About a dozen startups are working on LEDs and lighting control systems in Silicon Valley. They are looking at energy efficient ways to address the global lighting market which is worth about $100 billion per annum. The solutions range across reducing costs of the LED bulbs to complete precision controlled lighting systems for offices...
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The Chennai City Corporation has conducted successful trials for using LED lamps as streetlights. As a next step, they plan to replace around 2795 streetlights with solar powered LED lamps. The reduced power consumption is expected to bring down the annual energy bill by about Rs. 30 lakhs. Read details here. via The Hindu...
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In the next ten years, market leader Phillips expects 75 percent of its global sales to be in LEDs. Phillips is set to launch solar-powered LED lighting solutions including portable solutions. Though LED lights are at a comparatively high price point of around Rs. 600, the expectation is that the buyer can recover the...
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The Finance Minister in his 2011 budget unveiled on February 28, 2011 has proposed a reduction in excise duty on LED bulbs. This could result in a price band of about Rs. 400 to 500 for an entry level LED light. The uptake of LED light in the Indian market has been slower than...
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The low power consumption and high efficiency levels of LEDs versus traditional automotive lighting such as Xenon and halogen are proving desirable to automotive engineers tasked with reducing CO2 emissions and achieving energy savings from all areas of the vehicle. Front lighting applications that include high-beam, low-beam, daytime running lights (DRLs) and position lights...
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TI India has recently published an updated and comprehensive LED Reference Design Cookbook for the Indian market. The cookbook is designed to provide you with a valuable tool to help you solve your lighting design needs and covers driver solutions for applications such as LED Light Bulb Replacement, LED Down Lighter, LED Tube Light,...
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The call for papers has opened for the next Designing with LEDs Workshop, to be held May 4, at the San Jose Marriott. Hosted by EDN and EE Times, the workshop is dedicated to the technology design aspects of high-brightness LEDs, principally in lighting and illumination. They’re looking for papers on topics such as...
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There is likely to be strong growth in LED lighting over the next three years, resulting in a doubling of the market by 2014, according to a new report. Strategies Unlimited predicted that the global market for LED light fixtures would grow to $8.3 billion (£5.1 billion), up from £3.8 billion in 2010. This...
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Tyco Electronics has opted to target the next generation of LED lights designed from the ground up to exploit the advantages of solid-state lighting. And Tyco, with it new Nevalo lighting system, is betting that a modular approach will prove to be the winning design solution. By concentrating on new lighting wins, the Nevalo...
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Mirc Electronics Ltd, the maker of the Onida brand of consumer durables, has made a foray into the LED lighting space with the Onida and Igo brands. While Onida targets the urban sector (metro and mini metro markets), Igo plans to improve rural penetration. “The opportunity in lighting is immense, in urban as well...
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