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Is Smart Lighting Cost Effective? Part 1
By Stan Walerczyk First of all, let’s define smart lighting. It is efficient lighting with advanced wired or wireless controls. Several end-customers really like the WOW factor and varied benefits…
A Look at Human Centric Lighting: Part 2
By Stan Walerczyk This column discusses more of the Human Centric Lighting (HCL) projects, light as a drug and f.lux. Now that most of the low hanging fruit of T12…
A Look at Human Centric Lighting: Part 1
By Stan Walerczyk Human Centric Lighting (HCL), which can also be called human factors in lighting, biophilia or other terms, is becoming the next big step in lighting. It may…
The Importance of CRI and R9
By Stan Walerczyk Color rendition Index (CRI) and R9, which is red content, are two important factors to select LED and/or incumbent interior products. This can be critical for distributors…
Lighting and the Internet of Things
By Stan Walerczyk This week’s lighting column focuses on how the lighting industry is inexpensively incorporating apps and other tools into lighting products and low priced advanced wired and wireless…
Lighting Controls, Revisited
Stan Walerczyk I was fortunate enough to get some detailed feedback regarding my controls column, Lighting and the Internet of Things. I look forward to even more feedback in the…
The New Work Horse Lamp
By Stan Walerczyk For well over a decade my favorite workhorse lamp has been a 3100 lumen 80 CRI 32W fluorescent F32T8, but now LED lightbars, LED troffer kits or…