Researchers Gabe Arnold and Grace Pennell from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory recently released a white paper titled DC Lighting and Building Microgrids: Opportunities and Recommendations. They conduct an excellent review of the advantages of DC-power (which closely mirrors my … Continue reading PNNL report on DC-powered lighting and microgrids
LumenCache Lighting is an another interesting entrant to the DC-power revolution, focusing on residential lighting applications. LumenCache has developed a solution with a patch-panel style configuration that can accept a variety of driver or control modules – at the panel … Continue reading lumencache lighting
If you’re interested in net-zero energy solutions for commercial or retail facilities, you should consider DC power as the next step. Check out this nicely produced video of my conference presentation and Q&A session at the ISE Smart Building Conference, … Continue reading SBC 2020: The DC-Powered Building – conference video
Frankfurt-based Smartengine is a supplier of Power-over-Ethernet smart building technologies, sensors, lighting and controls. A few team members from wtec approached me after my presentation on DC power at the 2020 Smart Building Conference here in Amsterdam. If I remember … Continue reading smartengine | wtec
Energie IP is a Paris-based startup that is developing a building management system (BMS) based on Power-over-Ethernet technology (PoE). PoE holds promise in architectural projects to accomplish three key objectives: Distribute DC power with inherent IP-connectivity to the thousands of … Continue reading energie IP
Via LEDsMagazine, a very interesting article and video interview between LEDs Magazine Editor-in-Chief Maury Wright and Eaton VP Ken Walma detailing Eaton’s new distributed low-voltage DC power system for LED lighting, which Eaton launched at Lightfair 2016.. Even though Eaton is … Continue reading eaton low voltage lighting system
Igor-Tech is yet another Iowa-based startup launching a Power-over-Ethernet lighting solution. Not much yet in the way of details on their site, but it looks like another commercial office-focused system design. Continue reading igor tech
Innovative Lighting is a startup based in a small town in Iowa that is developing a PoE lighting system they are branding Genisys (Iowa of all places…where my dad goes for antique John Deere meet ups!). I’m impressed by their progress – … Continue reading innovative lighting
Most of the key tech innovations in the lighting industry are coming from outside of the lighting industry. And even though most of the “digital” tech is based on open-standards, some of the most lighting-applicable tech is not common. For … Continue reading microsemi
California-based Numinous is launching NuLEDs, another entrant with a Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) LED lighting system. I say “another” because they remind me very much of the old Redwood Systems and of course, the PoE system Philips Lighting has launched. Continue reading nuleds
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science has awarded three Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants targeting key advances in solid-state lighting (SSL) technology. One of them caught my eye: VoltServer, Inc. won a grant for “Low-Cost, High-Efficiency … Continue reading voltserver
Moodifier is a small UK startup with a nascent range of IP and Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) drivers targeted towards residential applications. So if you’re an EE or “maker” type who wants to hack together your own residential lighting dream system, at least … Continue reading moodifier
