According to the latest stats from STR, 164,497 guestrooms in 574 hotel projects are underway in the Middle East, while 55,349 guestrooms in 299 projects under way in Africa.

The LEDs Magazine Horticultural Lighting Conference took place on Oct. 17 in Denver, CO, and the event yielded the public debut of a number of new packaged LEDs for the burgeoning application.

Osram has taken a first step toward weaving smart lighting into clothes, announcing workwear that lights up with LEDs, while strongly hinting that interactive apparel is coming including a cycling jacket that illuminates when you hit the brakes, and lights that flash when your pulse rate rises too high.

From 2010 through 2015, U.S. hotels enjoyed above long-run average revenue and profit growth.

As far back as I can remember, lighting controls were always the responsibility of IT experts. Lighting designers and end users were dependent on their skills to program our lighting vision.

Fairbanks Energy Services has documented the energy savings attributed to LED lighting and autonomous controls at a Chappaqua, NY data center at 244,000 kWh in one year of operation.

The value and ROI brands deliver to hotel owners have become more arguable as technology and distribution platforms prove ever more to even the field for those properties absent a flag.

Westin, InterContinental and one of the original owners of Galway's Radisson Blu Hotel & Spa have partnered to acquire the Irish hotel for an undisclosed amount.

In its latest move to transform from a lighting company into a self-described “high-tech” outfit, Osram has acquired a significant minority interest in a Swiss software startup that delivers individualized deals and product information to shoppers' smartphones in malls and retail stores.

High demand growth, the arrival of new global brands and increasing supply in major markets has driven sub-Saharan Africa's hotel sector over the past decade, according to a new report from JLL.

Transportation costs and time are the enemies of getting fresh produce to consumers, and are a significant driving force behind the proliferation of LED-lit vertical farms located near urban population centers.

The US Horticultural Lighting Conference in Denver is just 11 days away, and we’re all gearing up to hear what the latest crop of horticultural science and solid-state lighting (SSL) technology experts has to say.

H.n.h. Hotels & Resorts S.p.A. has partnered with Duetto to implement the its cloud solutions to the 11 H.n.h hotels currently operating in Italy.

LaMar Lighting has introduced Sensa, its new series of round occu-smart fixtures.

Wired lighting infrastructures have a history of providing dependability that, until recently, wireless networks couldn’t match.

As part of its expansion across Africa, Marriott International signed deals to open seven new hotels consisting of 1,300 guestrooms across several new markets.

Osram Opto Semiconductors along with Osram Specialty Lighting has announced the demonstration of the Eviyos automotive LED headlamp module that could be the next advancement in automotive forward lighting beyond shipping adaptive drive beam headlights.

Philips Lighting is taking IoT-based lighting management to a whole new level, opening a computer and network center in India to operate outdoor, office, and architectural lighting for customers around the world, and to draw data from those sites.

W Hotels Worldwide plans to open the W Rome in 2021, marking the first time that the W brand will land in Italy.

The world's largest known deployment of lighting-based indoor positioning is finally going full speed ahead, as US retail giant Target plans to roll out a customer engagement system in nearly half of its 1800 stores by Christmas.