2013-04-28
AT THE JUST concluded Lightfair International (LFI) 2013 trade show at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, the operative word was "BRIGHT." "We're in a lumens [brightness level] race," several exhibitors explained. All to prove that their new-generation fixtures - most fired up by a mess of small, energy-efficient LEDs - put out a glow that beats older products using incandescent, halogen or flourescent bulbs. There's also a big push on by LED lightbulb makers to make their new-gen bulbs glow like warm incandes...
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2013-04-27
Kim Lighting, a Hubbell Lighting brand, announced the LightVault 8 in-grade outdoor solid-state lighting (SSL) fixture at Lightfair International (LFI) 2013, with an integrated Bluetooth wireless network for commissioning. Kurt Versen's MultiSource downlights won an Innovation award in part due to the family's flexible support of LED and legacy sources. And Hubbell Building Automation won a controls-oriented award for its WASP2 outdoor occupancy sensor.
The Kim Lighting LED-based LightVault 8 products are due to market in May. The company wi...
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