By LEDs Magazine staff
LEDs Magazine is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2022 BrightStar Awards, which the Endeavor Business Media brand launched this year to recognize ingenuity in commercial components, materials, tools, controls, and finished products for LED-based applications. Categories include indoor/outdoor illumination, horticultural lighting, connected lighting, circadian and disinfection lighting, and specialty applications.
A panel of industry experts reviewed each entry submitted to the awards program, assigning it a score from zero to 5 stars. Products receiving an average score of 3.5 stars or higher were named a 2022 BrightStar Award honoree. “In running our past Sapphire Awards program, we surveyed our panelists and close industry contacts who have their pulse on emerging trends and developing applications,” managing editor Carrie Meadows said. “We learned that some felt we might recognize broader strokes of innovation and technology advancement rather than posting one individual winner in each product or application category.”
“In this inaugural year of the BrightStar Awards program, we were pleased by the number of submissions and entrants, both former Sapphire Awards participants and new firms,” editorial director Wanda Lau said. “The jurors’ feedback and scoring showed that the SSL industry has a firm grasp on light and color quality, improved power performance, connectivity, and value-added controls.”
On June 21, the LEDs Magazine team was on-site at LightFair International, in Las Vegas, to present BrightStar Awards trophies to trade show exhibitors and attending companies whose submissions were recognized as honorees by the industry panel.
The following companies and products are recognized as 2022 BrightStar Awards honorees (in alphabetical order by company name and listed with their award category):
- Acuity Brands Lighting, Inc., nLight Snapshot Controller — Connected SSL, Software, and Controls
- Alloy LED, AmpChamp RGB and RGBW Connectors — LED & SSL Components, Design Tools, and Materials
- Alloy LED, PrimaPanel Flexible LED Sheet — LED Light Sources
- ams Osram, OSLON Square Batwing — LED Light Sources
- Axis Lighting, StencilFlex — Indoor SSL
- Cree Lighting, CPY500 Series — Outdoor SSL
- ERP Power, TWM2 — LED Light Sources
- Fluence, Wireless Flex Dimming — Horticultural SSL and Controls Systems
- Glint Lighting, Hero Recessed with LightShift and PureBeam — Indoor SSL
- Hydrel Lighting, SAF1 Floodlight and SAF28 Floodlight — Outdoor SSL
- Innovations in Optics, Inc., LumiSpectra Multispectral LED Illuminator — Specialty SSL System Technologies
- Kenall Manufacturing, EnviroPro IN9 — Indoor SSL
- LEDiL, YASMEEN-70-ZOOM — LED & SSL Components, Design Tools, and Materials
- Lumileds, LUXEON 7070 — LED Light Sources
- Lumileds, LUXEON 5050 HE — LED Light Sources
- Lumileds, LUXEON Rubix and LUXEON 2835 Color Line — LED Light Sources
- Luminis, Bellevue — Outdoor SSL
- Luminis, Scena — Outdoor SSL
- Lumos Controls, Intelligent Lighting Control Ecosystem with AI-Based Video Analytics — Connected SSL, Software, and Controls
- LUXTECH LED Modules, Fingerboard — LED Light Sources
- MetroSpec Technology, FlexRad FacetCore Spline — LED Light Sources
- Nichia Corporation, NVSW219F 1800K 70 CRI — LED Light Sources
- Nichia Corporation, Dynasolis — Circadian Lighting Technologies
- Pharos Architectural Controls, Pharos Cloud — Connected SSL, Software, and Controls
- PureEdge Lighting, 3D Flex Lens — Outdoor SSL
- Starco Lighting Inc., SLGL Tunable Grow Light with Add-on Boosters — Horticultural SSL and Controls Systems
- Summa Systems, Ambient Intelligence System — Connected SSL, Software, and Controls
- Sycra Technologies Limited, IniaSensor SRD3 — Connected SSL, Software, and Controls
- Synapse Wireless, Energy Insights — Connected SSL, Software, and Controls
- TheraLight, TheraLight 360 Plus — Specialty SSL System Technologies
- WAGO Corporation, 221 Inline Splicing Connector — LED & SSL Components, Design Tools, and Materials
*Updated June 30, 2022 with correct category for Nichia Dynasolis. LEDs Magazine regrets the error.
Look for additional coverage of the honorees, complete with product summaries and BrightStar scores, in the July/August issue of LEDs Magazine.
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