Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have assessed various indoor occupancy sensors for connected lighting applications, providing recommendations on performance...
The US Environmental Protection Agency has added Energy Star provisions for SSL products that include USB charging ports and for emergency-oriented products with integrated batteries...
The US DOE has tested LED drivers in a stressed environment for as long as 7500 hours; and while there have been failures, the accelerated stress testing is said by the researchers...
Dedicated meters and add-on subsystems for smartphones can provide lighting designers and specifiers with a convenient means of evaluating flicker in the field, but the effectiveness...
The US Department of Energy published a “round 2” update of its research stress testing OLED panels, seeking to understand degradation pathways and the report details performance...
The Zhaga Consortium and the IoT-Ready Alliance are combining their efforts to establish a standard for luminaire connectivity under the Zhaga program, while LightingEurope names...
![An installer uses a cell phone to configure a connected lighting system in a Next Generation Lighting Systems (NGLS) living lab. [Photo credit: Image courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and NGLS.]](https://img.ledsmagazine.com/files/base/ebm/leds/image/2020/06/NGLS_Photo_2.5ed693de53fa2.png?auto=format,compress&fit=fill&fill-color=white&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250 "An installer uses a cell phone to configure a connected lighting system in a Next Generation Lighting Systems (NGLS) living lab. [Photo credit: Image courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and NGLS.]")
