According to a new report from Pike Research, a part of Navigant’s Energy Practice, the market for street lighting is in a period of dramatic transformation. New LED options and the advent of networked systems for central monitoring and control are enabling a range of intelligent management and energy savings options. According to the report, ...
Once the lonely crusade of astronomers, the dark-sky movement is finding increasingly vocal support in the lighting community; and is gaining regulatory traction with the sustainability and conservation movements. Plants and animals, including humans, are attuned to the 24-hour seasonal cycle of light and dark that has ruled the planet for ...
An entirely new market category of LED products fueled by compact, highly efficient, rechargeable batteries is “paving the way” for new forms of pedestrian-scale lighting – and more. Today’s lighting-class LEDs require very little power, and the small size and high lumen packages allow new batteries to fit discreetly within all types of ...
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 ...
With the opening of a newly built factory in Tianjin in northern China, the country’s third largest city, the Zumtobel Group is strengthening its presence in the Asian market. The Thorn factory for road and tunnel lighting, which replaces a much smaller lighting factory, covers some 19,000 square meters and includes a production shop, an admin ...
When Lake Nona pursued a vision to line its Southeast Orlando streets with new lighting, the 7000-acre, master-planned community needed to match exacting aesthetic guidelines to leading-edge technology. Community leaders found their answer in GE Lighting’s Evolve LED Contemporary Twin Support Post Top and Evolve LED Roadway fixtures. Combined, ...
19-22 September 2012 Jyvaskyla, Finland Lighting Urban Community International presents the LUCI City under Microscope events to enable participants to discover the lighting strategy of a member city over a 2-day period. They include field visits and technical conferences on permanent and temporary lighting projects. The second City under ...
Sentry Electric, one of North America’s most experienced and knowledgeable manufacturers of outdoor lighting, launched its new website, designed with the user in mind. The new site offers improved navigation, increased site content, and a host of other new features. Users will find Sentry’s new website fresh, clean, and inviting. The look ...
The PLUS (Public Lighting Strategies for Sustainable Urban Spaces) project, which has conducted a detailed analysis of existing urban lighting practices and upcoming projects in the 11 PLUS partner cities across Europe, presented its first conclusions on lighting technology innovations, specifically LEDs as a solution for energy-efficient public ...
Beth Gali, a Catalina-based architect, is taking legal action against the Gulf state of Qatar over the alleged forgery of her ‘Latina’ streetlamp. Gali claims that almost 1000 forged units of the streetlamp, designed by her but manufactured and marketed by Santa & Cole, have been installed on Al Waab Street in Doha, the capital city of ...