Networked LED light fixtures with built-in sensors can create a digital nervous system for cities. If deployed on streets, in parking garages and in buildings, this ubiquitous infrastructure  will create a constant stream of useful data for government, business and citizens.

Dialight , the innovative global leader in LED lighting technology, today launched its new A0/A1 Red Controller System. The A0/A1 system has the lowest DC power consumption in the industry, making it ideal for operating its Vigilant Low (L-810) and Medium (L-864) Intensity Red Obstruction lights typically for met towers for the wind industry or cellular communication towers where solar and battery or generators are typically used as the power source.

Caribbean LED Lighting (St Lucia) (CLL), the only regional LED manufacturer in the region launched their Bois D’Orange showroom and retail store recently. The sister company is based in Barbados, and manufactures all types of residential, commercial, landscape and streetlights and has established an ambitious growth strategy.

Leyard, a global leader in visualization products, today unveiled the Leyard® CarbonLight™ LED display solutions, a family of flexible, lightweight displays uniquely constructed to meet a broad range of creative indoor and outdoor applications.

Until now, red vivarium lighting has been achieved by applying filtering films to white lights – an unreliable and expensive method of providing a uniform diurnal lighting cycle for lab animals. Now, Kenall Manufacturing, a leader in specialty sealed enclosure lighting for over 50 years, is introducing the SimpleSeal™ Narrow Spectrum Red LED for vivariums – the industry’s first true red LED light.

It appears MacBook Pro keyboards will come with OLED touch panels after all, Cult of Mac has leaked photos of the OLED panel enhanced notebooks, which it obtained from an Apple supplier.

City authorities in American city Kinston, North Carolina are planning to swap all traditional streetlights with LEDs, which is expected to cut energy consumption, improve security and save money, reported Kinston.com.

MaxLite, a leading global manufacturer of LED lighting solutions, announces it has become one of the first companies in the lighting industry to join the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as an Innovation Partner in its Zero Energy Ready Homes (ZERH) program.

The Luxurious Travel ("Luxurious Travel" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has entered into a definitive Share Exchange Agreement to acquire all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of US Lighting Group ("US Lighting Group"), an independent designer and manufacturer of patent-pending, transformer less, LED lighting technologies.

      UpLamp launched a campaign on Kickstarter to finance its smartphone driven bedside lamp. The team pledges EUR 36,000 for the UpLamp.   Lamps that detect motions and dim correspondingly may not be new, but UpLamp turns it into a smartphone docking station.       The LED lamp uses the smartphone’s flash camera as its light source. With specially designed optic and plastic resin, UPLamp creates soft glow that is ideal for bed time mood....

Luminoso, a leading text understanding software company with roots in the MIT Media Lab, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mike Brunnick to the position of Global SVP of Sales, where he will report directly to Catherine Havasi, CEO. In this new role, Brunnick will be responsible for global revenue and client development at Luminoso; importantly, he will also be charged with building new channel partner relationships that provide Luminoso access to new clients and incremental revenue opportunities.

Addressing the rapidly growing area of “Smart Car” in the IoT space, Etron Technology (TPEx: 5351.TW) will showcase its offerings of Known-Good-Dies (KGD) memory, USB Type-C Controller, Spherical 360°x3D Controller, and Automotive LED Drivers. Etron will demonstrate the system products enabled by these innovative solutions, e.g. Audio Visual Navigation (AVN), Spherical 360°x3D Video Capture, Driver's State Detection and Gesture Control for Adaptive Driving Support, Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS), and Automotive LED Lighting for “Smart Car” applications. Etron welcomes companies to experience these innovative solutions and meet the Etron Team at Computex 2016.

The 6th International LED professional Symposium +Expo (LpS 2016) in Bregenz, Austria, from September 20th to 22nd, has increased the conference program to 5 parallel running tracks with 100+ lectures, 4 workshops, 3 forums and 3 top-level keynotes. The three days of the symposium have been divided into a “Strategy Day” followed by a “Technology and Design Day” and ending with a “Solution Day”. In addition to the outstanding conference program, over 100 exhibitors will present latest innovations and the current status of LED and OLED lighting in the 3,000 square meter exhibition area. The organizers are expecting more than 1,500 visitors from over 50 countries.

At the Bay Area Maker Faire held at San Mateo Event Center from May 20- 22, 2016, Hackday found Debra Ansell, who toured around the faire with a LED embedded Matrix hand bag.

Taiwanese LED luminaire manufacturer BrightYolk is preparing to introduce a more environmental friendly LED bulb, where consumers can directly replace broken bulb components.

Rubicon Technology, a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, optical and semiconductor industries, today announced that it has appointed a new independent director, Timothy Brog, President of Locksmith Capital, to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. With the addition of Brog, the Board expands to six members, five of whom are independent.

Crystalplex, a pioneer in the development of high stability quantum dots, has announced a new development enabling increased brightness and color stability for LCD displays using cadmium-free Sapphire™ quantum dots.

Project Sumaary After more than 15 years, the skatepark in Otto-Dullenkopf-Park in Karlsruhe has been completely redesigned and expanded. Therefore, the architects in charge DSGN concepts searched for an energy-efficient and attractive modern full-area lighting solution. Floodlight 20 midi LED luminaires from OSRAM subsidiary Siteco now provide an innovative and flicker-free LED lighting solution that allows the new spectacular skatepark to be used until 10 pm, offering strong light on demand for the skaters.

Vishay Intertechnology introduces a new dual-color IR emitting diode designed to save space in wearable devices and medical patient monitoring systems. Offered in a compact 2 mm by 2 mm by 0.87 mm package, the Vishay Semiconductors VSMD66694 features wavelengths of 660 nm (red) and 940 nm (IR), and is built on SurfLight technology for best-in-class radiant power of 9.5 mW and 8.5 mW, respectively.

The ATIVO multisensor is specially designed for detecting light and the presence, or motion of, people or vehicles in rooms with high ceilings of up to 20 metres. The ATIVO sensor can be used in a wide variety of applications, from industrial, production and assembly halls, to high-bay warehouses and logistics centres.

Philips Lighting, a Royal Philips company and global leader in lighting, has illuminated the most recent addition of Paris’ world famous skyline, the façade of the ‘Le Vérone’ building, the headquarters of the vente-privée e-commerce company in Saint-Denis, Paris, France.

Based in San Diego, California, with manufacturing facilities in the US and Europe, DNSC specializes in developing and manufacturing digital inks, nano materials, and fluids for high-resolution, high-performance digital inkjet printing. DNSC provides unique ink development services, research, and turn-key ink supply and fulfillment solutions reaching end users, resellers and, printer manufacturers worldwide. DNSC has developed an extensive product line under the x-nano™ brand, providing a range of solutions including high-quality, low-cost black & color dye inks (Value-Series), pigment inks (Elite Series), special ultra-fast dry inks (S-Series), magnetic MICR inks (K-Series), invisible fluorescent color (RGB) inks, infrared-absorbing inks (I-Series), and special inks for food grade, textile, and special effect applications (F-, T-, and X-Series). The company’s digital inks target dot-on-demand inkjet applications based on thermal and piezo print heads using aqueous, oil, energy-curable (UV/LED), and eco-solvent based inks.

China is one of the world’s largest automotive consumer market, by late 2015 car ownership in the country reached 172 million cars, and the volume is accelerating. It can be projected in the next few years, Chinese market demands for automotive components and after sales services will increase, the automotive lighting market possesses huge market potential.

Epistar, a leading Taiwanese LED chip maker, is to be the first manufacturer that raise the price of heavily-oversupplied InGaN LEDs. The company plans to raise up to 15% of the price in order to profit.

France and UK recently sent recall notifications to the EU The Rapid Alert System for Non-food Dangerous Products (RAPEX) for LED luminaire products made in China, due to electric shock risks.

AIXTRON, a worldwide leading provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, announced today that Nanchang Kingsoon, a recently founded Chinese manufacturer of optoelectronic devices, has ordered multiple MOCVD cluster tools to expand manufacturing capacities in the area of gallium arsenide-based red, orange and yellow (ROY) LEDs and solar cells. All systems will be delivered in the course of the year.

In this GE blog entry, staff shed insight into how intelligent lighting can change our environment.

Many leading manufacturers that provide innovative technology displayed their up-to-date solutions at OPIE’16, which took place from May 18 - 20 in Yokohama, Japan. OPIE’16, which was jointly held with LASER EXPO 2016, IR-UV EXPO 2016, Space & Astronomy EXPO 2016, LENS EXPO 2016 and Optical Measurement & Positioning EXPO 2016, also co-located with the new Micro & Nano EXPO 2016.

While the term “Internet of Things” and “connected technology” grows increasingly familiar, leading technology giants strive to find out the next “thing” to be connected. Some bet it on the smartwatch while some go for lighting. Samsung locks its eyes on surfboard recently, reported the Verge.

Did you know that May 2016 marks Philips’ 125th anniversary? A milestone that is worth commemorating. Over the past century Philips has transformed unexpected opportunities into meaningful innovations. It is this history that will serve as Philips’ inspiration for the next 125 years.