LED Professional Review - LED professional Review (LpR) - Issue 53

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Trends & Technologies for Future Lighting Solutions

Research: Hybrid LEDs Trends: Embedded Lighting Technology: Light Flicker Tech-Talks BREGENZ: Wolfgang Nemitz

ISSN 1993-890X

Review

Jan/Feb 2016 | Issue

LpR

53

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EDITORIAL

Re-Invented Lighting Today, many business areas are influenced by our digital and internet-based world. Lighting seems to be triggered and affected the most because it reflects social changes, new ways of living and working, new views on architecture and design, the world of internetization, digitalization, sensing, control and wireless communication, the latest technologies, new power transmission opportunities, new business and has to reflect the needs of stakeholders, market players and organizations. But do we really need to re-invent light? The simple answer is YES. The more difficult question to answer is how to cope with all of these factors to transform a business into a success model. It is a challenging, fascinating and exciting task. We have to think completely OUTSIDE THE BOX and re-invent lighting - a great intention for 2016!

This year’s first LpR issue is dedicated to light quality, human centric lighting and environmental issues in solid-state lighting. It will be distributed at the LED Tech Expo (Moscow, RU), the LED Taiwan, TILS (Taipei, TW), and at the Light + Building (Frankfurt, DE) in March 2016, where the LED professional team will be present at their own booth in hall 4 for the whole week.

Ed van den Kieboom covers the commentary with thoughts around the traditional Form Follows Function design cliché and how design and controls have to be seen under a “new light”.

LED professional had the chance to interview DI Wolfgang Nemitz, the winner of the LED professional Scientific Award, during his visit to the LpS 2015. He talked about his findings the fact that the temperature of the LED surface is just a part of a set of thermal parameters that are required to analyze an LED, and which parameters are more critical for the design and for the prediction of the quality of an LED system.

Dr. Pranciškus Vitta from Vilnius University presents a human-centric lighting study to find the best lighting conditions for outdoor lighting, by a qualitative validation of the Kruithof hypothesis.

Researchers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, led by Dr. Rubén D. Costa, propose White Hybrid LEDs as an alternative solution to eliminate the drawbacks of LEDs with inorganic phosphors that are costly, not optimized for all bandwidths and show problems with recycling.

Brad Koerner from Philips Lighting presents their view of embedded lighting for modern architectural projects. The integration of LEDs and OLEDs into objects is one of the really important trends for the next years. What are the challenges and opportunities when ceilings and objects light up rooms and environments?

Prof. Georges Zissis and his team at the Laplace University of Toulouse investigated the fundamentals for flicker in lighting. They explained how to measure flicker and their results according to valid standards. Finally, a study from Luminit LLC presents the role of special optics in human centric lighting and for architectural applications.

With these articles in our first 2016 issue we want to start triggering the re-thinking process of lighting systems. A lot of new ideas and concepts can be found in this LED professional Review issue. Please let us know if you have any other ideas, concepts, technologies, products or projects that will help us to transfer light into another dimension.

Yours Sincerely,

Siegfried Luger

CEO, Luger Research e.U. Publisher, LED professional Event Director, LpS 2015

PS: Don’t forget to submit your paper or workshop idea for the LpS 2016 on or before February 19th. Please submit your paper at: www.LpS2016.com/cfp

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