2015-10-23

Empire State Building to Throw on Annual Halloween LED Light Show

Empire State Realty Trust and iHeartMedia officially announced a Halloween "treat" with the annual Empire State Building (ESB) Halloween music-to-light show. The iconic landmark will synchronize its world-famous LED tower lights to spooky Halloween hits, broadcast on iHeartMedia's powerhouse radio stations Z100 and 103.5 KTU and via the iHeartRadio app at 6:45 p.m. and 10.pm. on Saturday, October 31, 2015. Renowned lighting designer Marc Brickman will choreograph the display to a soundtrack including fan favorites from previous Halloween shows as well as new additions "Disturbia" by Rihanna, "E.T." by Katy Perry and The Addams Family theme song.
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2015-10-23

ESI Designs Smart LED Chandelier for PNC Plaza in Pittsburgh

Created by pioneering experience design firm ESI Design for The PNC Financial Services Group, The Beacon, a first-of-its-kind, data-driven media installation located in The Tower at PNC Plaza, pulses with shifting light, color, and sound patterns to express energy and water consumption, water recycling, sun exposure, natural ventilation, waste, composting, use of artificial light, and other building indicators.
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2015-10-23

Walker Tower Façade Illuminates New York Skyline

The Walker Tower is close to Ground Zero in New York and was damaged during the 9/11 attacks in 2001. It was later converted from office space to a high-end apartment building. The Art Deco façade and spires have now been illuminated with ERCO projectors, without any spill light to detract from the view of the skyline.
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2015-10-22

Four Features of M&A in the Chinese LED Industry in 2015

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are occurring at a rapid pace in the LED industry. Based on incomplete statistics compiled by LEDinside editorial team in China, more than 37 mergers have occurred in the LED industry during first half of 2015, averaging three acquisitions per month. Acquisitions in the industry are maturing, and new M&A trends have emerged.
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2015-10-22

Everlight Refutes DIGITIMES Misleading Unpaid Leave Report

Taiwanese LED manufacturer Everlight has issued a statement Thursday rebutting a DIGITIMES report released a day before claiming it has forced employees to take one week unpaid leave in November.
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2015-10-22

California Proposed Lighting Standard Raises the Bar for Energy Efficiency

The California Energy Commission released a final staff report proposing the first standards for small-diameter directional lamps and light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Directional lamps are often used in commercial track lighting, while LEDs replace screw-based incandescent bulbs and compact fluorescent lighting (CFL) typically found in homes. Prompted by legislation requiring the Energy Commission to adopt standards to reduce energy use of lighting in homes by 50% and businesses by 25% from the 2007 levels by 2018, the proposed standards will save energy and improve the quality of the light bulbs that Californians are buying every day.
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2015-10-22

Saignaw City in Michigan Borrows US $5.2M for LED Lighting Project and Equipment Purchases

Saignow City in Michigan, U.S. has borrowed US $5.2 million for city projects including vehicle and LED streetlight upgrade project, according to a MLive report.
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2015-10-22

Sensity's Light Sensory Network to be Implemented in U.S. Property Group

Sensity Systems, the pioneer of Light Sensory Networks (LSN), today announced that Simon Property Group is expanding its NetSense Light Sensory Network deployments to multiple retail properties across the United States. Ranked among the largest shopping mall owners in the country, Simon plans to go well beyond energy efficiency with Sensity LSNs. They are currently deploying the NetSense platform in their parking lots and garages for advanced lighting control. Smart parking, public safety and other operational applications will be implemented in the future to help the mall operator reach their strategic business goals and deliver superior shopping experiences at their properties nationwide.
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2015-10-22

Symphony of Lights Festivities Postponed to Fall 2016

Howard County General Hospital and the Howard Hospital Foundation thank all of you who have volunteered, participated or sponsored Symphony of Lights over the past 21 years. Symphony of Lights festivities will be postponed until fall 2016 to allow for the redevelopment of Merriweather Park at Symphony Woods in Columbia, Md.
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2015-10-22

Philips Creates Dreamy Light Setting for DARKLIGHT

Every once in a while you see something so creatively astonishing it just blows your mind. That’s exactly how I felt after watching DARKLIGHT, a short film by Sweetgrass Productions.
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2015-10-22

Canadian Town Rolls Out LED Streetlight Upgrade

The Town of Lincoln is partnering with Realterm Energy through the Association of Municipalities of Ontariol/Local Area Services for the conversion of the Town's streetlights to new LED technology.
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2015-10-22

Digital Lumens Appoints New Global Sales VP

Digital Lumens, the market leader in intelligent LED lighting systems, today announced the appointment of Steve Ronneberg as Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Ronneberg joins Digital Lumens from Montreal-based Grass Valley, part of St. Louis-based Belden Inc., which delivers end-to-end television production and content distribution solutions to meet the mission-critical network infrastructure needs of broadcast markets.
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2015-10-22

Osram Smart Lights Compatible with Nest Thermostat

Connected lighting is an essential part of today’s smart home technology solutions. Osram’s LIGHTIFY system has joined the Works with Nest programme, one of the leading drivers in the smart home business. The Nest Learning Thermostat offers simple and thoughtful solutions for every home.
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2015-10-22

Hubbell Lighting Adds New LED Lights to Its High Bay Portfolio

Hubbell Lighting, a world leader in lighting innovation, announced today that Hubbell Industrial Lighting has added three new LED products to its popular HBL and KHL highbay lines: a high output HBL highbay (HBLHO), a flood light version of the HBL (HBL Flood) and a flood light version of the Kemlux III highbay (KHL Flood).
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2015-10-21

Chinese LED Manufacturer Leyard's Net Profit Rose 104% YoY

Leyard Optoelectronic, a leading worldwide provider of LED display products and auxiliary systems announced its 3Q15 financial result. The company’s revenue rose to RMB 523 million (US $82.39 million), reflecting 68.12% year on year (YoY) growth, while its net profit skyrocketed 182.67% YoY to RMB 103 million (US $16.23 million). Meanwhile, Leyard's 41.24% consolidated gross margin is considered relatively high among the manufacturers within the LED industry.
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2015-10-21

Despite Net Loss in 1Q16, Cree Projects Improvements in Coming Quarter

Cree, a market leader in LED lighting, announced revenue of US $425.5 million for its first quarter of fiscal 2016, ended September 27, 2015. This represents a 1% decrease compared to revenue of $427.7 million reported for the first quarter of fiscal 2015, and an 11% increase compared to the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015. GAAP net loss for the first quarter was $23.6 million, or $0.23 per diluted share, compared to GAAP net income of $11.1 million, or $0.09 per diluted share, for the first quarter of fiscal 2015. On a non-GAAP basis, net income for the first quarter of fiscal 2016 was $22.1 million, or $0.21 per diluted share, compared to non-GAAP net income for the first quarter of fiscal 2015 of $29.6 million, or $0.24 per diluted share. 
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2015-10-21

Wisconsin City Upgrades to LED Lights

Electric utilities company Xcel Energy will be installing LED streetlights across Wisconsin city Hudson in the U.S., according to a report by Star Observer.
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2015-10-21

Illumitex Forges Partnership with Indoor Harvest for Indoor Growing Systems

Illumitex is pleased to announce that Indoor Harvest, design-builder of farms for indoor agriculture, has selected Illumitex as the preferred lighting provider for their systems, which are sold to innovative growers around the world. Together, Illumitex and Indoor Harvest will engage in R&D and coordinated business development activities to offer a complete hardware solution for the indoor farming industry, all at the bleeding edge of agricultural science.
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2015-10-21

BeON Home's Smart Light Bulb Hits U.S. Residential Market

BeON Home, creator of the first Bluetooth Smart-based home protection system that provides preventative security and emergency lighting, today announced that its smart modules and LED light bulbs are now available for order and beginning to ship to homes across North America.
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2015-10-21

Danish Researchers Find Turquoise and Blue LED Phototherapy Effective in Treating Infant Hyperbilirubinemia

Danish researchers have found blue and turquoise LED phototherapy are equally effective in reducing hyperbilirubinemia in infants, according to a recent entry in scientific journal Nature.
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2015-10-21

Plessey Releases Custom LED Retrofit for Brazil's Residential Illumination

Plessey announced today that it has designed an integrated LED light and fixture solution, the Cidadão Powerlight, which provides an easy and cost effective retrofit for traditional, general lighting in homes across Brazil. The Cidadao Powerlight will be available in Brazil through Plessey's representative company LumenLEDs Sistemas.
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2015-10-21

Turkish Butterfly Sanctuary Lit with Gaudy LED Lights from Philips

Europe’s largest butterfly sanctuary can now rival the color spectacle of its insects after receiving an LED makeover by Royal Philips, the global leader in lighting.
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2015-10-21

Lighting Science Group to Launch LED Commercial Light Series

Lighting Science today officially unveiled its new LSPro™ series of commercial LED solutions to tremendous industry anticipation and excitement. This new product line is the apex of Lighting Science’s research and development efforts to transform product standards of the LED commercial market and take it to the next level. Created with the commercial market in mind, these new lamps feature higher attributes than general industry standards, such as color-rendering indexes (CRI) of 90+, better lumen output and Energy Star ratings.
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2015-10-21

Bracknell Forest in UK Proposes Major Streetlight Replacement Program

Council leaders will consider proposals to install energy saving LED lamps in all Bracknell Forest street lights within three years.
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2015-10-21

ON Semiconductor Introduces New Automotive Image Sensor with LED Flicker Mitigation

ON Semiconductor, driving energy efficient innovations, announced sampling of ground-breaking LED Flicker Mitigation (LFM) technology in a new 2.3 megapixel (MP) CMOS image sensor that sets a new benchmark for automotive Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) applications. Capable of capturing 1080p high dynamic range (HDR) video, the AR0231AT also includes features that support Automotive Safety Integrity Level B (ASIL B). 
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2015-10-20

Which Country Has the Best LED Policy Among Japan, India, and Malaysia?

In recent years, countries around the world are becoming increasingly concerned with energy and environmental issues, which is closely tied with human survival. Low carbon economy has become a very popular global issue. LED lighting’s high reliability, low energy consumption, long lifetime, low pollution, and high quake resilience has made it a globally recognized energy efficient and environmental product. Driven by large market potentials and a positive industry outlook, many countries have launched industry development policies to spur rapid growth in the LED industry. After all these years, which country incentives spurred the proliferation of LEDs? LEDinside will be focusing on LED policies in Japan, India and Malaysia’s.
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2015-10-20

Nationstar to Invest US$ 9.4M for Equipment Purchase

Chinese LED manufacturer Nationstar announced it has signed a domestic equipment procurement agreement with ASM Pacific Technology (Shanghai), and import equipment purchase agreement with ASM Pacific Technology (Hong Kong).
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2015-10-20

U.S. City Seeks Feedback on LED Streetlight Installations

Officials in Gloucester, Massachusetts, U.S. are seeking public input on the new LED streetlights installed around the city, according to a Gloucester Times report.
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2015-10-20

EV Connect to Team up with GE to Upgrade Charging Stations for Hilton

EV Connect , a leading provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions and its innovative cloud-based management software, announced today a collaboration with Hilton Worldwide (NYSE: HLT) and Current, powered by GE (NYSE: GE), to provide Hilton properties with hospitality-focused total electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions. Hilton Worldwide has promoted to all 3,700 of its U.S. properties EV charging solutions comprised of GE’s WattStationTM and DuraStationTM charging stations and the EV Connect charging management application specifically developed for the hospitality industry and structured for the Hilton family of properties.
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2015-10-20

International Artist Reshapes Viewers' Perceptions with Lights

Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967, Denmark/Iceland) is one of the most acclaimed international artists today. Since the early 1990s, his works have been presented in countless exhibitions all over the world. Eliasson uses a variety of media, including sculpture, photography, film and installation, but he also creates architectural projects and site-specific pieces for public spaces. Light, wind and water in every conceivable form feature prominently. And yet, nature is present in the works as material rather than as subject matter.
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Violumas, provider of high-power UV LED solutions and inventor of 3-PAD LED technology, is proud to launch the release of new 275nm and 265nm LEDs in mid-power, high-power, and high-density packages. The radiant flux of the new 275nm and 265nm... READ MORE

DURHAM, NC – November 12, 2024 –– Cree LED, a Penguin Solutions brand (Nasdaq: PENG), today announced the launch of its new CV28D LEDs with FusionBeam™ Technology, a groundbreaking advancement for the LED signage market... READ MORE