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Sunovia to Provide LED Light Engines for Flood Lamp
SSLDesign News Staff
November 6, 2008...Sunovia Energy Technologies Inc. of Sarasota, Florida USA has finalized an agreement to provide its EvoLucia LED light engines to Precision-Lighting for use in their TMD Series flood light. Under the terms of the $2 million agreement Sunovia will deliver 20,000 light engines to Precision, who will integrate them into a completed luminaire. Sunovia notes that a loading dock lighting is an ideal market application for the TMD flood light. Sunovia, a maker of cadmium telluride solar cells and owner of the EvoLucia LED light engine technology says that a a Fortune 100 global freight logistics company, is currently deploying Precision's TMD flood light across the U.S. SSL Design PageTwo members login for more. Guests can view membership details.
Lebanon’s Future TV Studio is Decorated with Martin's EvenLED Panels
SSLDesign News Staff
October 31, 2008...Martin Professional's system of bright LED light panels for uniform projection, has reportedly been used in several TV studios around the world. Future TV in Lebanon has also implemented the modular system in its newsroom. In a design created by Wanzani & Associates, two columns of five EvenLED panels rise around a video wall, forming a distinctive, decorative background.
“Originally, the client wanted simply to change the set of the daily news show from a studio-based set into a newsroom environment set,” said Ali Wazani, Managing Director of Wazani & Associates, an architectural firm responsible for some of the region’s top television studio designs.
“Most of today’s TV stations, international events and productions base their design on a branding and identity brief. It is the exceptional image that we are all striving to achieve,” Wazani explained.
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Christmas Lights Etc. Reveals Three Money Saving Tips For Holiday Decorations in 2008
SSLDesign News Staff
October 30, 2008...With Holloween this Friday, people are reminded that Thanksgiving is Just a month away. Traditionally, the day after Thanksgiving is the first day for Christmas sales, and Christmas decorating. In the spirit of the coming season, Christmas Lights Etc. of Alpharetta, Georgia USA, announced three ways that consumers can reduce their holiday decorating costs.
The company points out that LED-based Christmas lights last up to 11 holiday seasons, rarely burn out, and will help save an average consumer up to $100 per year on electric bills.
The first money saving method that the company recommends is to purchase Energy Star certified LED Christmas lights for indoors and outdoors. The company notes that Energy Star LEDs are independently proven to be brighter, last longer and be more energy efficient than traditional incandescent lights. Christmas Lights Etc. explained that while it's true that purchasing LED Christmas lights will cost you a little more upfront, the true price of ownership makes LEDs a better investment overall year after year.
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Renaissance Lighting Forges Multiple Marketing Alliances for LED Business in Canada
SSLDesign News Staff
October 30, 2008...Renaissance Lighting has established strategic marketing alliances with four of Canada's lighting specialists to expand its share of the global LED architectural and general illumination business. Renaissance Lighting, an LED luminaire maker of Herndon, Virginia USA, has forged marketing alliances with CD/M2 Lightworks in Vancouver, BC; Flux Lighting Inc of Ottawa, Ontario.; Luxtec in Montreal and Quebec, Quebec Canada, and SGi Lighting Inc, an Ontario-based lighting distributor. According to Renaissance, the combined alliances provide it with a coast-to-coast marketing reach into Canada's largest and most populated regions. SSL Design PageTwo members login for more. Guests can view membership details.
PowerSecure Gets Order from Walgreens for LED Technology
SSLDesign News Staff
October 30, 2008...PowerSecure International Inc., an energy management and distribution company based in Wake Forest, North Carolina USA, reported that Walgreens, a U.S. based pharmacy and convenience store chain, will purchase the company's EfficientLights LED lighting technology for the company's refrigerated cases installed in the majority of Walgreens new openings in 2009.
PowerSecure notes that its new technology provides the added benefit of reducing ongoing maintenance costs associated with traditional fluorescent lighting. The company boasts that the expected lifetime of the luminaires is at least five times that of fluorescent lighting for refrigerated cases. The luminaires are more environmentally friendly than fluorescents because they do not contain mercury, and therefore they eliminate the need for special disposal of fluorescent bulbs.
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Leave it to grandMa to Light Up the Stage
SSLDesign News Staff
October 24, 2008...Some lighting designers in stage, theater, TV, and movie production have begun using the grandMa. No, that is not the name for an elderly female lighting designer. It is the name for a programmable lighting console available from MA Lighting in South Africa. Tim Dunn, Director and renowned Lighting Designer at Gearhouse South Africa has great respect for both the grandMA console and the team that produced it. “From a lighting desk point of view, the back up and the investment are amazing. It’s actually freaky what the grandMA can do. The console is both powerful and completely stable. One thing I try to share with the guys is that the desk should not restrict you. Don’t think of the technology but decide what you want to do and then do it. I find new things every time I work on the desk.” SSL Design PageTwo members login for more. Guests can view membership details.
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Report on 2008 IESNA Street and Area Lighting Conference - Part 2
Guest Editorial - Shawn Keeney, LED Transformations, LLC
October 30, 2008...Our guest editorial is the second of a two-part report on IESNA's 2008 annual Street and Area Lighting Conference (SALC), held recently in Denver on October 12th through 15th.
In the first installment of this editorial, we shared an overview of the key talks and networking sessions from Day 1 of the 2008 SALC event. Topics included discussions on ways to meet growing energy demands with managed conservation policies, developments and case studies in outdoor lighting advances, current industry goals, an examination of LED technology progress, and a review of solar-powered outdoor lighting opportunities. At the conclusion of that installment, we noted that this year's conference seemed to mark a distinct step forward in the adoption of SSL in the street lighting industry. Although there was a great deal of talk about LEDs, the general feeling among many was that there is still a long way to go until the technology is ready for widespread adoption.
Tuesday morning's session began with a talk from Govi Rao, CEO of Lighting Science Group, called "When Will LED Lighting Be Everywhere?" Mr. Rao outlined the challenges of LED adoption and conditions needed to sustain it, which include product stewardship, capacity, standards, and metrics. In another LED-related highlight, following a talk on pole attachment regulations, Yaser Abdelsamed, Director of Innovation at Acuity Brands Lighting, gave a presentation called "Applying LEDs in the Real World." This covered some of the basics we have already become familiar with, and then went into some depth on the three P's of lighting: physiology, physics, and psychology (or perception).
The remainder of the presentations on Tuesday covered non-LED topics, so they will not be covered. There were, however, additional networking sessions including one specifically on LED Technology and Applications. While much of the conversation continued on topics involving binning and standards, including RP-8, it was interesting to note that in that presentation, when asked for a show of hands, most people said they were willing to try LED products, although very few of them had actually done so or planned to do so.
The exhibit portion of the conference featured displays from 40 companies involved in various aspects of street lighting from poles and fixtures to controls and light sources. Companies who have already made a name in SSL such as BetaLED, Carmanah, GE Lumination, and Leotek were present, but there were also some more traditional lighting companies showing new LED-based products including Cyclone Lighting, Cooper Lighting Streetworks, North Star Lighting, Eye Lighting International, and Lumec (part of Philips). A new exhibitor called Chips and Wafers, who is representing Neo-Pac, was there for the first time this year.
Another noteworthy display was in the Pemco booth which featured a luminaire using LIFI technology from Luxim, who classifies it as solid state lighting technology. It consists of a small metal-halide bulb not much larger than a breath-mint which is driven by an RF power amplifier. This electrodeless source is supposed to operate up to 30,000 hours while producing 19250 lumens initially at 244 watts (79 lm/W) with a CRI of 95. It can be dimmed down to 20 percent, although the output shifts towards the blue part of the spectrum. This luminaire is still very new and while not yet available, according to the brochure, it is slated for sale starting in 2009.
Summary thought: Why the general feeling that there is still a long way to go until widespread adoption? The main reasons for this appear to be the higher upfront costs and the lack of current ability by the manufacturers to demonstrate that their products will live up to what they have promised. Energy savings alone will not drive sales; maintenance savings are a key factor. Other lighting technologies such as induction and LIFI represent viable alternatives and will continue to merit consideration. There are issues with the current lighting standards that will need to be addressed in order for SSL to be considered for mainstream usage. While there is a great deal of excitement about this new technology, there is also a great deal of healthy skepticism. While there have been a number of high-profile test installations, it will still be a while until we see an LED street light on every corner. It will certainly be interesting to see how things shape up in the coming year.
Shawn Keeney is Vice President of LED Transformations LLC. and can be reached via email at skeeney@ledtransformations.com. Bringing to the table 30 years of experience in electronics, illumination, optics, thermal management and manufacturing, LED Transformations provides its solid state lighting clients with support for luminaire and lighting project design, development and deployment as well as education and training in LED fundamentals.
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