NASHVILLE, TN - March 9, 2022 / LEDs Magazine and its parent company, Endeavor Business Media, have launched a new recognition program, the LEDs Magazine BrightStar Awards. Like its predecessor, LEDs Magazine’s Sapphire Awards, the BrightStar Awards aims to recognize ingenuity in commercial product offerings across the LED and solid-state lighting (SSL) supply chain. But it will also reflect the evolving marketplace.
LEDs Magazine editorial director Wanda Lau noted, “A rebranding was in order once we began to look at the breadth of products that had been recognized by the original Sapphire Awards program.”
The BrightStar Awards will honor the Sapphire legacy of recognizing product developments that have advanced LED-centric SSL components, systems, and applications into the mainstream and that have promoted performance and capabilities beyond traditional light sources. Submissions, which must be commercially available, will be evaluated against several criteria, including energy efficiency; improvements to performance or features over previously available products (such as color rendering, luminous efficacy, and spectral power distribution); and their role in advancing emerging applications or existing applications.
Entry categories will range from LED light sources to enabling technologies and finished SSL products across indoor, outdoor, specialty, and other applications beyond general-purpose illumination.
“Going forward, our team wanted to emphasize that recipients’ products are leading the charge as the ‘stars’ of innovation in solid-state lighting, enabling technologies, and systems — and that the future of LEDs remains bright,” Lau said.
A panel of industry experts will review the award submissions and score them from one to five stars. Any product that receives a “high” score of 3.5 stars and above will be recognized with a BrightStar Award.
“In assessing our awards offering, we realized we could streamline the way in which we recognize products that stand out among the industry while continuing to acknowledge incredible work in engineering and finished product design,” group publisher Steve Beyer said.
Jurors will be excluded from reviewing product categories in which their company has submitted an entry.
Visit our BrightStar Awards portal for full submission details and to begin an entry. Early Bird submissions will be accepted through 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on April 15 at a discounted rate of $495. The Standard rate of $595 per entry will apply thereafter until entries close on April 22. Multiple entries from the same submitter are eligible for a $100 discount per entry from both the Early Bird and Standard rates.
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LEDs Magazine’s BrightStar Awards program is focused on recognizing five key factors — performance, reliability, efficiency, ease of integration/use, and innovation — in the design of LED-based lighting products and components, materials, systems, and applications. Visit the BrightStar Awards portal for submission details to begin your entry today.
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