By Deborah Perkins How Superior Dimming Offers New Scope to Create Atmospheric and Emotional EffectsMarrying deep dimming with colour tuning gives lighting designers greater freedom and control If the higher purpose of lighting, beyond mere illumination, is to create mood and atmosphere, then dimming is an important tool for achieving these effects. While basic dimming…
May 17, 2024 By Noah Sabatier Part 3 of “How Many Studies Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb” emphasizes the often-overlooked impact of weather and the spectral reflectance of surfaces on lighting selection, highlighting the importance of considering these factors for optimal lighting design, particularly in outdoor environments. If you have made it to…
May 14, 2024 Lumileds’ latest high-power LED, LUXEON HL4X, uses the familiar 3535 footprint and shares existing optics enabling simple and fast performance upgrades Lumileds announced the release of its LUXEON HL4X power LED that delivers the lighting industry’s highest output and efficacy; it furthers the ability for lighting manufacturers to standardize their designs around a common footprint…
May 14, 2024 Tuned for health Circadian Blue technology delivers the same level of blue light as outdoor light both during the day and night, ensuring your circadian rhythm remains aligned with nature’s intentions for enhanced well-being. The circadian system is fundamental for human health. The most important environmental time cue for the circadian system…
May 14, 2024 The L-Prize seeks to unlock that additional potential to combine high-luminaire efficacy with exceptional lighting quality, data-driven control and functionality, and sustainable design and construction for the future of illumination in commercial and institutional buildings. Advanced interoperable lighting systems have the potential to better manage lighting energy use, integrate with other building…
A brand-new railcar assembly facility in Perth, Australia, has become a canvas for illuminated artwork with the installation of more than one kilometre of LED tube lighting and a dynamic lighting control system from Pharos Architectural Controls. The assembly and commissioning plant in Bellevue, Perth, is part of the Western Australian Railcar Programme. The project will deliver…
May 2, 2024 By Robert Lanteigne Lighting color plays a pivotal role in shaping our environments, influencing mood, productivity, and even our health. Recent trends in human-centric lighting consider how light affects the human body biologically, emotionally, and cognitively. Cold, warm, and dynamic lighting settings can be controlled to optimize comfort and efficiency in homes,…
April 23, 2024 Updating requirements related to energy monitoring and cybersecurity, NLC5.1 is the latest step in the DLC’s effort to expand adoption of Networked Lighting Control technology The DesignLights Consortium marked Earth Day with the release of a draft update to its Networked Lighting Controls Technical Requirements (NLC5.1), continuing efforts to increase market adoption of energy saving…
April 15, 2024 By Noah Sabatier The role of eye movement and gaze control in visual field detection while driving at night In the previous article we discussed how the retina adapts to different levels of light, and what this means for optimizing outdoor dusk-to-dawn lighting. We will now move on to the mechanisms that…
April 8, 2024 By Jeffrey Dross Cost cutting and the loss of LED Performance The Cleveland Museum of Art holds, what most experts believe to be one of the best collections of Asian Art in the world. The post WWII Curator-Director, Sherman E. Lee made important connections throughout the continent while serving there in the…
March 28, 2024 Vantage’s Design Center 4.8 Update Adds Voice Control Capability to Control Vantage InFusion System Through Amazon Alexa for Greater Flexibility and Operability Legrand’s Vantage Lighting Controls today announced Vantage Voice. Vantage Voice adds voice control capability to the Vantage InFusionTM System controller through Amazon Alexa and is now available in the Design…
March 27, 2024 The recent revamp of Studio A in Sinclair Broadcast Group’s flagship WJLA serving viewers in the Washington, DC metro is the latest in a series of close collaborations between one of the largest television operators in the U.S. and the lighting experts at Brightline. In a relationship that’s spanned several decades, the two companies…
March 18, 2024 How studies in vision inform lighting standards at night By Noah Sabatier Changing a light bulb in our home is perhaps the most simple task in which we can still credit ourselves for performing household maintenance. The amount of thought such an operation receives rarely extends beyond looking for the most efficient…
March 11, 2024 MaxLite, a pioneer in energy-efficient lighting solutions, proudly announced the launch of c-Max Network Partners, featuring advanced network lighting controls propositions that seamlessly combines MaxLite’s broad c-Max controls ready luminaires with other industry-leading technology partners control systems. MaxLite chose Silvair as one of its network partners due to their full technology stack…
March 5, 2024 Several macro level trends occurring across the globe will continue to fuel the growth of the retrofit industry for the foreseeable future, with lighting being a big part of the equation in making existing buildings as efficient as possible. The first trend is the Global Sustainability movement. The United States federal government has…
March 4, 2024 Guest post by Steve Mesh Digital Addressable Lighting Interface (DALI) Drivers as tools for interoperability and increase functionality across vendors in the lighting industry In the lighting controls industry, are we at an inflection point where vendors are starting to embrace the idea of cross-vendor interoperability? Historically, the lighting industry has approached…