LED Lighting
LEDs Lighting the Path Towards Location Based Services
April 27th, 2015Acuity Brands & Sensity Systems team up to accelerate the Internet of Things
March 26th, 2015Acuity Brands Acquires Distech Controls for $252m to Expand Further into Building Automation
Acuity Brands has just acquired Intelligent Building Automation And Energy Management company Distech Controls for $252.8 million. Canadian based Distech has some innovative products to control HVAC, Access Control and Video Surveillance in Buildings; allowing connectivity and analysis of different systems. It generated $55.7m in sales last year, meaning Acuity paid an exit sales multiple […]
Gooee’s Deal with Evrythng is Another Bright Spark for Smart LED Lighting
Gooee, an Internet of Things (IoT) technology business focused on the Smart LED lighting value chain has struck a strategic partnership deal with Evrythng the IoT identity management company. Gooee, set up by Aurora Group founder Andrew Johnson, perhaps unsurprisingly signed their first deal with the Aurora Group and its specialist retail lighting company Microlights. […]
Is Power-Line Communication (PLC) Technology a Viable Alternative to Wireless for Lighting Controls?
A recent visit to Arup’s exhibition “Lighting in the Urban Age” reveals an interesting collaboration between Arup, Echelon and Xicato; which uses PLC to control lighting and not wireless, a route others like Enlighted & Harvard Engineering have already committed to. Lighting is truly at an inflection point; with Smart Lighting lying at the convergence […]
Printed & Organic Electronics will Create Opportunities for Smart Buildings
Printed and organic electronics (POE) are based on the combination of new materials and cost-effective, large-area production processes that open up expansive new fields of application. The technology has the potential to be a game-changer across the board, and the imagination runs wild with the profound implications of POE for the smart buildings industry. Thin, […]
PureLiFi Raises £1.5m for LED Lighting WiFi Killer
According to various sources the Scottish company PureLiFi has raised another £1.5m GBP from investors including London & Scottish Investment Partners, Scottish Investment Bank and Old College Capital and Edinburgh University’s venture investment arm. This means the company, that was founded in 2012, is now valued at £14m. The company are riding the current wave […]
The Internet of Illuminated Things – Li-Fi Offers a Glimpse of the Future of Data Transmission
What if every light bulb in the world could also transmit data? Professor Harald Haas, Chair of Mobile Communications at the University of Edinburgh and co-founder of pureLiFi, is developing a device that could do exactly that. By flickering the light from a single LED, a change too quick for the human eye to detect, […]
The LED Lighting Exodus: Samsung joins Philips and Siemens
Samsung Electronics announced, in late October, that it will exit the LED lighting business outside of South Korea, u-turning on what was identified as a key growth business unit just 4 years ago. The decision is the latest example of a large industrial conglomerate dimming its presence in the modern lighting industry. Analysts suggest new […]
Smart LED Lighting Company Digital Lumens Bags $23m in VC Funding… Whilst Samsung Gets Cold Feet
Digital Lumens, founded in Boston in 2008, just secured another $23m in Series C VC Investment. Investors in this round included Goldman Sachs, Stata Venture Partners, Flybridge Capital Partners, Black Coral Capital, Aster Capital & Nokia Growth Partners. They have now raised a total of $49.3m in 5 funding rounds from 6 Investors. Further details […]
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