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09-05-2016 Return of incandescent light bulbs as MIT makes them more efficient than LEDs

Ever since the EU restricted sales of traditional incandescent light bulbs, homeowners have complained about the shortcomings of their energy-efficient replacements. The clinical white beam of...

04-02-2016 GE: Say Goodbye to CFLs, Hello to LEDs

Company is phasing out curly compact fluorescents Valentine's Day is just a couple of weeks away, but there's a big split making headlines. "GE is breaking up with compact fluorescent lamps"...

02-02-2016 Focus on smart, innovative technologies

Electricity and electronics are increasingly in everything, even in devices that were purely mechanical before. Not only individual products, but whole companies need to be able to work with each...

29-01-2018 Energy Efficiency: from theory to reality

Increasing the efficiency on how energy is generated and then used, should not remain idle talk. And while measuring is important to know where to improve, factual changes on the ground will make...

29-01-2018 More light for less energy

The lighting sector is undergoing a profound transformation as most countries, seeking to limit increases in their energy consumption, adopt energy-efficient solutions. IEC Technical Committee...

02-02-2016 More creative and safer festive lighting

New lighting solutions, mainly based on LEDs, are changing many aspects of holiday and festive lighting

21-01-2016 The Low Voltage Directive

A Guidance document on the Low Voltage Directive transition from 2006/95/EC to 2014/35/EU is now available on the EU file...

21-01-2016 Human beings and light

Light is life. The first life on Earth developed three billion years ago with the help of the sun. Homo sapiens has been around for about 170,000 years. For much of that time, all he had to dispel...

14-12-2015 New Data Show that the Emergence of a Mass Market for LEDs in Europe Will Occur Several Years Sooner than Originally Predicted

Highly-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) technology can provide quality artificial lighting services at a lower energy cost and with fewer environmental impacts. LED lamps that offer these...

14-12-2015 Plan for 10 billion ultra-efficient LEDs lights up Paris climate summit

Lighting alliance unites Ikea and Philips with India and China in ambitious blueprint for global lighting overhaul

26-10-2015 Graphene light bulb set for shops

22-10-2015 International Light Association (ILA) Advancing Light for Health

06-10-2015 Wi-Fi vs Li-Fi

The tungsten lightbulb has served well over the century or so since it was introduced, but its days are numbered now with the arrival of LED lighting, which consume a tenth of the power of...

12-02-2018 How the Internet of Things will enable ‘smart buildings’

Should a building be self-aware? Roberto de Bonis, a senior researcher at Telecom Italia that presented at the 4th International SMART Conference in Belgium, discussed smart technology and its...

09-01-2018 La tecnología LED lleva la agricultura a la ciudad

La empresa americana AeroFarms ha patentado un sistema de granjas verticales, que cuenta con tecnología LED para que las plantas realicen la fotosíntesis. Esta empresa busca un replanteamiento de...