Press a button on the wall and a wireless connection tells this LED bulb what to do. Leland Teschler Executive Editor A NEW LED BULB from the furniture maker Ikea of Sweden is called the TRÅDFI. Now available in Europe, it’s expected to hit the U.S. soon. It comes with its own remote controller which […]
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LED bulbs connect to the IoT with Silicon Labs zigbee technology
Chip supplier Silicon Laboratories Inc. in Austin, Tex. says it is providing zigbee technology for the award-winning Element connected light bulb from Sengled Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. Silicon Labs wireless SoCs and zigbee stacks let Element bulbs connect to multi-node mesh networks deployed in smart homes. Using iOS and Android apps or popular smart home ecosystems, […]
Smart street lights get smarter and more efficient with unique LED array
Of the several technologies behind smart cities such as data, infrastructure, IoT devices, it is smart lighting technology that has emerged as the leading smart city application. Energy and operations savings make the business case for smart lighting obvious. Street lighting can consume as much as 40 percent of a city’s energy budget — smart […]
An LED driver that uses a stretchable transistor
One of the bugaboos hampering wearable electronics is the lack of semiconductor and wires that will work despite being stretched out of shape. Now a group of researchers thinks they may have solved the problem using a special technique wherein conductive polymer molecules are confined inside an elastomer. The research is described in the 06 […]
70 Watt Explosion Proof LED Light with an Adjustable Beam Clamp
Larson Electronics, an industrial lighting company, has announced the release of a 70 watt explosion proof LED light fixture mounted on an adjustable beam clamp to simplify mounting on existing beams. The EPL-LP-70W-LED-HDBC-20-EPP beam clamp mounted LED fixture from Larson Electronics is weatherproof and comes with an adjustable aluminum mount that makes it ideal for […]
Here come perovskite LEDs
Engineering researchers at Princeton University say they have developed a technique for making LEDs in which nanoscale perovskite particles self-assemble themselves. The advance, reported Jan. 16 in Nature Photonics, could make perovskites a potential lower-cost alternative to gallium nitride and other materials used in LED manufacturing. Perovskite is better known as a potential replacement for […]
Rittal has set a new standard with the LED compact system light.
With enormous intensity, from 900 to 1200 lumens, the innovative LED light shines into every corner of industrial enclosures, from the roof to the floor. No other enclosure light on the market today delivers up to three times the luminous flux of the next closest competitor. Rittal’s intelligent lighting is tailored to the geometry of […]
LED drivers get Sign Component Manual qualification
LED drivers are listed in the SAM (Sign Component Manual) with evaluation and certification to UL879 standards. The NPF/PWM-40/60-12/24 product series supports both constant voltage and constant current applications, and the PWM series is suitable for powering all kinds of LED strips. Both the NPF and PWM series have IP67 ingress protection ratings for operation […]
LED drivers handle up to 50 W in automotive headlamps
LEDs in automotive front lighting enable energy savings, new light designs and applications such as matrix beam and laser high-beam. Supporting the progress in automotive lighting Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) launched high-power LED drivers specifically designed for automotive front lights. The drivers are available within the new LITIX Power Flex series and the LITIX Power series. They […]
LED delivers more than 2,500 lumens 6mm light emitting surface (LES)
Cree, Inc. introduces the XLamp® XHP50.2 LED, which delivers up to seven percent more lumens and 10 percent higher lumens-per-watt (LPW) than the first generation XHP50 LED in the same 5.0 mm x 5.0 mm package. The new XHP50.2 LED enables lighting manufacturers to quickly improve the performance of existing XHP50 lighting designs. Capable of […]