has sparked local manufacturers interests of exporting products abroad, but most are afraid to take action. Statistics from different research organizations have varied widely. ...
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Taiwanese LED manufacturer Lextar announced recently it formed a partnership with Leadray Energy and Cree in LED streetlight R&D. The new streetlights integrates Lextar and Cree LED light source technology, and Leadray Energy’s ...
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The City of Round Rock is demonstrating the future of street lighting in partnership with GigaTera, Planled and Opterra. The pilot program, designed by LED innovator Planled, puts cutting-edge streetlight and security systems at two ...
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Cities and their emergency responders will soon have a new way to deploy gunshot detection technology and be able to respond to incidents and react faster to protect their residents. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) between GE Lighting ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy has released a GATEWAY report on the experiences of the City of Portland, OR, in converting its street lighting from high-pressure sodium to LED. Such large-scale conversions are rarely simple matters, and the ...
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Indian government policies are spurring a nationwide LED streetlight upgrade, but parts of Mangalore, Karnataka remain in the dark leading to higher crime rates, as disputes between government organizations over what lighting to install in ...
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Taiwanese LED chip manufacturer Yang Hwa Technology owner Shih-Hsiung Chan was detained by police on Sept. 11, 2015 for suspected accounting fraud and market manipulation, according to a report by China Times. In mid-June, Chan was ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy has released a new report on the comprehensive street lighting restoration currently being undertaken by the City of Detroit, which includes transitioning the existing high-pressure sodium (HPS) sources to LED. ...
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Kingston is a city nicknamed as K-Town in Ulster County, New York, U.S. The Common Council approved the city’s borrowing of US$ 2.1 million to install LED streetlights throughout the city. Early on, the council approved borrowing US$ ...
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Jules Verne said in Around the World in 80 Days: “Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.” Today, that is truer than ever before. Did you ever think it would be possible to communicate so easily with anyone around ...
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China’s decade old streetlight standard GB7000.5-2005 has been replaced with a new standard GB7000.203-2013 that has become effective as of July 1, 2015. Changes in the new and old lighting standards will require manufacturers to make ...
Tags: LED Streetlight, LED Standards, LED