It is a very sad and tragic coincidence that in two major cities where we have our employees and customers—Macau, in the People’s Republic of China, and Houston, Texas—tragedy struck within a few days of each other.

Typically, as we head into the summer months, we see a little bit of a slowdown. People are packing up and heading for adventure or a little downtime, product announcements and business moves become fewer, and new developments are slower to come into focus.

Feilo Sylvania is upping its smart lighting game, launching a technology integration program designed to mix and match different luminaires, sensors, chipsets, and other components from information technology partners, from smart lighting startups, and from its own lighting portfolio, LEDs Magazine has learned.

Lucent Lighting’s miniature downlight range, Micro 40, has been shortlisted in the best architectural lighting products category at this year’s Darc Awards.

For more than 10 years now Green Lodging News has been tracking the activities of state, regional and local green lodging certification/designation/recognition programs.

In recent years, lighting manufacturers and developers have moved away from traditional light sources and to LED-based solid-state lighting (SSL) technology.

As we covered last week, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) delivered the long-anticipated Bluetooth Mesh standard last week formalizing support for mesh-based networks, including lighting-centric applications that combine LEDs and connectivity.

Smart lighting and the Internet of Things (IoT) may have been the most prevalent theme at LightFair International (LFI), but tunable-white LED technology was close behind and of course inherently requires some form of lighting controls to set color and intensity.

The program for the Horticultural Lighting Conference Europe has been set and the event looms next week on May 23 at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The event is approaching sellout status for attendees, so if you still want to attend, act fast because the venue has a hard capacity limit.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a new Caliper Snapshot on LED downlights that documents mean efficacy improvement of only 1 lm/W in the past 15 months.

On Mar. 1, 2017 in Anaheim, CA, LEDs Magazine announced the winners in the 2017 Sapphire Awards program with a Gala taking place coincident with the Strategies in Light trade show.

To coincide with World Day Against Trafficking in Persons late last month, Shiva Hotels has launched industry-leading measures to tackle modern slavery and raise awareness of the issue across its portfolio of hotels, which include prestigious hotels like Kingsway Hall Hotel in Covent Garden, as well as others in Waterloo and Heathrow.

The restaurant business is a unique field. Almost every job that is done there is something we all do at home on a daily basis.

Lumileds has announced an extension of its Luxeon Stylist LED technology to a range of components that will be supplied in mid-power packages.

Osram has announced new Smartrix modules that integrate LEDs, driver electronics, and a custom silicone lens in a compact form factor that enables advanced solid-state lighting (SSL) headlamp systems for automobiles.

Swedish horticultural LED luminaire specialist Heliospectra has supplied a greenhouse grower of lettuce, herbs, and other greens located in Washington State, with the greenhouse operation realizing a 25% increase in business attributable to the solid-state lighting (SSL).

Carmaker BMW is kicking the tires on a smart lighting system for showrooms that would dynamically change settings to draw attention to different models and features.

Chefs become farmers, eggs are more edible than ever, the drinks of the ‘20s roar again.

Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) recently thanked the National Park Service (NPS) for reversing its December 2011 ban on bottled water in national parks.

We recently had the pleasure of hosting a webcast with Cisco’s Luis Suau, technical leader of the Industries Product Group, who schooled us on smart buildings and how lighting and controls instill intelligence as a central point for such systems.