Hubbell Expands LED Floodlight Product Portfolio

Hubbell Lighting, a world leader in lighting innovation, announced today the release of two new LED floodlights from Hubbell Outdoor Lighting—the FLL and FXL. The two high lumen output fixtures round out a versatile floodlight offering for office buildings, facades, safety/ security and other applications.

Delivering excellent uniformity and shielding options, both floodlights feature vented housings designed to isolate the LED module from the driver maximizing product life and performance. Constructed with a heavy-duty steel yoke with adjustable stainless steel hardware, both floodlights are listed to UL1598 for use in wet locations and are DLC qualified. Additionally, the flat surface tempered glass lens protects the LEDs and allows for quick and easy cleaning and debris removal.

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Maximizing Dimming Success at the Burden Museum

DOE has revised its October 2013 report, Dimming LEDs with Phase-Cut Dimmers: The Specifier’s Process for Maximizing Success, to include updated information about the installation of LED lighting and controls at the Burden Museum in Troy, NY, a GATEWAY project that was still in construction when the original report was published.

Because of project delays, the lighting designer rechecked the 18-month-old specifications just before the electrical contractor ordered the lighting for the museum. Because several LED products had been discontinued or changed chip generation or driver design, some product makes and models had to be changed, which affected either the type of compatible dimmer or the number of lamps or luminaires that could be dimmed on a single dimming zone. Fortunately, the controls manufacturer worked closely with the lighting designer and electrical engineer to ensure full compatibility on all of the dimming circuits.

The lighting and controls were installed at the museum in early 2014. The end result was that the process for checking LED product compatibility with phase-cut dimmers specified for each dimming zone worked very well. Although it added time to the design process, with a recheck and adjustments to the dimming specifications just before bidding and ordering products, none of the dimming circuits produced erratic or unexpected behavior once installed.

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‘Smart’ Lighting System Provides Surveillance at U.S. Airport

Newark Liberty International Airport won’t discuss the lighting system’s full capabilities, but CBC’s David Common reports that it can monitor licence plates of cars entering the departure area or the parking lots. (David Common/CBC)

From the runway at Newark Liberty International Airport, you can see the entire skyline of Manhattan. It is one of the busiest airports on the continent, so you’d expect it would have a strong and sizeable surveillance operation. But forget about traditional security cameras. Passengers streaming out of taxis and through check-in are being watched by the lighting system. The airport has installed 171 “smart” LED lighting fixtures, attached to the ceiling, that peer down and record the movements of passengers and staff.

They’re incredible pieces of technology: Sure they illuminate, and use much less energy than other lights. But each lighting fixture also has computing and networking capabilities. The system includes cameras and sensors that feed data into it. The airport won’t discuss the system’s full capabilities, but we know it can monitor licence plates of cars entering the departure area or the parking lots. If a person walks between cars, rather than from a car to the terminal, the lighting system generates an alert. This could be a sign of someone stealing from cars, rather than a legitimate passenger.

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NEMA Launches New ANSI-accredited Lighting Systems Committee

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) announces the launch of ASC 137 Lighting Systems Committee. This committee has received approval from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Executive Standards Council as an Accredited Standards Committee (ASC). This approval is the culmination of a multi-month process and will allow the committee to write American National Standards within its scope.

According to NEMA President and CEO Kevin Cosgriff, the launch of this committee puts NEMA at the forefront of efforts for development of codes and standards for lighting systems technologies. ASC 137 will develop and approve standards under its defined scope:

To develop standards and specifications for indoor and outdoor lighting systems installed in an application with consideration of human health and comfort, personal security, the physical environment, energy consumption and daylight integration. Such a system includes components (e.g., luminaires, sensors/controllers, and windows or skylights) and associated software designed to minimize energy use while maintaining lighting quality, and that may be interconnected to provide control, monitoring functions, and interface with related systems.

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New Mean Well Driver Dims LED Light with a Standard Light Switch

ADM Instrument Engineering introduces a new range of low cost power supplies from Mean Well that can be used to dim LED lights with a standard light switch.

The new Mean Well PLM-40 series LED power supply is a low cost LED driver set to revolutionise the domestic and commercial retrofit market with its unique built-in 3-step analogue dimming function turning a simple light switch into a dimmer.

The simple installation involves connecting the AC from the light switch to the input terminal blocks on the PLM-40 and the LED light fitting to the DC output terminal blocks. When the light is turned on at the wall switch, there will be 100% light output. The switch is then turned off and on again within 2.5 seconds to dim the light to 40% output; a repeat action will dim the light to 10% output

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LED Industrial Lighting Market: CAGR of 29.64% by 2018

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the Global LED Industrial Lighting Market 2014-2018 report to their offerings. The market will grow at a CAGR of 29.64% to 2018.

An LED is a semiconductor diode that emits visible light when voltage is applied to it. A diode is an electronic component that allows electricity to flow solely in one direction. LEDs were initially used as indicators in different applications. Later, they were used to display numbers on electronic meters and sign boards. Currently, LEDs have penetrated nearly every application that makes use of lighting systems. The control users have over LEDs in terms of luminescence and power consumption has made them popular for industrial applications.

One of the emergiong trends in the market is the decreasing ASP of LED light bulbs, which has led to their wider adoption in lighting applications. LEDs have become the most flexible technology that can use lighting control systems, thus increasing the potential for savings.

According to the report, the need for energy-efficient lighting solutions is one of the key drivers in the market. Increased concern over the depletion of non-renewable sources of power and the need to minimize power consumption are driving the demand for LEDs in industrial facilities.

Further, the report states that the limited thermal tolerance of LEDs is one of the major challenges. When LED bulbs are subjected to the high-temperature environment in industrial applications, there is not only degradation in their power efficiency, but also a shortening of their life span.

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NEMA Lighting Standard Recommended in Revised DOE Report

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) revised its October 2013 report, Dimming LEDs with Phase-Cut Dimmers: The Specifier’s Process for Maximizing Success, to include a recommendation of a National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) lighting standard, NEMA SSL 7A-2013 Phase Cut Dimming for Solid State Lighting: Basic Compatibility.

DOE’s report specifies that for wall-box installation, a NEMA SSL 7A-compliant dimmer be used with compliant LED (light-emitting diodes) sources. Pairing these products guarantees a level of compatibility and ensures the dimmer will not negate the dimming claims of the lamp or luminaire.

According to NEMA President and CEO Kevin J. Cosgriff, this is an example of proactive partnering between business and regulators.

“Our job, as an association representing manufacturers, is to ensure that their products are met with a positive regulatory environment. We are pleased that DOE recommends using SSL 7A,” he said. 

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ZigBee Certified Products Surpass 1,000

– Continual growth in ZigBee Certified products signals the growing demand for the Internet of Things

SAN RAMON, California, Aug. 27, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — The ZigBee Alliance, a global ecosystem of organizations creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, commercial and consumer applications, today announced that there are now more than 1,000 ZigBee Certified products available to the market, demonstrating the rising demand for the Internet of Things.

ZigBee standards have been implemented in products developed by more than 400 global manufacturers. The rising number of Alliance members and ZigBee Certified products is a reflection of market demand. In fact, analysts from Research and Markets have forecasted that the global ZigBee enabled devices market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of more than 67 percent from 2014-2018.

The ZigBee Certified program ensures that quality, interoperable ZigBee products are available for product manufacturers and their customers. The program focuses on two areas, the ZigBee Compliant Platform program and the ZigBee Certified Product program. The ZigBee Compliant Platform program evaluates all platforms before they can be engineered into products, including testing for compliance to a ZigBee specification. The ZigBee Certified Product program tests any product using an Alliance-developed standard, ensuring that the product is fully compliant to the standard. To learn more about the ZigBee Certified program, visit: http://www.zigbee.org/Certification.aspx

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Specifying LED luminaires

LEDs have taken our industry by storm, changing the way we light spaces and use luminaires. Sorting through the hype to find the facts can often be a challenge. Manufacturers and vendors tout their product as being the best in the industry, throw out buzz words like “L70” and “TM-21,” and claim to have products that last 50,000 to 100,000 hours. Beneath the flash and glitz of a lighting product showcase and the rousing testimonies of salespersons are technical and economic factors that can be used to make logical decisions when specifying LED luminaires.

Key aspects of specification

To date there are few standards that dictate the specific lumen output, energy use (efficacy), distribution, and color rendering of LEDs. Each luminaire manufacturer uses its own special blend of LED modules. The Zhaga Consortium has attempted to create a series of standards that LED luminaire manufacturers can use to have interchangeable LED modules, but only a small percentage of LED luminaires are following these standards. When selecting LED luminaires for a project there are a series of steps that can be followed to help weed out the bad products from the good, along with several factors to consider when specifying LED luminaires.

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Citrus Packers Hear Benefits of Ultraviolet Light

FORT PIERCE | University of Florida researcher Kevin Folta has shown the light on improving food safety for fresh Florida citrus.

Folta’s research shows ultraviolet light can effectively kill harmful microorganisms on the peel during processing in the packinghouse.

“It would be tremendously beneficial to treat produce with germicidal light,” Folta told more than 100 citrus growers and packinghouse executives at the 53rd annual Citrus Packinghouse Day at the Indian River Research and Education Center in Fort Pierce. “It’s known to kill harmful organisms by damaging their DNA.”

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