Lightfair 2009 was the coming out party for LED lighting. Lightfair 2010 turned into LEDfair, and by Lightfair 2011 LEDs had gone mainstream. As Bob, Fritz and I headed into Lightfair 2012’s exhibit hall we speculated on what we would see – and how over-the-top LED lighting might have become.
Topics: LED lighting, C&I LED lighting, commercial led lighting, LightFair, LED, Enterprise LED Lighting
Everyone knew Lightfair 2011 was going to be all about LEDs.
Topics: LED lighting, Lightfair 2009, Lightfair 2010, commercial led lighting, LED 2.0, Lightfair 2011, LightFair, industrial led lighting, Enterprise LED Lighting
Tomorrow we’re announcing the publication of our research report Enterprise LED Lighting, distributed with our partners at GreentechMedia.
Topics: LED lighting, C&I lighting, C&I LED lighting, commercial led lighting, industrial led lighting, Digital Lumens, LED retrofit, Enterprise LED Lighting, cold storage
Attendees witnessed a dramatic shift at this week’s Lightfair 2010, the lighting industry’s most visible, 20th annual conference and tradeshow – LED’s have become the dominant lighting technology in virtually every session, presentation and vendor booth. Goodbye fluorescent, halogen, high intensity discharge, induction, you’re all passe’, OLEDs your time will come….
While Lightfair 2009 was a coming out party for LED’s, this year EVERY possible lighting application, from 2 watt dimmable candelabras to 200 watt street lighting, was on display. LED chip performance has increased another 30% since last year and manufacturers have seen the proverbial light. UL’s engineering teams are now overwhelmed with the volume of pending new applications they need to review.
Topics: LED lighting, LM79, Lightfair 2010, commercial led lighting, SSL, LightFair, LM80, L70, industrial led lighting
Now that Digital Lumens (DL) is out of stealth mode it makes sense for us to start covering some of our learnings with LED high wattage applications.
Beginning last year we conducted a series of DL test trials with our customers. Recently we exhibited at the IARW show as a “coming out” party, showing both the now shipping DL system and a short video from our first large installation at a yet-to-be-announced freezer cold storage facility.
Prior to our DL tests we had learned that operating managers had three general concerns about LED high wattage applications – (1) light level performance, (2) cost and (3) glare.
Digging into each….
Topics: Energy Efficiency, LED lighting, commercial led lighting, industrial led lighting, Digital Lumens, cold storage
In 2006 Groom Energy engineers began testing the latest general illumination LED fixtures with our early adopter customers. Our demonstrations proved that these products were still too expensive, couldn’t produce enough foot-candles and had no track record to support their 100,000 hour operating life claims. More importantly, none of the them took advantage of what LEDs do best – intelligent control.
Topics: LED lighting, commercial led lighting, industrial led lighting, Digital Lumens, venture capital, High Bay LED lighting, Flybridge Capital, Groom Energy, GroomLED, Stata Venture Partners, Black Coral Capital
Groom Energy hosted a webinar on May 21st entitled “Trends and Best Practices using LED light sources in Commercial, Industrial and Outdoor applications.” This event was driven from the many conversations, questions and engagements we have had with our commercial and industrial customers, like, “are LED’s the answer for my industrial application?” “How soon until LEDs will be competitive with fluorescent light sources?” ” Which applications have been successful and which have not, and why?”….. we attempted to answer a few of these questions using this broad forum and maybe to provide clarity to some of the claims from providers.
Topics: Energy Efficiency, LED lighting, commercial led lighting, LED fixtures, industrial led lighting, LED
Register here for our webinar on LED Lighting presented by Groom Energy and Greentech Media!
Topics: LED lighting, commercial led lighting, industrial led lighting, LED, LED fixture, Lighting
Between meetings with a few Groom Energy customers and partners, Bob, Fritz and I had the chance to walk the Javits Center/NYC for Lightfair the last few days. Lightfair is the US’s annual lighting show which hosts loads of lighting designers, architects, vendors, engineers and folks looking for free trinkets – the show alternates between NYC and Las Vegas each May so this year our commute from Boston and Chicago was a little easier. A couple thoughts and observations…..
Topics: LED lighting, Lightfair 2009, commercial led lighting, CREE, LightFair, induction lighting, industrial led lighting
