OSRAM SYLVANIA has expanded its portfolio with the ProPoint® Small Floodlight and PermaLED™ Area Light. Designed to replace traditional lighting technologies, these highly efficient outdoor luminaires deliver significant energy and maintenance savings for a variety of exterior illumination applications.  

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published a new GATEWAY report entitled Pedestrian Friendly Outdoor Lighting. Recognizing that pedestrian lighting has different criteria for success than street and area lighting, GATEWAY followed two pedestrian-scale lighting projects that required multiple mockups – one at Stanford University in California and the other at Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York – to gain insight into what those criteria might be, how they differ from street and area lighting applications, and how solid-state lighting can be better applied in pedestrian applications.

Cree Edge High-Output TrueWhite LED Luminaire Delivers Breakthrough Color Performance, Helps Improve Bottom Lin. 

Since installing the ROAM™ outdoor lighting monitoring and control system from Acuity Brands Inc., the Plymouth School District in Plymouth, Mass. has significantly reduced maintenance time and energy costs. The ROAM system allows maintenance staff to easily customize outdoor lighting needs for eight individual elementary, middle and high school campuses. The ROAM system helps the District proactively identify potential outages and lighting issues before or immediately after they occur. By knowing that the lights are operating properly at the glance of the s...

Cree, Inc., a market leader in LED lighting, announces the commercial availability of new, high-efficiency white XLamp® XP-E LEDs. These “outdoor white” LEDs provide the same flux and efficacy levels as Cree’s XLamp cool white LEDs with a neutral color that more closely matches existing high-intensity discharge (HID) installations (4000K – 5300K CCT).