2014年9月29日星期一

What is really exciting is that more contracts are coming

One contract, with Woodstone Energy, is to upgrade the lighting at a large Fortune 50 manufacturing facility which will involve the retrofit and replacement of several thousand fixtures. The other two contracts are with large National Energy Services Companies ("ESCOs"); one to upgrade a community college and the other encompasses the upgrade of several county government buildings in the Southeast. In all three of these contracts, SRC has already audited the existing facilities, inventoried their lighting systems, proposed an improved design and will now procure the materials and oversee the installations. All three contracts are expected to be completed before the end of the year.

Rob Wilson, VP of SRC, commented, "We have established ourselves as a premier lighting design and retrofit firm. That combined with our positive relationship with Woodstone Energy and other ESCOs is clearly giving us a competitive advantage in securing these contracts."

What is really exciting is that more contracts are coming. Our engineered sales proposal pipeline continues to grow. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act stimulus money is beginning to trickle into the market and finding its way into lighting upgrade projects. As a result, we are receiving more requests for lighting upgrade proposals, most of which are coming from the public sector."

The LED-Downlight E8 offers highest quality white light, individually tuneable from warm white (2700 Kelvin) up to cool white (6500 Kelvin) thus allowing customised adjustments from "Morning Sun" to "Moonlight" and up to "Firelight" with a Colour Rendering Index (CRI) of 90. The E8 offers a comparable performance at 12W to 75W Halogen Lamps or 26W Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL), energy savings of up to 83% and a long lifetime of up to 35,000 hours.

the same mounting locations and sizes

Optrex LED-backlit LCDs offer numerous advantages over conventional CCFL-backlit LCDs, including no warm-up time at low temperatures, lower power consumption, higher dimming ratios and, because they do not require high-voltage and high-frequency inverter circuits, significantly reduced electro-magnetic interference (EMI). And since LED backlights contain no mercury, these displays offer a more environmentally friendly option as well.

These displays also offer Optrex’s Natural Color Matrix (NCM) technology, a patented color transformation algorithm implemented in the hardware that provides real-time on-the-fly processing to precisely match the colors specified in a data source for exceptionally vivid color reproduction. Additional features include industrial standard CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) and LVDS (low-voltage differential signaling) interfaces for easy system development.

To ease the customer’s transition from CCFL-backlit displays, many of the new LED-backlit displays have the same mounting locations and sizes, saving on re-design and development costs. Each of the new panels are compatible with Optrex’s conventional CCFL-backlit TFT LCDs of the same size and resolution. The LED backlight rails are also field replaceable.

2014年9月28日星期日

emphasizing lighting effects and LED lighting features

After seven months of intense competition, the first Cree Cup - Creative LED Lighting Design Contest for China university students jointly organized by the China Association of Lighting Industry (CALI) and Cree, Inc. has ended, culminating in an award ceremony held at the China led highbay light Technology and Application Forum. Finalist works were showcased in the “China Hotel Lighting Exhibition.”

Nearly 1,000 students, representing approximately 100 universities in China, submitted hundreds of design entries. Fifty designs were chosen for the final round of judging. Winners were chosen based on the following criteria: creativity, practicality, marketability, LED performance, artistic quality and energy efficiency. The judging panel consisted of LED industry experts, scholars and industrial design/lighting application experts. First prize, including RMB 20,000 (approximately US$3,000), was awarded to Huang Jiongzhang, Du Weizheng and Ni Yujun from Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University. Titled “Lighting to Share,” the design uses a magnetic effect to form different lighting modes, emphasizing lighting effects and LED lighting features.

Second place prizes, including RMB 10,000 each, were given to Jiang Lin, Liu Yanliang, Chen Shan and Zhenma Quzong from Tibet University and Gu Weiwei from Tongji University. The design work from Tibet University, “Solar LED Multi-Functional Butter Lamp,” combines LED lighting and solar energy with traditional Tibetan lamp design, and includes integrated features like cell phone charging. “Guang Ling,” designed by Gu Weiwei, is portable, and uses sound control and LED features to meet the needs of the deaf or those hard of hearing.

2014年9月24日星期三

the signage industry and for the design of LED luminaires

In addition to existing partners from optics, thermal management and electronics (OTE), the LED Light for you (LLFY) network now includes system integrators. As the professional link between customers and OTE specialists, they are the contacts for customers and at the same time the coordinators for OTE specialists. Depending on the particular requirements, they bring experts together from all three sectors and if necessary offer support for end users at all stages up to the successful completion of their projects.

The concept of system integrators makes it easier for end users to use pioneering LED technology for various lighting solutions. As the “one face to the customer”, system integrators are the interface between the customer and the application. They focus specifically on customer requirements and bring together the appropriate partners from the optics, thermal management and electronics sectors to achieve the desired results. If requested to do so, they will also coordinate all the activities necessary for the successful completion of a project. “The network therefore offers a complete solution from a single source for various target groups such as architects, luminaire manufacturers and anyone interested in LED technology”, said Sebastian Lyschick, LLFY Project Manager at YAHAM Opto Semiconductors. “As a link between LED users and specialists from the OTE sectors, the system integrator can coordinate entire projects or various aspects of such projects.”

Specialist system integrators are available for a wide variety of lighting solutions, such as those for architectural applications, for applications in the signage industry and for the design of LED luminaires. In the architectural sector for example, it is lighting planners who take on this role. At present, there are 13 system integrators among around 80 partners currently active throughout the world.