LEDs Magazine November/December 2010 issue is now available
This image courtesy of the Bureau of Street Lighting, City of Los Angeles, shows some of the 140,000 LED outdoor lighting fixtures that will eventually be installed in the city – see page 37.
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LIGHTING: INDUSTRY STANDARDS
LED lighting at the crossroads: country road or expressway?
The LED lighting industry faces five major roadblocks, but if these can be overcome then the market will be able to accelerate rapidly, say FLORIAN WUNDERLICH, DOMINIK WEE and OLIVER VOGLER.
NETWORK CONTROLS
Networks layers pave the way to adaptive lighting controls
Adaptive lighting control systems will be key to maximizing the energy efficiency of SSL, and network technology will form the foundation for such intelligent lighting systems, says Maury Wright.
CONTROLS: INTELLIGENT LIGHTING SYSTEMS
Intelligent lighting systems drive radical energy efficiency
LED-based SSL can deliver significant energy savings relative to legacy light sources. And as Brian Chemel describes, the savings are compounded substantially with the addition of controls, resulting in an intelligent lighting system.
LIGHTING: COMPATIBILITY
System compatibility testing improves reliability of LED lighting devices and systems
In the second article in his series on compatibility and reliability, PHILIP KEEBLER explains how the concept of system compatibility was developed and how it applies to today’s electronic lighting products.
Compatibility Part 3: Applying compatibility concepts to today’s lighting products
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COMMENTARY
Outdoor SSL outpaces standards and practices
NEWS + VIEWS
- Osram Opto Semiconductors appoints new chief executive
- LED market to reach $9.1 billion in 2010, reports SIL Europe
- Chili’s restaurant chain installs 125,000 LED lamps
- Toyoda Gosei and Epistar form joint venture
- LED lighting at forefront of Osram Sylvania survey
- Best Buy installs LED replacement lamps from CRS
- Carmanah acquires LED driver company Lightech
- Seoul LEDs light ZEBRAlliance house
- Synopsys acquires Optical Research Associates
- Cree builds 150-mm LED wafer line
- LED lighting features strongly in Philips’ strategic vision
- San Francisco and London put out RFPs, DOE Consortium expands
- Pilot OLED manufacturing lines planned in USA and Germany
- Bridgelux introduces five-year warranty on LED arrays and modules
FUNDING + PROGRAMS
- AC-DC rocks the boat for LM-79
- Global Lighting Forum launches LED Working Group
- EPA releases Energy Star Luminaires specification second draft
- EU project to accelerate uptake of quality, affordable LED lamps
- FTC sues Lights of America over deceptive claims for LED lamps