Created by design journalist, researcher and lecturer Paolo Ferrarini, Light in Fashion explores new retail lighting initiatives by Philips. From the exclusive AmbiScene Fitting Room system, where customers can adjust the lighting in their fitting room to see how their clothing choices look in custom lighting colours and temperatures to LED colour ...
The International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) is seeking experts to present at Enlighten Americas 2013. Enlighten Americas 2013 will be held on 3-5 October 2013 at the Hyatt Regency Montréal in Montréal, QC Canada. To be considered as a conference speaker you must submit your proposal via the online submission site by 18 January ...
The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) and InfoComm are jointly working on an ANSI Standard for lighting in videoconferencing rooms. This will be a performance standard focused on "single-axis" rooms where participants are seated opposite a set of cameras and displays for interacting with a remote site. Rooms with one or more presenter ...
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has published the evaluation report from a GATEWAY demonstration in New York City's Central Park, conducted in collaboration with The Climate Group and the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT). LED post-top luminaires from five different manufacturers were installed along paved walking trails and ...
The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International launched the Lighting Energy Efficiency in Parking (LEEP) Campaign in September to encourage commercial building owners and managers and parking garage/lot owners and managers to save energy and money by using high-efficiency lighting technology in parking lots and structures. BOMA ...
In many of the nation's traffic lights, light-emitting diodes or LEDs with their brighter light and longer life have replaced standard lamps. But knowing when to replace the signal heads has remained a guessing game, says Suzanna Long, assistant professor of engineering management and systems engineering at Missouri University of Science and ...
The US General Services Administration released two reports as part of the Green Proving Ground program, unveiling technologies that reduce energy use in federal buildings and have significant savings potential if widely implemented. The two studies released evaluate plug load controls and an occupant-responsive lighting controls system. GSA ...
The US Department of Energy has released a common cost model for the manufacturing of LED packages. Developed by a DOE working group in response to feedback from previous DOE workshops and roundtables, the Modular LED Cost Model (LEDCOM) provides a simplified method for analyzing the manufacturing costs of an LED package. The model focuses on ...
The Optical Society joined several others in the optics and photonics community in Washington, DC, in September to draw attention to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report Optics & Photonics: Essential Technologies for Our Nation. The report discusses the current state of the optical sciences and their possibilities for the future. A ...