Introduction – The Next Evolution Part I – Connected Lighting Part II – Embedded Lighting Part III – Sustainable Lighting Circular Economy — What goes around comes around. The “circular economy” is a movement to stop the industrialized world’s bad habit of … Continue reading the next evolution of lighting: sustainable lighting
In the October 2013 issue of LEDs Magazine, Maury Wright authored a piece titled “LED modules advance in performance, standardization questions persist”, in which Maury reviews the reasoning behind and the current status of various LED modules, including the impact of … Continue reading LEDs Magazine: LED modules advance in performance
In a recent issue of LEDsMagazine, an excellent pro-Zhaga piece written by Philips’ very own Menno Treffers, who is the General Secretary of the Consortium. Menno is the Senior Director of Standardization at Philips, and not just specifically lighting (he also is … Continue reading zhaga – LEDsMagazine
From 24° Studio, the same New York architects that created the beautiful “Hope Tree” installation I posted a couple years ago, another gorgeous temporary installation using paper modules with internal lighting called “Daphne“. This is a terrific example of what architectural lighting should … Continue reading 24° studio – daphne
OSRAM had an impressive booth this year. Maybe Siemens is really crackin’ the whip for OSRAM’s impending public offering, but their booth really had an energy and some sort of raison d’etre that seemed lacking in their booth at Light + … Continue reading l+b: OSRAM
Tridonic, the components division of Zumtobel, launched a couple notable products at Light + Building. They showed a unique LED linear module for direct/indirect lighting. Looks like an edge-lit glass arrangement with the LEDs running along the perimeter. They also … Continue reading l+b: Tridonic
Panasonic and its acquired Vossloh-Schwabe division had a very strong component and module showing at Light + Building. Two products especially caught my eye, a linear Zhaga compliant module and a socketed OLED module. Panasonic and VS were showing a … Continue reading l+b: Panasonic & Vossloh Schwabe
It looks like my industry colleagues in the Zhaga Consortium have made significant progress (see also my previous post “gaga for Zhaga” back in 2010). The Zhaga group has started it’s official promotional activities, including adding significant content to its website (including the new official … Continue reading zhaga’s debutante ball
In the realm of plain ol’ white light, there is a desperate need in the industry for basic standardization of LED lamp modules. This would be akin to ye olde Edison screw base…but the 2010 version. Without such standardization, the adoption rate of LED technology for general illumination will be stifled. Who wants to install expensive fixtures that use flavor-of-the-month LED technologies, custom circuit boards and drivers, non standard geometries, and “disposable” non-relampable fixture designs. Most specifiers that I’ve spoken with certainly don’t want to…and that is why you are not seeing many projects using LEDs for general illumination, even though the LEDs … Continue reading gaga for zhaga
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