LightFair announced its 32nd annual LightFair Innovation Award® winners for 2021.
The awards highlight the industry’s top innovations introduced during the previous 12 months and celebrate the ingenuity, creativity and resourcefulness of manufacturers, researchers, developers, scientists and designers. In 2021, the innovations and the honor are more significant than ever.
Lighting innovations forged on over the past several months despite difficult and uncertain times. Manufacturers rose to the challenge of bringing timely disinfectant lighting solutions, shape-defying designs, technologies that support healthy circadian rhythms and produce electrifying sports and entertainment experiences, to name a few.
Each year, awards are presented for the following designations:
- Most Innovative Product of the Year Award: Highest award presented recognizing the best new product
- Design Excellence Award: Recognizing outstanding achievement in design and excellence
- Technical Innovation Award: Recognizing the best leap forward in lighting technology
- Judges’ Citation Award: Special recognition at judges’ discretion* (*not awarded in 2021)
An independent panel of judges from the IES and IALD reviewed each submission and selected a Category Winner for each of the 14 categories. Further, they continued to review the top 14 to select the Most Innovative Product of 2021, Technical Innovation Award and Design Excellence Award. Judging criteria included the product’s clarity of purpose, versatility, adaptability, sustainability, ease of use, design efficiency and aspects that enhanced human wellbeing, among others.
This year’s top winners include:
- Technical Innovation Award: Pureedge Lighting
- Design Excellence Award: Edison Price Lighting
- Most Innovative Product of the Year: Pureedge Lighting
Product Category Winners:
- Non-Luminous: Research, Publications, Software and Specialty Hardware — Illuminating Engineering Society (IES)
- Lamps: Conventional, Retrofit and Replacement — Keystone Technologies
- LED/OLED, Chips and Modules — Nichia America Corporation
- Ballasts, Transformers, Drivers, Systems and Kits — Keystone Technologies
- Track, Display, Undercabinet and Shelf — Pureedge Lighting
- Recessed Downlights, Wall Washers and Multiples — Nora Lighting
- Indoor Decorative — Edison Price Lighting
- Parking, Roadway and Area Luminaires — Neri North America, Inc.
- Sports, Step, Landscape, Pool & Fountain Luminaires — Sportsbeams LED Lighting
- Control Components & Hardware — LTF, LLC
- Commercial Indoor: Troffers, Suspended and Surface Mounted — Signify
- Industrial, Germicidal, Vandal, Emergency & Exit — Concealite Life Safety Products
- Dynamic Color, Theatrical, Cove, Strips & Tape — Pureedge Lighting
- Control Enabling Technology, Connectivity & Software — Samsung Electronics