LED Lighting for a brighter future!

Shuji Nakamura is talking up the future Li-Fi. Photo by Russell Abraham for Soraa. Laser lighting is currently being used in cars, but the technology is not cheap, something that is set to hold back the product's commercialisation.  Shuji Nakamura, the man who won the Nobel Prize for inventing the blue LED, has named Li-Fi as crucial to the future of lighting technology. Speaking at Academia Sinica, in Taipei, Dr. Nakamura stated that LED has now reached a ‘stage of maturity’ and manufacturers are seeking out new markets where they can thrive into the future. Nakamura named Li-Fi and laser lighting as two crucial areas the LED industry needs to concentrate on in order to further their businesses successfully. The Nobel Laureate also stated in his lecture that there has been areas in which the advancement of LED has surpassed even his expectations. For example, researchers in Taipei have recently begun using LEDs to separate malignant cancer cells from...

As Philips announces they are investing in Li-Fi, this week we explore a new technology that has the ability to change the world. What is Li-Fi and how will revolutionise the way we receive the internet into our homes? Lux Today 21 February 2017

The smart city revolution shows no signs of slowing down, and the opportunities for the lighting industry are ripe for the taking. In the run up to Lux’s Lighting Fixture Design Conference, which will run from the 21 to the 22nd of February in Central London, they reveal their top five smart cites, where lighting is allowing city authorities to reimagine how our population centres are managed. 5) Los Angeles Los Angeles is currently seeing through a plan to replace every old sodium-vapour streetlight with smart LED fixtures. The city is now 80 percent of the way through the project, which has seen the conversion of nearly 200,000 street lights. The project has saved the city over nine million dollars and has acted to reduce crime. The existing streetlight poles are being replaced with ‘smartpoles’, which are fitted with 4G LTE wireless technology and act to improve phone reception in the tightly packed city. The smart street lights are also capable of alerting city autho...

The LED revolution has concluded, prices are falling and the industry's attention is turning to the digital world, to the internet of things and smart cities. In a Lux Today special edition, we examine smart cities and ask how is lighting improving our urban environments? Why are more and more cities adopting smart technology? And why does the lighting industry need to move quickly to take advantage of this new innovation?

In France's Carrefour supermarket, visible light communication is used to transmit information to visitor's smartphones. Philips appears to be particularly interested in Luciom’s potential to improve Li-Fi in several ways, including speed, coding, decoding, and reliability. Lux reveals that Philips Lighting, in a surprise move, is set to invest in Li-Fi, news that will bring credibility to the fledgling technology. The development is the latest leap forward in the up-hill gallop that is the progression of Li-Fi, and is a move that will no-doubt raise the profile of the new technology, by rolling it out onto a bigger stage.   The first live demonstration of Li-Fi in front of an audience was given just a few weeks ago at LuxLive in London. Recently though, the technology's forward momentum seems to have slowed down a little, with limited pilot implementations and demos from vendors such as Scotland’s pureLi-Fi and others, being the only eviden...

Will tunable street light breakthrough silence LED critics? PLUS: Smart street lights tell cities when to salt frozen roads. AND: LED protest signs take centre stage at demonstrations. Lux Today 7 February 2017.

The new ruling means that all new buildings will have to feature LED lighting. Fitting Philips 'Dubai Lamp', will be made the basic requirement for getting a Building Completion Certificate in Dubai. Philips struck up a good deal!.. All new buildings in Dubai will soon be compelled by law to install specific LED lamps, the municipality has ruled, after striking a deal with Philips Lighting to supply millions of light sources to the emirate. Authorities in Dubai signed a five-year contract with Philips to create the ‘Dubai Lamp’, which, it it is claimed, will be the first commercially available 200 lumen per Watt LED lamp. The new fixtures will replace 80 percent of traditional lights currently in the emirate's residential buildings, and, as of this year, all new buildings constructed in the city will have have to feature the Philips LED. Fitting LED in new buildings will be made the basic requ...

Pioneering smart-lighting revolutionises European city. PLUS: President Obama gives Detroit an LED parting gift. AND: Australia launches free LED luminaire scheme. Lux 31 January 2017