NRG Energy Enters IoT Market via Vivint Smart Home
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NRG Energy Enters IoT Market via Vivint Smart Home

The smart home market continues to expand, and now a large utility has gotten into the category. Houston-based NRG Energy (once part of Northern States Power Company) has centered on energy generation and the retail electricity space for years, with growth coming from nearly one dozen acquisitions of other energy companies. In March, NRG entered…

WAC Unveils WAC-STRUT Stealth Framing Projector
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WAC Unveils WAC-STRUT Stealth Framing Projector

A sophisticated option for illuminating art and collectibles, WAC Lighting debuts the new WAC-STRUT Framing Projector as part of its WAC-STRUT modular LED lighting system. Designed as an accent luminaire that can shape and zoom light on art and objects, this innovative LED luminaire operates as part of the award-winning WAC-STRUT lighting, electrical and power…

Current’s Lifeshield® Architectural Downlighting Suits Complex Spaces
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Current’s Lifeshield® Architectural Downlighting Suits Complex Spaces

Lifeshield® LED lighting from Current – which ensures safety, reliability and compliance in complex environments – now includes Lifeshield Architectural Downlighting to bring consistent visual quality and comfort to healthcare, behavioral, correctional, and cleanroom settings. Challenging complex environments require proper light levels with good uniformity. Fixtures must also work around the mechanical obstructions of medical…

PureEdge Lighting Launches Pure Smart™ Architectural Lighting & Controls
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PureEdge Lighting Launches Pure Smart™ Architectural Lighting & Controls

PureEdge Lighting has launched Pure Smart™ architectural lighting and smart controls connected by WiZ Pro, a global brand of Signify. Pure Smart features TruColor™ RGBTW, the company’s premier 5-channel light engine, which offers over 16+ million colors, 85,000 tunable white tones, and is optimized for use with the WiZ Pro wireless control ecosystem. Pure Smart…

Barron Lighting Group Celebrates 50th Anniversary
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Barron Lighting Group Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Glendale, Ariz.-based Barron Lighting Group, a manufacturer of commercial and industrial lighting solutions, is proud to celebrate its 50-year anniversary. Founded in Gurnee, Illinois in 1973, Barron has enjoyed five decades of growth built on its core values of integrity and innovation. From the beginning and through the early 1980s, the Barron Manufacturing Corporation established…

WWE Headquarters Becomes Smarter
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WWE Headquarters Becomes Smarter

When World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) employees returned to the company’s Stamford, Connecticut headquarters full-time last month, there were impressive changes in their working environment.   California-based Enlighted, a leading proptech company owned by Siemens, was tapped by the WWE to support its vision of a smart, energy-efficient headquarters by implementing an intelligent lighting control system…

LMPG Adds 9th Lighting Brand, Acquires Vode
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LMPG Adds 9th Lighting Brand, Acquires Vode

Montreal-based LMPG Inc. (formerly known as Lumenpulse Group), a leading specification-grade LED lighting solutions group, has acquired a majority stake in privately held, U.S.-based Vode Lighting, LLC, an LED lighting solution provider focused on interior architectural lighting. Headquartered in Sonoma, Calif., Vode is renowned for its adaptive architectural lighting systems that are easily scaled to…

TALQ Consortium Releases New Version of Smart City Protocol
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TALQ Consortium Releases New Version of Smart City Protocol

The TALQ Consortium has published version 2.5.0 of its Smart City protocol. The continuous evolution of the protocol guarantees the adaptation of the interface standard on a global level to meet changing market needs. Version 2.5.0 introduces a new Lighting Asset Management profile, which addresses a long-standing demand from cities to be able to manage…

Lighting Services Inc Promotes Brian Keilt to VP/Sales
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Lighting Services Inc Promotes Brian Keilt to VP/Sales

Stony Point, N.Y.-based manufacturer Lighting Services, Inc. (LSI), has promoted Brian Keilt to VP/Sales; most recently, he was serving as Director of Sales. Keilt joined LSI in 2013, as a regional sales manager. Keilt brings more than 30 years of experience in the lighting design community and possesses an understanding of the intricacies of the…

ArchLIGHT Summit Partners With IALD Educational Trust
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ArchLIGHT Summit Partners With IALD Educational Trust

ArchLIGHT Summit, the growing lighting trade event and educational platform for the architectural, specification and design communities, has partnered with the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) Education Trust, a not-for-profit charitable educational organization that provides direct support to educators and students for the purpose of promoting the study of architectural lighting design. The participation…

Billows Electric Supply to be Acquired by Sonepar’s Cooper Electric
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Billows Electric Supply to be Acquired by Sonepar’s Cooper Electric

New Jersey-based Billows Electric Supply, a renowned family-owned supplier of electrical products and services to electrical contractors within the Philadelphia, South Jersey, and Wilmington metropolitan market, has entered into an agreement to become a part of Cooper Electric, a subsidiary of Sonepar USA. Billows will continue to operate under the Billows name. Billows was founded…