The emergence of LED lighting is helping to promote more sophisticated lighting control technologies.
Replacing existing lighting with LEDs can save between 50% and 90% of lighting energy costs.
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Nerkowski, who runs lighting designer and wholesaler Holiday Lighting Inc. in Ubly, Mich.
Just as HDTV provided viewers with a new television experience, LED lighting provides an enhanced lighting experience.
Today, high-intensity discharge (HID) lighting is the primary technology used for lighting streets, parking lots and other outdoor areas.
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Kill the fluorescent lighting in favor of softer, more ambient lighting, Foss adds.
Lutron Electronics, from Pennsylvania, designs lighting systems that allow customers to manage many different lighting sources from a single control.
High cost has thus far limited widespread adoption of LED lighting, which is far more efficient than either incandescent or compact fluorescent lighting.
Nigel Parry, from the Institution of Lighting Engineers, which publishes guidelines for good lighting, says the best security lights are not the brightest.
Almost 20% of global electricity consumption comes from lighting, so shifting lighting to LED technology is a cost-effective way to get change at scale.
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The LED-lighting startup Bridgelux this morning unveiled a deal with a Chevron unit to finance the installation of LED lighting by city governments.
He attributes the initial shift to improvements in street lighting, domestic lighting and a surge in coffee houses - which were sometimes open all night.
The phone detects the kind of lighting in use at the user's location-such as fluorescent, incandescent, and natural lighting-and automatically adjusts the screen's color balance to the optimal setting.
Nikon's Creative Lighting System (CLS) supports advanced wireless lighting and creative flash shooting by controlling flash output independently for a master unit and a remote unit group.
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The transition to LEDs is, literally, as easy as changing a light bulb, provided the LED lighting is compatible with the existing lighting infrastructure in homes and buildings.
Perhaps never before have so many spent so much time and effort debating how we use artificial lighting, and the role of that lighting plays in our lives.
The Climate Group launched LightSavers in 2009, supported by the HSBC Climate Partnership, with the goal to accelerate the market adoption of outdoor LED lighting and smart-lighting controls.
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What is clear is that the infusion of intelligence into historically rudimentary lighting has the potential to disrupt the status quo, while redefining just what lighting can do.
One of the major themes of Earth Week this year was lighting, as green lighting innovations ranging from the useful to the absurd made it onto Inhabitat's radar screen.
It also introduces the ability to program Philips Hue lighting systems with entertainment activities allowing you to adjust the room's lighting as easily as changing the volume of your television.
To get through the application process local astronomers conducted a survey to assess the levels of light pollution, and lighting engineers audited the existing external lighting in the national park.
Homebase says it works "very closely with suppliers and in-store colleagues to ensure that customers are informed about how to reduce light pollution and considerate lighting when they purchase outdoor lighting".
We continue to see pricing pressure due to the weak demand in the China outdoor street lighting market, together with the overcapacity of backlight that has spilled over to the general lighting market.
Dominique Drillot's lighting enhanced Mr. Condo's visual elements beautifully and suggested the participation of the painter's eye as much as the lighting designer's, particularly when compared with Mr. Drillot's work elsewhere on this program.
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To balance against this negative image of alternative or green lighting, LED lighting manufacturers have to reassure the public that their products are easy to use, are affordable and, furthermore, delight the public with new must-have features.
The power of energy efficient lighting is not just in the emerging hardware, but in the software and networking that can maximize that hardware to deliver widespread economic benefit and truly change the way lighting is managed today.
According to Lighting Africa, a joint World Bank - International Finance Corporation program developed to increase access to clean sources of energy for lighting, 589 million people in the continent live without access to a public electricity facility.
With major countries promoting LED lighting, LED lumen efficiency has been improving and the LED lighting prices have come down over the years, making it an affordable alternative and marking a shift from traditional (incandescent and fluorescent) options to LEDs.
In lighting, for instance, we've seen the development of light bulbs that can not only be turned on and off (and dimmed) via WiFi, but also change color -- from companies as diverse as lighting giant Philips and Kickstarter campaigner LIFX.
"Instead of the goopy Baroque or Venetian-style chandeliers with 20 colors, we're now seeing one color with maybe another color added on the details, " said Mr. Fuchs, who has written and illustrated "The Pattern Book of Lighting, " a guidebook to lighting that's out this month.
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