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Courting and Keeping Younger Employees: Moving Up Through t [...]

In this series of articles, tED Magazine explores a problem that continues to plague this industry – finding young people to hire, train and equip to lead this industry. To…

Is Smart Lighting Cost Effective? Part 2

By Stan Walerczyk ‘Features and Benefits’ can be a very useful phrase regarding smart lighting systems. Features are all that it can do, which are usually included in marketing and…

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…

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