Telensa, a connected street lighting and smart city applications provider, announced that it has been selected by the Highways Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government (HKSARG) to deploy its PLANet intelligent street lighting system in a pilot programme led by engineering services group South King-Kum Shing JV to replace about 600 streetlights in Yuen Long Town with wirelessly managed LED lights.

Yesterday (20 June), Jacob Tam, Executive Vice President/ Deputy BU Head at Samsung LED, vehemently refuted the Korea Herald’s and The Bell’s reporting of Samsung LED selling off its business unit in Tianjin to a Hong Kongese private equity firm.

Hong Kong will soon replace its street lights with more energy-efficient LED units, government officials confirmed. The competent authority, Honk Kong Highways Department, on Wednesday said due to mature LED technology and the significant drop in prices of LED light, the department agrees now is the right time to commence LED street lights replacement scheme. It added that replacement work has already started in the current financial year.

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) robots will increasingly grow across industries, providing new business opportunities, according to speakers at the 2017 Tech Trends Symposium, held during the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2017 (13-16 April).

Organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), the 14th Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) and the concurrent 14th International ICT Expo drew to a successful close yesterday (16 April). 

Results of the 10th Hong Kong Lighting Design Competition were announced at a networking reception during the opening of the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Spring Edition). 

The ninth Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Spring Edition), organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), closed yesterday. The four-day fair (6-9 April) welcomed a record of 1,340 exhibitors from 13 countries and regions, welcoming close to 21,000 buyers from 115 countries and regions, a 5.8 per cent increase over the previous year.

The hustle and bustle of Hong Kong makes this city alive, and the same energy and excitement is clearly felt at the Hong Kong Lighting Fair 2017. Here are some of the highlights and booming trends that LEDinside observed.

Silk Road Economic Belt (or One-Belt One-Road), China’s initiative to strengthen cooperation among countries between China and Euroasia, has opened up many new opportunities across industries.

The Hong Kong Lighting Fair continues to be a celebration of light and color, illustrating the dynamic and vibrant development of the lighting industry. According to LEDinside’s first-hand observation, there are several new products and designs that really caught people’s eyes.

The ninth Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Spring Edition) opened today and continues through 9 April at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) featuring more than 1,300 exhibitors from 13 countries and regions.

Organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Spring Edition), Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) and the International ICT Expo, will kick off at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) in April.

Viribright Lighting, Inc.® the preferred, energy-efficient, long-life, LED light bulb replacement for GE, Sylvania, Philips, Cree and Osram LED light bulbs, is pleased to announce their participation at the 2017 Hong Kong International Lighting Fair in booth 1E-A02 in the Aurora Hall, at the Hong Kong Convention Center, in Hong Kong, China April 6th-9th, 2017.

A research team at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) claims it has successfully developed the most energy-efficient LED filament technology with a luminous efficacy of 129lm/W, which represents 1.5 times the efficacy of traditional LED lamps, surpassing all other general lighting tools available in the market.  

The 9th edition of HKTDC Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Spring Edition) will be staged from 6 to 9 April 2017 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Around 1,300 exhibitors are expected to join the fair, offering global buyers a one-stop sourcing platform for all finished products, parts and components.

A Hong Kong designers Jason Lam and Sampson Wong’s interactive lighting display, “Our 60-Second Friendship Begins Now” got pulled by the local government for “unauthorized name change,” reported ejiinsight.

Internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima presented his new large-scale installation Time Waterfall during this year's Art Basel in Hong Kong. The work was shown across the entire façade of the city's iconic 490-meter-high International Commerce Centre on the Kowloon harbour-front. The installation will be on display until the end of April.

Around 25,000 LED white roses are scattered and displayed around Light Rose Garden HK. Each rose offers its blossoming love to glow at 6 pm every night.

NVC Lighting, which has suspended trade on the Chinese bourse, recently appointed Wang Donglei as the company’s official CEO, according to a report by Chinese media Tencent.

Intertek Hong Kong marks another milestone in LED testing today with the Grand Opening of its LED Technology Center. It is the most advanced and comprehensive commercial third party LED testing center in Asia which offers a complete end-to-end solution on LED testing.

“Technology is the future” was Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing’s slogan during an interview with local media Mingpao.com this week. He urged the special administrative region to focus more attention on innovative technology as it will become the driving force for the economy and alleviate poverty. For Li, the first step towards changing the world is as simple as switching to LEDs.

The world’s second largest lighting expo, the 15th edition Hong Kong International Lighting Fair which runs from Oct. 27-30 this year, successfully kicked off at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center on Sunday. The fair broke another all time high record by attracting 2,360 manufacturers from more than 38 countries and regions to attend. This exhibition emphasized on the innovative application instead of lighting technology so visitors did have a tour of fancy lighting fixtures.

Light pollution has become a big problem in Hong Kong as the new generation of dynamic LED and LCD advertising screens coming flood. Carl Gardner, Director of CSG Lighting Consultancy Ltd’, was recently invited by the city authorities in Hong Kong to advise them on ways that the city and its local businesses can reduce the problems of light nuisance and light pollution. Hong Kong has some of the densest living conditions in the world – high-rise residential blocks are packed tightly together, to maximise land use, and upwards light spill from lighting at...

The Housing Authority in Hong Kong has scheduled to replace fluorescent lamps in the corridors of public housing estates with LED lighting. Several issues including the price, plus the fact it does not function properly in hot weather, and the repair problem need to be considered. Housing Department chief manager Ho Wing-ip said tests are being done in various housing units to see which brand is most suitable. In addition to the tests in public housing, the authority will also spend HK$270 million to improve the transformers in lamps, replacing the electromagnetic bala...

Successful launch of jointly developed Super Star LED lamps featuring patented industry-leading LED technologies demonstrates deep commitment to Hong Kong’s LED lighting industry

Silicon is a lower cost raw material, and it has greater economies of scale in manufacturing than sapphire wafers most often used. Hong Kong University and Taiwan National Chiao Tung University researchers attempted to grow (380-450nm) indium gallium nitride LEDs on Silicon. The researchers previously developed micro-scale patterning using a silicon nitride (SiN) mask. Now they find Silicon also has a higher thermal conductivity which gives it better thermal control than sapphire.

Elumin8 Ltd has today announced a strategic partnership with Chinese lighting company Tianjin Gongda Hiyu Solid State Lighting Co. Ltd. (Hiyu). The agreement is to develop advanced LED street lighting applications and distribute them across Europe, Middle East & Asia. HiYu is an associate of the Climate Control Committee – part of the Climate Group

OPTILED sets example for the industry by encouraging the public in Hong Kong to switch to greener lighting technologies OPTILED Lighting International, a pioneer of LED lighting technologies, launched its green L.E.D. campaign today. Short for Love the earth, Engage with LED lighting, Dump the conventional bulb, L.E.D. is a movement that will encourage people in Hong Kong to go green by taking the simple action of replacing one conventional bulb with an LED one.

Royal Philips Electronics announced that the Philips’ LED candle, from the Novallure series, has been recognized by the Hong Kong Designers Association with the silver HKDA Asia Design Award 09. According to Philips, advantages of the LED candle include reduced energy consumption, reduced carbon pollution, bright sparkle and similar ambient light effect at significant lower power wattage.

BARCO, a global provider of visualization and display solutions, announces the recent deployment of its ILite 6BK LED backdrop for the Miss Asia Pageant 2009. The event, whose grand final competition took place on 1 November 2009 in Hong Kong, was produced by Asia Television in cooperation with Barco rental partner, AV Promotions Limited Corporation (AVP).