Indian researchers claim that commercial buildings with LED lighting could gain energy independence by installing standalone solar-plus-storage systems. They said a 914.4 kW PV system linked to ...

The DesignLights Consortium (DLC) this month finalized a policy aimed at promoting installation of commercial lighting products that advance energy efficiency, drive adoption of controls, support ...

The lighting market offers opportunities in LED adoption, driven by energy efficiency and government incentives. Indoor ...

The U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded $11.5 million to install light emitting diode lighting in parks, police stations, an airport runway, baseball fields and city buildings to promote energy ...

As Light+Building 2026 opens in Frankfurt (March 8–13), European manufacturer LEDSON releases its Catalogue 2026 showcasing next-generation aluminum LED profiles — from 17mm ultra-miniature suspended ...

A revolution in illumination was underway a decade or so ago, as companies, universities, and retailers began swapping out energy-wasting fluorescent and incandescent lamps for super-efficient ...

Why digitizing lighting is important. How PoE-based lighting will improve smart buildings. Designers of smart homes, offices, and factories constantly seek new ways to improve the efficiency of the ...

Buoyed by a surge of high-tech innovations and several years of robust U.S. construction markets, AEC teams are working on ideas for “smart buildings.” Since the mid-1980s, a new generation of ...

Lighting plays a crucial role in architecture: to allow users to see, safely inhabit spaces, and carry out their daily activities. But its power has long exceeded these basic functions, primarily ...

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics was recently awarded to three scientists (Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura) for inventing the blue light-emitting diode (LED) roughly 20 years ago.