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ISSUE 81

2015

September

Cover Story
Lady Liberty lights the way with new LED
fixtures provided by Musco Lighting (see
p. 9; courtesy of Musco Lighting).

columns/departments

features
31
35

TEST

49

STANDARDS
IES explores projection method developments
using LM-80 data
Jianzhong Jiao, Osram Opto Semiconductors

65

LEDsmagazine.com

COMMENTARY Maury Wright

NEWS +ANALYSIS

Spectrometer adds dimension to goniometric

characterization of SSL lamps and luminaires
Pasi Manninen and Mikolaj Przybyla, GL Optic

43

59

Connected outdoor lighting will be driven by data

and controls Shonika Vijay

CSP LEDS
CSP LEDs crawl toward delivering on SSL promise
Maury Wright

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STRATEGICALLY SPEAKING

CONFERENCES
SIL Europe co-locates with LuxLive in London for
2015 Bob Steele

Understand both static and transient thermal

management in LED-based developments
Giles Humpston, Cambridge Nanotherm

LEDs brighten freedom monument

on New Yorks historic Ellis Island
Plessey announces silicon-LED
case study, die, and filaments
Ameresco and Acuity behind Washington
State outdoor LED lighting project
Tribute: Recognizing the life and
work of LED pioneer Roland Haitz
LED projectors cast new light on
the historic Citadel of Bonifacio
LEDs & sources: Osram, Cree, Lumileds
Horticultural lighting: Philips
Lighting, Purdue University

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FUNDING + PROGRAMS
DOE reveals Gateway data on LED wall
wash retrofit at performing arts venue
DOE testing of L Prize LED lamp
DOE releases new research
projecting LED lighting adoption

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PoE technology for LED lighting delivers benefits
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DEVELOPER FORUM

CIE should endorse TM-30-15

color metrics post haste

LRC will evaluate adaptive LED

headlamps, studying European Audi A7
IES publishes TM-30 defining new color
metrics for characterizing lighting

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LAST WORD
Market programs and regulations hold
back HCL in the US

Stan Walerczyk, Lighting Wizards

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CIE should endorse TM-30-15 color

metrics post haste

he illuminating Engineering
Society (IES) has published
a Technical Memorandum
(TM-30-15) defining a new pair of
metrics intended to characterize
the color rendition of light sources.
We have a story in this issue on
what could become a new industry standard measure that would
replace CRI (p. 28). I hope the International
Commission on Illumination (CIE) can put
aside its politics, do whats right for the solidstate lighting (SSL) industry, and endorse
TM-30-15.
The issues with CRI are well known and
factions within the lighting sector have
sought to provide a more applicable replacement metric for years. The basic CRI metric uses an unrealistic set of color samples.
It penalizes sources that make rich colors
appear oversaturated even when designers/specifiers sometimes desire such performance. And CRI is simply not a good metric in terms of helping specifiers choose an
LED-based product, or compare products,
for a given application.
LEDs Magazine wholehearted ly
endorsed the Color Quality Scale (CQS)
metric that was considered for adoption

by CIE technical committee (TC) 1-69 in

2012 (http://bit.ly/1MDsnOD). At that link,
you will find comments that suggest several reasons that were in part responsible
for the failure of CQS in the CIE. At the time,
some CIE members asked to respond to my
column, a request that we eagerly granted.
After the CIE column was submitted, the
authors subsequently requested that we
not run the response citing internal disagreements about the issue within the CIE
(http://bit.ly/1hwJRiR).
Why am I rehashing the CQS history? Primarily, Im making the point that TM-30-15
acceptance is far from a sure thing in the
CIE, although I believe the organization
should adopt the work. TM-30-15 is clearly
superior to CRI. The second gamut metric
solves the problem of conveying light-source
performance relative to color gamut. And
the fidelity metric is based on a realistic
color sample set.
TM-30-15 can only help the SSL industry move forward in deploying energy-saving technology. The new metrics will make
it more straightforward for specifiers to
deliver higher-quality lighting installations.
And the new metrics are in no way skewed
to a specific light-source type the way CRI

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MONUMENT LIGHTING

LEDs brighten freedom monument

on New Yorks historic Ellis Island
The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the
World monument on New Yorks Ellis
Island has received a solid-state lighting (SSL) upgrade that makes nighttime
views of the US National Monument
more dramatic than ever. Musco
Lighting donated the new lighting and
in fact developed custom LED-based fixtures to make the statue shine brighter
than ever while minimizing light spill.
The Statue of Liberty has stood as
a symbol of freedom since 1886 after
being presented to the US as a gift from
the citizens of France. The monument
was first lit at night with incandescent floodlights in 1916. Later, mercury
vapor lights were installed and then a
metal-halide (MH) system was put in

place for the bicentennial in 1976.

The MH lighting, installed in wells
below ground level, was destroyed by
Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Musco subsequently installed temporary LED lighting and began work on the customized
fixtures that were put permanently in
place this past July.
As is increasingly the case, the new
lighting system was developed primarily to optimize the viewing experience, with energy efficiency simply assumed as LED technology has
evolved. Musco developed customized
optics to focus the light on the monument. And indeed, the new lighting
clearly reveals sculptural details of the
artwork such as the folds of the robes.

We are thrilled with Muscos

outstanding donation, said John
Piltzecker, superintendent of the Statue
of Liberty National Monument and Ellis
Island. The good lighting practices
that have been initiated will result in
energy efficiency and enhance the experience of millions of people who view
Lady Liberty from New York Harbor in
the evening hours.
page 10

LED MANUFACTURING

OUTDOOR LIGHTING

Plessey announces silicon-LED

case study, die, and filaments

Ameresco and Acuity

behind Washington State
outdoor LED lighting project

Plessey has retrofitted its LED manufacturing facility in Plymouth,

England using modular light
engines that integrate the companys gallium-nitride-on-silicon
(GaN-on-Si) LEDs. The company also
recently announced a new group of
blue-pump LEDs that deliver wall
plug efficiency of 60%. And Plessey is
using its GaN-on-Si LEDs to deliver
filament components that SSL manufacturers can use to develop lamps
with a classic look using multiple
filaments.
Plessey has long been an advocate of GaN-on-Si technology as a way to lower LED component cost
through the cheaper silicon substrate, relative to sapphire or silicon
carbide, and the use of depreciated silicon IC fabs for
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Acuity Brands and Ameresco have announced an LED

street light project in West Richland, WA in which
1097 high-pressure sodium (HPS) lamps have been
replaced with Acuity Autobahn LED luminaires,
delivering a projected 61% baseline energy savings.
Moreover, the relatively small municipality took a
leading-edge approach commissioning the installation of an Acuity Roam network that enables adaptive control of the outdoor LED lighting inventory,
and that control technology is projected to deliver an
additional 1020% in energy savings.
Ameresco is an energy services company (ESCO)
and was the project lead in West Richland. The ESCO
has previous experience in major SSL projects including a solar-powered outdoor LED lighting project at
the Minneapolis St. Paul International page 10
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Statue from page 9

Despite the fact that the new lighting

is said to be twice as bright as the old MH
lighting, the LED system delivers the anticipated energy efficiency. The National Parks
Service said it reduced energy consumption
by 62%.
Musco, meanwhile, has been involved in
numerous notable SSL projects at US landmarks including the Washington Monument
and Mount Rushmore.
The Statue of Liberty has been an icon
of freedom for nearly 130 years. After the
devastation of Hurricane Sandy, we were
honored to bring the monument back to
light with our temporary system, said Joe
Crookham, president of Musco Lighting.
With the new permanent lighting system
in place, we continue our partnership with
the National Parks and our shared commitment to bringing good lighting practices to
the nations parks.
ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING

LED projectors cast new light on

the historic Citadel of Bonifacio
LEC Lyon has announced an outdoor architectural lighting project at the Citadel of
Bonifacio, on the island of Corsica, that uses
LED projectors to highlight the faade and
tunable SSL to serve as a guide to visitors.
The historic fortress walls can be bathed in
white or colored light while the installation
can safely take pedestrians from the entry of
town up to the Door of Gnes.
Lighting designers from LAgencelumire
worked with LED luminaires customized
by LEC. In total, around 200 LED projectors
now deliver uplight onto surfaces such as
Saint-Roch Hill, the Citadels walls, the Door
of Gnes, the bastion, and Sutta Rocca cliff.
While the faade effects beautify from near
and far, at a miserly 0.2W/m2, the project is
meant to transform an ordinary visitor to
becoming an actor of ones own experiment
of the site according to LAgencelumire
architect Stphan Legois. For example,
a so-called ladder of light guides visitors
toward the upper area of town through what
are called lively and sensory experiments.
LEC Lyon has substantial history working in older municipalities in Europe and
with iconic architecture. For example, the
company was behind the SSL
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Airport (http://bit.ly/1qAh76u). Ameresco

worked with the local utility, Benton
Rural Electric Authority (REA), to plan
the installation where a dimming strategy will deliver the aforementioned additional energy savings.
It makes good economic and business
sense for the city to install new LED street
lights and a wireless control
system that reduces energy
use by more than 60% while
improving illumination,
safety, and addressing dark
sky considerations, said
Brent Gerry, Mayor of West
Richland. In addition to
dramatic energy and maintenance savings, the control system will also enable
us to move to a lower-cost
metered rate schedule that
provides further cost reductions.
Indeed, many municipalities pay a flat
rate for electricity per street light pole;
in many cases, the energy usage is not
metered. West Richland is at the forefront
in establishing a deal with the local utility to pay for electricity based on usage.
Ameresco said the deal struck with the
utility also reduced the citys average cost
per kWh by more than 26%.
Benton REA saw this project as an
opportunity to partner with the city of
West Richland to provide improved public lighting while also conserving energy,
said Clint Gerkensmeyer, Benton REA general manager. The added safety of the new
lighting and the energy savings to the city
will benefit all residents. As a cooperative,
Benton REA is committed to improving the
communities we serve and bringing additional value to our member-owners.
As for the control system, Acuity was
among the first companies to offer a complete network and software management
tool suite for outdoor LED lighting (http://
bit.ly/1C2VFeF). While most of the major
lighting vendors have a robust wireless
network offering today, Acuity has been
supplying Roam for more than five years,
working with legacy lighting even before
SSL became the prevalent outdoor lighting

technology. Of course, LED-based lighting

offers far superior dimming performance
relative to legacy lighting where control
was limited in most cases to on and off.
Still, its rather unique to see a smaller
community deploy a wireless network
given the level of equipment that has sometimes been required, although Acuity and
others have begun to offer many options as

to how the lighting management platform

is deployed. The West Richland installation is an example of how cities of all
sizes can embrace networked LED lighting to create smarter, brighter, and more
energy-efficient infrastructure, said Rob
Drago, vice president of infrastructure at
Acuity Brands. Beyond cost and energy
savings, smart lighting that incorporates
LED luminaires, sensors, and networked
controls will continue to play an important role as cities continue to invest in more
sustainable futures.
Ameresco said the SSL project will not
bust the small municipalitys budget. The
city received a Washington State Department of Commerce grant for almost
$300,000 and incentives from the utility for nearly $200,000. The remainder of
the project was financed for 12 years and
Ameresco said energy savings will cover
the payments.
Ameresco is excited to partner with
the city to provide an LED solution that
is financially and aesthetically attractive
for the community and taxpayers, said
Louis Maltezos, executive vice president of
Ameresco. This project is unique in that
there were many constituents involved
and the collaboration provided a great
outcome.
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IN TRIBUTE

Recognizing the life and work of LED pioneer Roland Haitz

Dr. Roland Haitz passed away in his Portola Valley,
CA home back in late June at the age of 80 after a long
career with a decided focus on LED technology. We
offer this article as a tribute to Haitzs life and accomplishments and the profound impact that Haitz had
in SSL. Indeed, Haitz foresaw the transition to LEDbased lighting long before most and is perhaps most
famous for his projection on the progression of LED
technology that came to be called Haitzs Law.
Haitz first publicly postulated Haitzs Law at the
Strategies in Light conference in 2000. Long considered the parallel of the semiconductor industrys Moores Law,
Haitzs Law asserted an exponential increase in lumen output from
packaged LEDs and a corresponding reduction in dollars per lumen.
Moreover, Haitz projected that SSL products would reach efficacy
of 200 lm/W by 2020. The projections have proven very accurate
through the evolution of LED technology over the last 15 years.
The most comprehensive account of Haitzs life and career
achievements can be found on the QuarkStar website (visit http://
bit.ly/1NENsVU). QuarkStar is a startup focused on integrating opti-

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for SSL products. After presumably retiring from the
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even filed his last patent not long before his passing.
Haitz worked for most of his career with HewlettPackard (HP) and companies that spun out of HP
including Agilent Technologies, Lumileds, and Avago.
QuarkStar noted that Haitz led the development of
many light-emitting technologies that became very
widely used in applications ranging from handheld
calculators to exterior automotive lighting.
Still, it was Haitzs vision for how far LED technology would
advance that stands out as we witness a global transition to LED
sources in general illumination. Even in his final months, Haitz
continued to look forward, according to the QuarkStar account. In
some of his last comments on SSL, Haitz said, Solid-state lighting
is where the Internet was in the 1980s. Just as we could not then
have predicted what the Internet is now, 30 years later, we cannot
foresee all that light and lighting will become in the next decades.
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light features.
The Saint-Roch Chapel serves as the entry point of the glowing
route to the Citadel. That route is lit by in-ground 5760-Passy luminaires, 4020-Luminy projectors, and one 5635-Ligny light bar. Inside
the Citadel, the walls are lit by linear 5760-Passy products of varying lengths. All of the luminaires can produce the same four colors
as the main LED faade projectors.
The partners on the project faced challenges that are common
with historic sites. The Citadel is classified as a Heritage Monument and the project required the blessing of the Architectes des
Btiments de France. There are also many difficult-to-access locations where luminaires had to be installed. The result is a celebration of the local heritage that welcomes more than 1.8 million visitors per year.
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Osram Opto Semiconductors has announced the Brilliant Color addition to the Soleriq S 19 chip-on-board (COB) LED family. Brilliant
Color is a spectral-enhancement technology intended to produce
light that allows people to experience richer, more saturated colors. The technology is targeted at applications such as high-end
retail where accent lighting on merchandise can
increase product sales.
Osram said that Brilliant Color
is meant to produce similar color rendering performance as some high-intensity
discharge (HID) lamps do, such
as the ceramic metal halide (CMH)
lamps that are regularly used in retail
applications. The COB LED increases the
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color gamut, according to Osram, while having a typical CRI of 85.
Weve covered a number of other color-centric enhancement techniques such as
the Xicato Vibrant Series of modular LED
light engines that only have a CRI of 80 but
are rated highly on the Gamut Area Index
(GAI) scale (http://bit.ly/1TThbBV). GAI was
developed by the Lighting Research Center
(LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as
a secondary color metric for use alongside
CRI (http://bit.ly/1jNtPMR).
The Brilliant Color LEDs feature a 3250K
CCT, output 3325 lm, and deliver 87-lm/W
efficacy. The Soleriq S 19 LEDs are packaged
in a 2424-mm footprint. Forward voltage
for the array is 36.4V.
At the same time Brilliant Color was
revealed, Osram said it was raising efficacy
15% across the Soleriq S 19 COB LED family.
That improvement will apply to 70-, 80, and
90-CRI LEDs across the family as well as to a
range of CCTs from warm white to cool white.

Cree adds SC5-based 3.45

3.45-mm packaged LEDs in highdensity and -intensity versions
Cree has announced the XHP35 family of
packaged LEDs that will include products
in both High Density (HD) versions with a
domed primary optic and High Intensity (HI)
versions with a flat primary optic. The new
products mark the introduction of what Cree
calls the SC5 (silicon carbide 5) technology
platform being fully utilized in an LED in the
3.453.45-mm form factor, or what Cree calls
the XP footprint based on prior packaged

MORE: http://bit.ly/1hoVYi4

LEDs such as the XP-G/G2, XP-L and XP-E/E2.

The new packaged LEDs output a maximum 1833 lm from a single emitting surface, putting the LEDs in a class with multidie LEDs in discrete packages but without
the optical inefficiency of multi-die LEDs.
Cree will supply the LEDs across the range
of 2700K to 8300K in CCT; in 70-, 80-, and
90-CRI flavors; and in 2- or 3-step MacAdam
ellipse bins.
Cree announced the SC5 platform back
in late 2014 and began shipping the first
XHP50 and XHP70 packaged LEDs at the
beginning of 2015 (http://bit.ly/1Dp6yKl).
The XHP prefix stands for extreme high
power, and at the SC5 introduction Cree said
the new platform delivered double the performance of prior LEDs relative to the same
package sizes. Now that performance comes
to what has been traditionally the most popular footprint for high-power LEDs.
Cree also has launched the new product
family in both of the previously mentioned HI
and HD versions. Cree first began using the

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term HD to describe new discretely-packaged
and COB LEDs with SC5 performance and
what the company noted as better optical
control factor (OCF; http://bit.ly/1MuoBFO),
essentially touting the better beam control
achievable with more flux from a smaller
source. More recently, Cree launched the
HI LEDs in the XP-L family (http://bit.ly/1E
ExWmA), saying the flat optic makes the
source appear smaller through a secondary
optic and enabling higher center-beam candle power (CBCP).
MORE: http://bit.ly/1DYR1qk

Lumileds delivers secondgeneration COB LEDs,

10% efficacy gain
Lumileds has announced the second-generation Luxeon COB Core Range of packaged
LEDs that deliver 10% gains in efficacy and
flux output, while matching the footprint
of prior products. Called Gen 2 COB products, the family includes COB LEDs with
light-emitting surface (LES) options that

range in size from 919 mm.

As with many second-generation products, the new Lumileds COB LEDs offer
product developers a number of options in
new or refreshed SSL lamps and luminaires.
The common footprint means that designs
can easily be refreshed for higher output while using existing ecosystem components such as holders, optics, and heat
sinks. Or developers can reduce the size of
new SSL products, or take advantage of a
smaller LES while maintain the same flux
output as prior-generation designs.
Lumileds provided some examples of the
development options. A product that used
the 15-mm-LES 1208 COB LEDs could be
upgraded from 3600 to 4000 lm with a simple LED substitution. Or a developer could
use the new Gen 2 LED, keep the output the
same, and realize an increase in efficacy
from 115 lm/W to 140 lm/W.
Evidently, the performance upgrade also
applies to the CrispWhite family of LEDs that
Lumileds announced last year for retail and

other applications where excellent whitepoint and color rendering are required. The
LEDs were announced at LightFair International 2014 and use a mix of emitter types

and a new phosphor formulation (http://bit.

ly/1xh4h2Q). Lumileds also won the LEDs
Magazine Sapphire Illumineer of the Year
Award honoring the CrispWhite development team (http://bit.ly/1Dn7EcD).
The efficacy advantage across the Gen 2
COB LEDs is delivered in part by improved
control of the forward voltage required
to drive the LED. The prior-generation

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products feature a typical rating of 35.5V.
The new devices drop that figure to
34.5V35.0V.
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yield in year-round indoor gardens.

This new GrowWise City Farming research
center aims to take city farming to the next
level, with Philips scientists leading research
into LED light recipes for vegetable and cereal
production, said Gus van der Feltz, Philips
global director of City Farming.

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HORTICULTURAL LIGHTING

Philips Lighting opens LEDcentric center to study light

recipes for plant growth
The Philips GrowWise City Farming research
center in Eindhoven, the Netherlands has
opened for research into increasing agricultural yields using LED horticultural lighting in precise mixes or recipes of color and
intensity.
The GrowWise Center is a 234m2 facility
located at the Philips High Tech Campus in
Eindhoven and will concentrate research
on growing leafy vegetables, strawberries,
and herbs using artificial LED horticultural
lighting. The center will also try and find
ways to grow wheat, potatoes, and other carbohydrate-rich crops indoors.

Purdue University researches

LEDs to cultivate plants
during space missions
Philips is just one of several large LED and
SSL companies studying the use of LEDs in
horticulture. We recently published a feature
article covering new work from Osram, Hubbell Lighting, LumiGrow, and others (http://
bit.ly/1QBC00z).
Philips has long worked in the horticultural area, with commercial Green Sense
Farms in the US Midwest, for example
(http://bit.ly/VgI99H). The new research
center, however, will give Philips researchers a dedicated laboratory to study lightgrowth recipes to speed and optimize plant

Purdue University has announced the

results of a research project growing lettuce
in tight vertical layers with LEDs placed near
the plant canopy to model what might be the
tight space that astronauts experience on
deep-space missions such as a trip to Mars.
Purdue University professor of horticulture Cary Mitchell has led a research
project growing lettuce in conditions that
might be similar to those on a cramped
spacecraft. The research notes that a
trip to Mars would require 1000 days or
more, as well as more food and water than

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current space vehicles could carry. Crews

manning such missions, including a potential stay on Mars, or even the moon, would
need to grow their own food.
The Purdue work used a mix of 95%
red and 5% blue LEDs placed immediately above the canopy of the lettuce. The
work indicates that engineered LED horticultural lighting is effective in producing lettuce using 90% less energy than legacy sources and even 50% less energy than
broad-spectrum LED lighting.
Mitchell will lead further research in optimizing the light recipe. The objective is to
identify when to increase/decrease lighting
relative to plant growth stage to maximize
yield relative to energy used.
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LIGHTING CONTROLS

Oceanside installs GPS-enabled

LED street lights from GE Lighting
GE Lighting has announced that the city
of Oceanside, CA has installed more than
7700 LED street lights, with each luminaire
equipped with the companys LightGrid
network and control technology including
the integration of a GPS IC. The combination of efficient SSL, the ability to dim the
lighting, and the location-aware communications is projected to yield $600,000 annually in energy and maintenance savings.
LightGrid is GEs outdoor network technology that is based on wireless mesh networking among luminaires with sporadically-located gateways that can utilize

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Diego, CA became the first major LightGrid
installation in 2014 (http://bit.ly/1Ihw5t2).
Now Oceanside, located in northernmost
San Diego County, is adopting LightGrid.
GE recently added the GPS feature that
allows each luminaire to report its precise
location and enables automation of the commissioning process. The central control system can register the location and instantiate
the prescribed control strategy, such as on/
off times and perhaps dimming of LED street
lights during times of low traffic.
The Oceanside project is part of an ongoing initiative called Green Oceanside. The
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Plessey from page 9
the back end of
the manufacturing process. The company
first shipped its GaN-on-Si Magic (Manufactured on GaN-on-Si I/C) LEDs in early
2013, when output levels werent really
capable of supporting general lighting
applications, but the company more than
doubled performance in 2013 (http://bit.
ly/1PczCKX) and has continued to make
improvements. Still, neither Plessey nor
any other GaN-on-Si manufacturer has
matched legacy LED performance, and
few such LEDs have found use in actual
applications.
Clearly, Plessey is intent on showing the SSL community that its LEDs
are ready for general lighting applications. The company developed its own
modular light engines that it is using
to retrofit a variety of linear- and compact-fluorescent lighting fixtures in its
manufacturing facility. With recent
process enhancements, our LED modules
create efficiencies well above existing
lighting technologies, said Mike Snaith,
operation director at Plessey. We have
not only developed an efficient fixture
but have developed cost-effective ways
to implement the retrofits, which is key
in the return-on-investment calculation.
Generally, all lamps on site are replaced
annually. Fluorescent lamps, due to their

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mercury content, cannot just be thrown

in the bin and have to be processed by a
special waste facility. Therefore, they also
present a toxic hazard when carrying out
maintenance should a lamp break.
Plessey is in the process of replacing
4200 fluorescent lamps that consume
1,000,000 kWh of electricity annually. The
company said it took 200 man-hours per
year to maintain the legacy lighting. The
retrofit is projected to save 2540% on
energy consumption in addition to maintenance savings.
Its not clear whether Plessey will sell the
modules commercially. A comment from
a company executive would indicate that
possibility. The LED retrofit kits offer the
facilities engineers and installation contractors a cost-effective, quick, and easy
method to take advantage of the new technology, said Thomas Abbott, Plesseys
senior facilities engineer. Another benefit is the dramatically reduced power consumption. It only takes between 510 minutes to retrofit a fixture, and as a result,
the emergency light fixtures now require
less or smaller battery backup, meaning
increased cost savings as well as reduced
frequency for maintenance.
At the component level, Plessey
announced its second generation of blue
LEDs intended for white-light applica-

tions with the addition of phosphor. The

company first launched blue-pump LEDs
in mid-2013 with components that could
be driven at 1A (http://bit.ly/1J8pX86). The
new family includes products rated for as
much as 3A of drive current.
The other recent Plessey announcement
centered on 148-mm filaments that consist of a string of LEDs connected in series.
The filaments are intended for use in the
increasingly popular lamps that include a
number of filaments to mimic incandescent lamps styled like antique lamps, or
what Plessey calls dcor lamps. The filaments deliver 50 lm from 18 mA and have
a forward voltage of 76V.
We have taken our existing chip-scalepackaging technology, also used for our
dotLEDs, into a revised format for the filament, said Karen Strickland, Plessey
CTO. Not only do we have an improvement in terms of manufacturability with
GaN-on-Si and enhanced the power control for filament resistors, but Plessey will
also be incorporating other active and
passive electronic components for chipon-board and chip-scale-packaging solutions in the next generation of filaments.
The company said it will ship samples
of the filaments this month. Production
volumes are due in October.
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funding
programs

DOE reveals Gateway data

on LED wall wash retrofit at
performing arts venue
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has
published the results of yet another LEDbased lighting installation, this time in a
performing arts venue on the University of
Maryland (UMD) campus in College Park,
MD. The project relied on solid-state lighting

(SSL) modules to light hallways surrounding

the atrium in the Clarice Smith Performing
Arts Center (CSPAC). The retrofit of fixtures
that had once housed halogen lamps has
been deemed a success despite slightly lower
light levels and different radiation patterns.
The primary motive for the LED retrofit
was energy and maintenance savings, leading the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) staff representing the DOE and
CSPAC staff to consider options for replacing 87 existing halogen fixtures. The existing lighting was operated 7300 hours per
year and required constant maintenance
both to re-lamp failed fixtures and even to
adjust the aiming of operational fixtures.
Moreover, some of the fixtures are located
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on high ceilings, requiring a lift for service.

The team sought to use SSL while maintaining the visual appearance that both served
to highlight the atrium boundaries and provide task lighting for the transition areas.
The LED retrofit project was begun in
early 2014 when the UMD facilities management looked for LED-based wall washers that could directly replace the fixtures
and found limited options. The team needed
products with similar looks in small and
large sizes. And the size of the new fixtures
was important because the facilities management did not want to be faced with refinishing the drywall ceiling, thereby adding to
the cost and complexity of the project.
Ultimately, the team embarked on evaluation of two options to replace the smaller
wall wash fixtures The Lighting Quotient
Elliptipar S222 fixture with Fraqtir optics
(http://bit.ly/1MkstJe) and the TerraLux
6-in. Linear Line voltage modular light
engine (http://bit.ly/1sz7SbM). Both the fixture replacement and retrofit options were
mocked up and the team considered light
over the range of 2700K4000K CCT.
The products were being used to replace
150W halogens in the small fixtures. The
17W replacement luminaires did not light
the top of the wall as well as the legacy lights
and the beam was narrower. The 10W light
engines retrofitted into the fixture more
closely matched the existing lighting. The
mockup also allowed the team to decisively
choose 2700K LEDs. The halogens were rated
at 2900K but were generally dimmed, which
in the case of halogen technology resulted in
a drop to the 2700K range.
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DOE testing of L Prize

LED lamp passes
40,000 hours
The DOE SSL program has published
an update to its report on the ongoing
performance testing of the Philips LED
lamp that won the Bright Tomorrow
Lighting Prize (L Prize) back in 2011
(http://bit.ly/1NkKGbl). Long-term testing on 31 lamps reveals average lumen
maintenance of 95.6% after 40,890
hours of operation with no lamps having failed over the course of testing.
Philips Lighting was awarded the
L Prize in the 60W-equivalent lamp
category back in the summer of 2011
(http://bit.ly/1JimJPx). The DOE program required a lamp design that truly
exceeded 60W incandescent lamp performance including 900-lm output

and 90 CRI or better. The DOE tested

the Philips lamp for 18 months before
declaring the LED lamp the L Prize winner and awarding Philips $10 million.
The DOE continues to laud the benefits of the L Prize program as the
testing of the winning lamp continues. The latest update includes the
fact that the worst-performing lamp
yielded lumen maintenance of 93.7%
with the best lamp delivering 97.5%.
The long-term testing indicates that
degradation to L70, or 70% of initial
output, would require 194,765 hours
of usage, although the DOE also said
other failure modes could come into
play before lumen degradation would
essentially equate to functional failure.
At 20,000 hours, lumen maintenance
was still over 100% (http://bit.ly/1Mx
TIQC). Chromaticity change after 40,000
hours, measured on the u'v' scale, was
a miniscule 0.00093.
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DOE releases new research

projecting LED lighting adoption
in common applications
The DOE has released an updated version
of its report Adoption of LEDs in common
lighting applications. The report is based
on research focused on the adoption of LED
technology in ten common general-lighting applications, and also projects what
savings could have been with greater penetration of SSL technology. The report docu-

Moreover, the largest penetration is in the

A-lamp space with 36% of units installed
being LED based. But A-lamps dont offer
the energy savings of many of the other nine
lighting types covered in the research.
Indeed, the most compelling data is forward looking in other categories. The DOE
said commercial LED lighting applications

Opportunities for future energy savings in lighting, as compared by the DOE.

2014 LED installed
penetration (%)

2014 LED units

installed1 (M)

2014 energy
savings (tBTU)

2014 overnight
potential (tBTU)

A-type

2.4

77.7

17.6

525

Decorative

1.5

17.8

2.3

174

Directional

5.8

67.0

30

324

Small
directional

21.8

10.3

15.4

38

Linear fixture

1.3

12.5

22.8

1812

Application

Low/high bay

2.2

3.1

24.1

1165

Total indoor

2.8

188

112.3

4038

Area/roadway

12.7

5.7

9.0

201

Parking lot

9.7

2.8

8.4

245

Building exterior

11.5

7.6

5.5

69

Total outdoor

10.1

17.9

24.6

662

Other

3.3

8.3

6.4

196

3.0%

215

143

4896

Total all
1

Installations are the total cumulative number of LED lamps and luminaires that have been installed as of 2014.
2
Values may not add up due to rounding.

ments 143 tBTU (tera or trillion BTUs) in US

energy savings in 2014 attributable to LEDbased lighting products, although the savings could have hit 4896 tBTU if the country
could have converted 100% of the ten applications to SSL. The DOE also just announced
additional research funding opportunities.
The new study follows a prior similar
report that the DOE issued in 2013 (http://
bit.ly/1r3WKlQ). The 2013 savings reported
in the earlier report were 71 tBTUs, which
was equated to $675M (million) in energy
costs at the time.
The 2015 report equates the 2014 energy
savings to $1.4B (billion). The savings, while
significant, are the result of only 3% total
penetration by LEDs into general lighting.
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including linear fixtures and high/low-bay

fixtures hold great potential. Those applications have reached only 1.3% and 2.2% penetration, respectively, thus far, yet the commercial usage equating to long hours and high
light levels would lead to significant savings
as SSL penetrates to a larger degree. And the
DOE notes that high-performing products in
these applications are poised for escalated
usage. The so-called overnight potential of
complete conversion in these applications is
1812 tBTU and 1165 tBTU, respectively.
Thus far, directional lighting is the application in which LEDs have made the greatest
impact on energy savings. The DOE said the
combination of reflector lamps and downlights is responsible for 21% of
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LRC will evaluate adaptive

LED headlamps, studying
European Audi A7
The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute (RPI) has announced a new research effort focused on the
use of advanced LED headlamps and adaptive control of the high
beams for driver safety as opposed to use the use of separate lowbeam lighting. The work will be handled by the LRC Transportation
Lighting and Safety program and is being sponsored by the
Transportation Lighting Alliance (TLA), consisting of vehicle and
lighting manufacturers Audi, Automotive Lighting, Hella, Osram
Sylvania, Philips, and Varroc Lighting.
Audi has easily been the most advanced automotive manufacturer in terms of utilizing SSL technology to improve driver safety,
whereas many LED-based headlamp projects have been more
focused on energy savings and therefore fuel economy, and more
durable lower-maintenance designs. Audi has used LEDs to make
a fashion statement and to add functionality. Indeed, the Matrix
headlamps can steer the individual LEDs in the high-beam light
engine, based on input from a forward-facing camera and the GPS,
to ensure that the high-beam lights dont distract oncoming drivers and to even help guide a driver safely around corners (http://
bit.ly/1qtZK7k).
The Matrix design essentially means that there is no need for
a separate low-beam headlamp. In the US, however, automotive
industry standards have dictated inclusion of a low-beam-inclusive design, and Audi has yet to deploy Matrix LED headlamps
in the US, although the SSL technology has been widely deployed
elsewhere (http://bit.ly/1xpXhyV). Learn about global efforts to
develop automotive LED standards in an article featured in the
October 2014 issue of LEDs Magazine (http://bit.ly/1MDpiy8).
Now the LRC will study the claims made by proponents of Matrixstyle LED headlamps that adaptive high-beam implementations,
used full time at night in place of low beams, benefit drivers both
the driver of the auto with the adaptive lamps and oncoming drivers. Audi has provided the LRC team with an Audi A7 test vehicle
equipped with the Matrix design. The research that started this
past June will be fully focused on safety, and the project is being led
by director of Transportation and Safety Lighting Programs John
Bullough and LRC director Mark Rea.
Our expectation is that testing at Rensselaer of the Audi MatrixBeam system used in Europe will help ongoing standards development efforts in the US, said Stephan Berlitz, head of development,
lighting functions and innovations at Audi. We believe the introduction of this technology in the US would be very well received by
customers, just as it has been in Europe and elsewhere, so we are
happy to do all that we can to support standards and test procedure
development for the US market.
The new research is not the first time that the LRC has studied
auto headlamps, although perhaps the center is better known for its
work on roadway lighting (http://bit.ly/1UlcDAP).
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IES publishes TM-30 defining new color metrics

The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES)
has published a new Technical Memorandum
TM-30-15 entitled IES Method for
Evaluating Light Source Color Rendition
that promises to supplant color rendering
index (CRI) as a color metric. TM-30 relies on
separate fidelity and gamut metrics as well as
a set of color samples that is more representative of real-world objects as opposed to the
pastel samples that were primarily used for
the baseline CRI metric that was sometimes
called Ra. The new metric is intended to fairly
and accurately characterize both LED-based
SSL and conventional legacy sources.
We first reported on the IES color work
back in April, and indeed, the new publication is largely aligned with our earlier story
(http://bit.ly/1LlOWn9). The new R f fidelity
metric is similar to CRI although based on
the new color samples. The new R g gamut
metric is evolved from the Gamut Area Index
(GAI) work done originally by the Lighting

Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

The IES committee behind TM-30 was
led by Michael Royer of PNNL, part of the
DOE SSL organization. At the time of publication, the DOE stated it would be holding

two webcasts this month covering the basics

of the new document first and the underlying math and color science second (http://1.
usa.gov/1hpvVHn).
While the IES is clearly an influential organization, the publication of TM-30-15 will
not automatically make the work an industry standard. The International Commission
on Illumination (CIE) will also have a say in
the matter and is the standards body behind
CRI. Previously, the CIE refused to adopt the
CQS (Color Quality Scale) metric that had
been developed within the auspices of NIST
(National Institute of Standards and Technology) in the US (http://bit.ly/1MDsnOD).
The DOE said TM-30-15 has been proposed
to CIE. We will await action by that organization. Meanwhile, TM-30 clearly provides an
improved manner to evaluate light-source
performance in the color area. Refer to the
Commentary on p. 4 for more perspective on
this metric with regard to the SSL industry.
Adoption from page 24

the energy savings realized in 2014. The linear and low/high-bay applications closely follow in actual 2014 energy savings despite the
relatively low penetration rate.
The new report also notes some challenges
ahead to broader SSL usage. Specifically, linear fluorescent lighting with state-of-the-art
ballasts remains a lower-cost alternative to
linear LED lighting. The DOE also said better integration of controls is needed in applications such as linear and low/high-bay fixtures so that the latest products are capable
of delivering the maximum potential savings.
You can review both a full copy of the
report and a summary on the DOE website
(http://1.usa.gov/1P4dYJz).
Separately, the DOE announced the newest
research funding opportunities for SSL in the
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
and Small Business Technology Transfer
(STTR) programs. The agency, seeking applications for fiscal year 2016 (FY16) Phase I,
will be considering submitted LED and OLED
projects in areas such as materials that can
boost efficiency. The most recent SBIR/STTR
awards came earlier this year in the OLED
space (http://bit.ly/1gXUjiv). And awards
announced in January covered both the LED
and OLED space (http://bit.ly/1xX5kbA).
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funding programs
Gateway from page 23
L Prize from page 23

Just after the L Prize award, DOE

SSL director Jim Brodrick said the program would be judged a success especially because of the technology development and the competition that the
program inspired (http://bit.ly/1E3yqJI). Brodrick reiterated that point after
the latest report, saying, Some of the L
Prize-winning technology and design
approaches have found their way into
millions of subsequent Philips LED lighting products.
Still, its fair to point out that the L
Prize lamp wasnt a standout commercial success. The product carried a price
in the $50 range at launch, commensurate with the lofty design goals of the program; by the time it hit the market, other
affordable lamps were available. And the
remote-phosphor approach that yielded
a lamp that was yellow/orange in the off
state was not popular with consumers.

More recently, companies including

Philips Lighting have eschewed features
such as dimming and uniform, omnidirectional light distribution in a tradeoff
with cost. This has yielded lamps well
under the $5 price point (http://bit.
ly/1RFcRm0). Consumers are being challenged to learn more about light bulbs
and to select SSL products based on the
application in which the product will be
installed. Philips said the low-cost lamps
were intended for 10,000 hours of life and
locations such as closets and hallways
where lights are used sparingly.
The L Prize lamp is nonetheless an
engineering marvel and an icon of the
benefits that LEDs bring to the lighting
equation. Moreover, there are plenty of
lamps available today from Philips and
others that faithfully mimic the incandescent product while delivering long
life and much better light quality.
MORE: http://bit.ly/1LwVpwi

Ultimately, the cost and complexity of

installation made the LED retrofit option
the clear path forward. The integral fixtures
cost triple what the modules cost. Moreover,
the fixtures were slightly smaller than the
existing halogen fixtures and would have
required minor ceiling repair.
The team also considered dimming. The
modules were not rated by the manufacturer
for dimming but can work with some phasecut dimmers. The mockup revealed that the
performance was suitable for the application
so long as the level was not dimmed to below
10%. The team did report minor flicker but
judged it acceptable in the application.
A mockup and evaluation was also performed on the larger fixtures. The halogen
lamps in each fixture were rated at 300W.
The team tested an LED retrofit that used
two 13W TerraLux 8-in. light engines and
determined it was a good match to the light
pattern.
The full DOE report on the retrofit with
detailed results is available on the DOE SSL
website (http://1.usa.gov/1hyiapQ). The
report notes some changes in the amount
of light reaching the walls and floor with
the LED modules in place. Moreover, there
were small distributions in pattern and
smaller changes in color appearance. The
report notes that lighting designers/specifiers should consider the importance of
such issues in projects but also noted that
the CSPAC team is happy with the results
attained.
The small fixtures were retrofitted in
late 2014. As the DOE report was produced,
the team reported that no maintenance
had been required on either of the fixture
types. Considering the results, the DOE said
that UMD facilities management is initiating more LED retrofit projects across the
campus.
The DOE has published the results of
a number of its Gateway demonstrations
in indoor and outdoor lighting projects.
An interesting indoor lighting example is
focused on LED fixtures used in museums
to highlight as well as preserve works of
art (http://bit.ly/1J4onnv). There was also a
Gateway report on LED lighting used in a
performance venue at the University of Florida (http://bit.ly/1Tuhpd7).
MORE: http://bit.ly/1HW6Okj

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Connected outdoor lighting will be

driven by data and controls
Strategies Unlimited analyst SHONIKA VIJAY explains that although increased lifetimes
of LED lamps/luminaires will reduce shipments, the SSL market will see a demand for
advanced networked technologies with cost- and energy-savings opportunities in outdoor
lighting operations management.

he trend of devices being smart,

connected, or classified amongst
the Internet of things
(IoT) is catching on like wildfire, and the lighting world
has been no exception. As
the world gets more interactive, so does our lighting. This
push for connected lighting
is driven not only by innovation and technological evolution but also by regulatory
influences. As the penetration of LED luminaires increases in the lighting installed
base, end users are looking to optimize the
return on their solid-state lighting (SSL)
investments by coupling their lighting systems with lighting controls (see our previous column on the LED luminaire market at
http://bit.ly/1eQhQk9). Many customers are
going beyond the control of lighting systems
to make operational decisions by using monitored lighting data, tracking their lighting
assets, and assessing the functionality of
lighting equipment.

What is connected lighting?

Strategies Unlimited has recently released
its latest market research, Connected
Outdoor Lighting Report: Lighting Analysis
and Forecast 2015. Connected lighting can
have numerous definitions depending on
the features and capabilities one includes
from a lighting system. For this report,
Strategies Unlimited looks at controls
SHONIKA VIJAY is the analyst for the outdoor

and replacement LED market at Strategies

Unlimited (strategies-u.com).
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that enable network capabilities where the

lighting system could be controlled via a
central management system.
Both wired and wireless systems are examined in this
research to analyze the current market landscape of connected outdoor lighting and
project how the market will
grow in the next eight years.
The report looks at Power Line
Communication, 6LoWPAN,
ZigBee, and Proprietary/Other lighting
communication technologies.

The forces behind connected lighting

There wasnt much talk about connected
lighting a few years ago. The most we heard
in terms of smart lighting were lights that
had non-networked or standalone photocells/photosensors, motion sensors, and/
or dimming. Now, the usage of these standalone lighting controls is diminishing as
society is continuously trying to perfect
operations with constant data feedback
systems. At Strategies Unlimited, we believe
that regulatory influences, the need for organizations to cut costs, and the continuing
imperative to operate more efficiently and
effectively will foster the growth of the connected lighting market.
Due to the long lifetime offered by LED
lighting, manufacturers are realizing that
shipments from LED lamp/luminaire failure are going to decrease as LED penetration increases in the installed base. Incumbent technologies such as incandescent,
halogen, CFLs, and high-intensity discharge (HID) light sources can last between

1000-8000 hours (depending on the technology) compared to more than 25,000 hours
that manufacturers claim for LED light
sources. By offering customers connected
lighting systems with a promise of extending the lifetime of the lighting systems and
reducing energy costs, manufacturers can
expand their lighting portfolios and hopefully mitigate the effects of reduced shipments due to the low LED light failure rates
and replacements.
The second force propelling the adoption
of connected lighting is regulations, such
as Title 24 established in California. Title
24 and other mandates are pushing connected lighting into the forefront. Such regulations require the installation of lighting
controls for new construction, retrofits, and
major renovations. A table from the Strategies Unlimited report summarizes the key

Rest of
the world
17%
Western
Europe
41%

Eastern
Europe
13%
North
America
29%

FIG. 1. Connected outdoor lighting

revenue is segmented by region, with

Western Europe the leader in revenue at
41% and North America accounting for
29% of revenue.
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mandates of the standard for parking garage

and exterior building applications.
Organizations are constantly racing to
cut costs and operate more efficiently. The
need to lower operational costs is driving
the adoption of connected lighting in private
and public sectors. On average, street lights
are operational for 11 hours daily, parking garage lights for 18 hours, and exterior
building lights for 11 to 13 hours. The data
collection features of connected lighting are
creating the opportunity for its end users
to not only power lights when needed but
identify malfunctioning light sources more
quickly and save on the number of worker
hours for replacement. So now instead of
having city workers drive long stretches of
roads to identify failed street lights or hearing complaints from residents about burnedout street lights, cities can quickly identify
and fix these problems strategically. OrgaRevenue ($B)
Rest of
the world

Western
Europe
1

North
America
Eastern
Europe

0
14

16

18

20

22

FIG. 2. Strategies Unlimited forecasts

connected outdoor lighting revenue to

grow on average 40% annually from
2014 to 2022.
nizations are taking advantage of the features and capabilities offered by connected
lighting to reduce operational and maintenance costs.

Key mandates of Title 24 for parking/exterior building applications.

Application

Title 24 Specification

Parking garage illumination Classified as indoor space except for the top level of the parking
structure
Generally lit areas must be controlled by motion sensors
Luminaires in the glazing or opening areas must be controlled by
photocells
Wall packs/exterior
building illumination

Motion sensors capable of automatically reducing light levels to at

least 40% during unoccupied periods but not more than 80%
Programmable, scheduled time-based zone lighting control capable
of automatically reducing light level by 50%
Must comply with Section 130.29(c)3

the most widely installed type of lighting

communication. Cities such as Los Angeles
(http://bit.ly/1L1tSl4) and San Diego (http://
bit.ly/1Ihw5t2), and states such as Florida
(http://bit.ly/1SIdTkj), have undergone large,
publicized connected street-light installations and are reporting positive results
in terms of decreased maintenance costs;
increased lifetime and consumer satisfaction; and so forth. Though wireless lighting technologies are gaining strong market
traction, wired communication technologies may still be more appropriate for select
applications such as tunnels and remote
stretches of roadways.
As more cities demonstrate successful
connected lighting projects and receive positive feedback, the rate of connected outdoor
lighting projects will increase. Fig. 2 shows
the global forecast for connected outdoor
lighting; Strategies Unlimited forecasts the
market to experience an average annual
growth of 40% from 2014 through 2022. Connected outdoor LED lighting is expected to
grow at a higher compound annual growth
rate of 52% from 2014 to 2022.

Turmoil of a new market

Global market for connected
outdoor lighting
Fig. 1 shows the revenue breakdown by
region with North America and Western
Europe contributing to the majority of the
shipments. Developing regions are still lagging in the outdoor connected lighting market since their constituency is very price
sensitive. Installations in these developing
regions are currently happening on a smaller
scale and less frequently than in North
America and Western Europe. For the North
America region, wireless communication is
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Overall, we do anticipate the connected outdoor lighting market to experience healthy

growth in the coming years; however, this
market still has some issues it needs to consider. Most cities pay fixed-rate tariffs for the
operation of street lights, so the savings of
connected lighting systems may currently go
unnoticed in many cases because fixed-rate
tariffs do not account for the actual energy
consumption of these street lights. Lighting
systems (especially LED street lights) coupled with lighting communication technologies usually experience lower operational

hours than what cities get billed for. Smart

controls can help end this fixed-price model
under which cities are being billed.
Another concern this market faces is the
lack of standards for lighting communication protocols. LEDs Magazine has run a
number of features and columns addressing the varying needs of both the indoor
and outdoor lighting markets for networked
lighting standards (see one recent article on
a standard for intelligent outdoor lighting
at http://bit.ly/1IE0Xkp). There are currently
numerous lighting communication protocols for outdoor lighting, and most of them
lack interoperability and compatibility with
other protocols. This means that most of the
time when a city or municipality invests in a
connected outdoor lighting system, it is usually locked into this system. This may not
necessarily be detrimental; however, it may
cause problems in cases where one is looking to shop around for lower-priced lighting
communication systems in the future.
For any new market, there will be challenges that need to be addressed. For prosperous growth of the connected outdoor
lighting market, more attention will need
to be put on interoperability, compatibility,
and rate tariff issues.
Editors note: Keep up with the latest LED and
lighting viewpoints from the analysts on their
blog at strategies-u.com/blogs.
MORE INFORMATION

Strategies Unlimited recently released the market

research report Connected Outdoor Lighting:
Market Analysis and Forecast 2015. DETAILS:
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Spectrometer adds dimension to

goniometric characterization of
SSL lamps and luminaires
While photodetectors have long been used alongside goniometers to characterize light sources,
PASI MANNINEN and MIKOLAJ PRZYBYLA explain that a goniospectrometer system enables collection
of a more robust set of parametric data for LED-based products.

oniometers are a class of optical test instrument with mechanics that allow characterization of a
light source for every angle, and such test
equipment is widely used with LEDs and
solid-state lighting (SSL) products. In most
instances, goniophotometers with a photodetector were the primarily available systems for measuring light intensity. However,
to measure properties like angle-dependent
luminous intensity along with colorimetric
values like color coordinates, correlated
color temperature (CCT), and CRI of LEDbased luminaires, a goniospectrometer better meets the requirements of accurate and
complete characterization. This article will
explain how goniometers work, considerations for accurate measurements, and the
latest options available for photometric
measurements.
A goniometer (Fig. 1) is an instrument
with a rotating axis used for the measurement of luminous flux and the luminous
intensity distribution of a luminaire or
light source. The luminous intensity can be
obtained through illuminance (far-field) or
luminance (near-field) measurements at a
fixed distance from a luminaire rotated in
various directions. With sufficient angular step and range, the luminous flux of a
luminaire can be calculated by summing
up all the luminous intensities from each
measurement direction. From the luminous intensity distribution, its possible to
PASI MANNINEN is a goniometric systems

engineer, and MIKOLAJ PRZYBYLA is COO at

GL Optic (gloptic.com).
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FIG. 1. A spectral measurement device

such as a goniospectrometer delivers

increased accuracy for LED-based
luminaire testing, providing complete
characterization of LED sources.
deduce lighting application properties like
transversal/longitudinal isolux curves or
cone diagrams.

goniometer types. These goniometer types

are also frequently referred to by their measuring planes: A, B or C.
The Type A goniometer (Fig. 2) features a
fixed horizontal axis and a moving axis perpendicular to the first axis. Measurements
are taken by rotating the light source about
the horizontal axis, while keeping the other
axis in a fixed position (rotation versus elevation). Type A goniometers are a good
choice for characterizing automotive lighting with a relatively limited beam.
Type B goniometers (Fig. 3) have a fixed
vertical axis and a moving horizontal axis.
Measurements are taken by rotating the
light source about the vertical axis, while
keeping the other axis in a fixed position
(elevation versus rotation). The type B is
suitable for displays and floodlights.
The Type C goniometer (Fig. 4) is a highly
specialized type, featuring a fixed vertical
axis and moving horizontal axis. Measurements are made on the C-plane or on conical
surfaces. The Type C goniometer is the same
as the Type B, with the difference that the
light source is rotated by 90. International
standards recommend this type for general
lighting systems.

Types of goniometers
The luminous intensity distribution of
lamps and luminaires is measured on different planes. The number of distribution
curves for luminous intensity and the selection of specific measuring planes depend
on the light source, the goniometer type,
and the number of luminous intensity distribution curves. CIE Publication Number
70 differentiates between the 1, 2, and 3

Source orientation
Ultimately, however, any light source in
question must be characterized in a way
that provides data critical to the application at hand and relative to the operational
characteristics of the source. Traditional
light sources like f luorescent tubes or
sodium lamps have very specific requirements in terms of burning position. Any
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What is a suitable detector?

FIG. 2. Type A goniometers rotate a light

source around a fixed horizontal axis,

allowing a detector at a fixed distance to
capture intensity measurements.
change in the position results in a significant drop of luminous flux emission. This
is due to the fact that any change in position affects the distribution of heat and gas
molecules inside the bulb.
A goniometric measurement of SSL
sources (LEDs and OLEDs) is more straightforward as far as burning position is concerned. SSL-based products and therefore
their components do not change characteristics based on orientation. SSL luminaire
design may have a small effect on the results
as the thermal management can change a
bit with orientation. The magnitude of this
effect depends on the shape and type of the
SSL luminaire heat sink, as well as the type
of goniometer.
Depending on the shape and size of the
heat transfer radiator (for example, a heat
sink), the distribution of heat energy may
change when the luminaire is rotated.
Higher temperatures on the thermal interface to an SSL source lead to lower LED
luminous flux. On the other hand, time constants are often quite long (depending on the
heat sink) to ensure that the results do not
change during a short goniometric scan.
The rotating speed experienced by an SSL
luminaire under test also has an influence
on the convective heat transfer. In Type C
goniometers intended to produce C gamma
photometric diagrams, which again are recommended for general lighting applications,
this effect is very limited since the rotation
speed is very low.
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The mechanical movements are only part

of the story of a goniometric system. Such a
system also requires the measurement element that is located a fixed distance from
the light source under test. Options include
a photometer and a spectrometer.
Luminous intensity measurements are
typically made with a broadband photometer instead of a spectrometer. A photometer can accurately measure intensity quickly
and at low light levels. Typically, a spectrometer has limited sensitivity that affects measurement time length stretching the characterization time generally. Moreover, the
measurement time advantage of a photometer is even more significant with the low
signal conditions that result from low light
levels. But we must keep in mind that a photometer will only provide intensity levels
(cd), while a spectrometer can simultaneously make angle-dependent measurements
of color, CCT, and CRI.
When a photometer is suitable for the
test at hand, there are still some guidelines
that will yield optimum results. The photometer needs to have a good match with
the photopic spectral sensitivity (V())
defined by the CIE1924 standard describing human eye sensitivity as described by
the spectral quality factor f1. Part 7 of
the DIN 5032 standard addresses the sensitivity match by prescribing four device
classes: Class L, Class A, Class B, and Class
C, with Class L as the tightest match, specified using 15 performance criteria. The f1

FIG. 3. A Type B goniometer rotates a

light source around a fixed vertical axis
and is useful in making measurements
on displays and floodlights.

FIG. 4. Recommended for characterizing

general lighting products, the Type C

goniometer is a specialized version of the
Type B that makes measurements on the
so-called C-plane.
factor defines how well a light measurement device matches the V() curve. Laboratory Class L photometers (f1<1.5%) and
Class A photometers (f1 <3%) are generally
considered as sufficient in terms of performance for goniometric measurements.

Spectral mismatch
Still, the issue is even more complex. The f1
value does not provide the actual luminous
intensity measurement errors caused by a
spectral mismatch, because it depends on
the spectrum of the light source to be measured and the spectral shape of the mismatch. It is worth noting that the uncorrected measurement errors from a Class A
photometer can be smaller than those from
a Class L photometer, and even the maximum error deviation for a group of LED
spectra within a typical CCT/CRI range can
be smaller for practical Class A photometers in comparison to Class L meters.
LED light sources can be measured reliably using a high-quality goniophotometer.
A spectral mismatch correction should be
characterized for a goniophotometric measurement of single-color LED light sources
or the relative luminous intensity distribution could be also scaled by an absolute
measurement with an integrating sphere
spectrometer. To apply such a correction,
the measurement device needs to be evaluated and a correction file must be applied to
obtain accurate results. This should be provided by the device manufacturer. Another
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method would be to compare the results

between the sphere measurement and the
goniometric measurement as described in
the IES LM-79 standard.
When using a spectrometer as a detector
together with a goniometer (goniospectrometer), the spatial color uniformity of a luminaire can be directly measured. The goniospectrometer measures color coordinates,
CCT, and CRI as a function of observation
angle, and the goniospectrometer software
further analyzes the SDCM (standard deviation of color matching) value corresponding to the MacAdam ellipse within which the
color coordinates from different directions
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feature black surfaces with screening apertures as needed to reduce stray light. The
required laboratory room size depends on
the selected goniometer type. The SSL luminaire or fixture is mounted to the goniometer
in such a way that the turning axes cross its
photometric center and the luminaire axis is
parallel to the optical axis. The measurement
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Measurements of Solid-State Lighting

Products and the European Union standard
Draft, EN 13032-4 Lighting Applications
Measurement and presentation of photometric data of lamps and luminaires
Part 4: LED lamps, modules and luminaires (joint work with CIE TC2-71) both
require goniometers for the full characterization of lamps and luminaires. The
requirements call for measurements using
an integrating sphere, as well as goniometric measurements.
These standards also recommend the use
of spectroradiometer systems and require
Type C goniometers to be used for the evaluation of lamps and luminaires. Again,
such goniometers allow evaluation of the
light source for each of the four C-planes
(Fig. 5). Moreover, for each C-plane testing proceeds with a mechanical adjustment, producing a prescribed gamma angle
between each measurement thus the
term C-gamma. During goniometric measurement, the luminaire is set at each of

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the intensity values at different gamma

angles.
these positions, and for each position the
intensity value is calculated.
The result of such testing is a C-gamma
polar diagram such as the one shown in
Fig. 6. This polar representation is a typical diagram used to illustrate how light is

distributed in space. Again, the C-planes

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CSP LEDs crawl toward

delivering on SSL promise
Chip-scale packaging technology has the potential to reduce LED component cost and provide
SSL system-design advantages, explains MAURY WRIGHT, but the technology, borrowed from the
mainstream semiconductor industry, has been slow to emerge commercially.

hip-scale packaging (CSP) has

been touted as the future of LEDs
in general illumination applications. Proponents claim that the technology can both enable lower-cost components and offer advantages in solid-state
lighting (SSL) system design. But the packaging schemes, or lack thereof, were first
presented in the LED space more than two
years back and shipping products are hard
to find. Lets examine the state of CSP and
how manufacturers are moving to deliver
the claimed benefits.
We should begin by defining the CSP
moniker. The semiconductor industry has
evolved continuously to minimize the packaging that surrounds the actual semiconductor die. First came surface-mount device
(SMD) technology in which the device contacts were under the package, as opposed
to protruding from the sides; such devices
required automated assembly techniques
with pick-and-place robots putting the
components in position on a printed-circuit board (PCB) that was subsequently
passed through a wave-solder machine or
oven. SMD allowed much tighter packing of
devices on a PCB. A move to placing nearbare die on a PCB, using CSP technology,
increased density even more, eliminated
packaging costs, and even improved thermal convection.
LEDs are following the same trend. Jy
Bhardwaj, senior vice president of research
and development at Lumileds, said a CSP
LED does not need an interposer. The LED
comes off the semiconductor manufacturing line ready for assembly onto a PCB. Fig.
1 is a Lumileds CSP LED. Traditional LEDs
would go from the semiconductor line to a
packaging process where the die would be
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attached to an interposer such as a ceramic

substrate, yielding a packaged LED or what
our industry often refers to as an LED package. Note that LED package is an erroneous description in semiconductor
industry parlance, because the LED die
is actually assembled into a LED package constituting a packaged LED, but
the term was established by the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES)
and is widely used.

CSPs come to light

In the LED space, CSP technology entered the
scene at Strategies in Light (SIL) in 2013 when
Lumileds (then Philips Lumileds) announced
blue emitters in a CSP form factor (http://
bit.ly/1foX4lz). Those LEDs were in exactly
the same footprint as the bare die and were
intended for sale to outside customers that
had the expertise to design and manufacture SSL products capable of working with
the CSP components. Moreover, Lumileds
said at the time it would design and manufacture modular light engines, or essentially
PCBs with CSP LEDs installed, for a variety of
applications. Such a business is often referred
to as a Level 2 engagement with an SSL manufacturer in which the customer buys modules rather than LED components.
At SIL 2014 in a keynote presentation,
Samsung indicated that it would move into
the CSP space using the technology as a way
to evolve mid-power LEDs to yield more
lumens per dollar. At the time, the company
said CSP technology would allow the company to boost the power level at which midpower LEDs operate to beyond 1W, halving
the number of packaged LEDs required in a
typical application such as a 60W-equivalent A-lamp. The diagram in Fig. 2 depicts

FIG. 1. The Lumileds CSP LEDs feature

the exact same footprint as the LED die

with solder pads added at the wafer level
after epitaxial growth.
the proposed Samsung CSP architecture
compared to a legacy mid-power LED.
The potential cost advantage to the CSP
architecture seems relatively simple. For
starters, you can eliminate the separate step
of having manufactured LEDs go through a
packaging line. Moreover, there is the possibility that more steps of the manufacturing process can be carried out at the wafer
level as opposed to at the individual die level
after the chips are singulated.
For example, Bhardwaj said Lumileds
installs the solder or bond pads at the wafer
level just after the epitaxial stage of manufacturing using semiconductor etching and
metallization techniques. The LEDs are subsequently singulated. The LEDs are ready
for installation on a PCB when the wafer is
diced. Bhardwaj also said Lumileds is able
to redistribute the solder pads, generating
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a perfectly symmetrical footprint while he

said some other flip-chip LEDs have irregular pads based on the LED structure.
For now, Lumileds is handling phosphor
deposition on the individual LEDs after singulation. A touted benefit of CSP and wafer-level
packaging technology is phosphor application
using sheets at the wafer level, further reducing manufacturing costs. But its not clear when
that technology will be commercially viable.

Mid-power LED

White-chip

High lm/$

Package-free
structure

Chip

High lm/W

Flip chip

Plastic reflector

Color
consistency

Phosphor
film

Phosphor and
encapsulation

L / Frame

PCB
Source: Samsung Electronics

Obstacles to CSP

Not everyone buys the advantages of CSP, how- FIG. 2. The CSP structure and flip-chip LED architecture is far simpler than the
ever. In a session at SIL 2015, Cree, Lumileds, traditional mid-power approach and will deliver performance benefits on top of cost
and SemiconLight debated the merits of CSP advantages, according to Samsung.
(http://bit.ly/1G6inK1). Paul Scheidt, leader of
LED product marketing at Cree, said CSP technology mainly shifts of the ceramic substrate hurts system-level thermal performance
tasks from the package supplier to the die supplier.
and optical performance suffers with the CSP technology as well.
Scheidt showed the chart in Fig. 3 that depicts the typical LED production process. He said CSP technology does eliminate the pack- Momentum in the market
age assembly and die attach stages. But the LED manufacturer has It appears, however, that CSP technology has gained quite a lot of
to undertake the phosphor and encapsulation steps and the test- momentum among LED makers. After the Lumileds and Samsung
ing, along with adding the metal contacts. Scheidt said the burden announcements, a number of other companies made CSP announceto LED manufacturers is significant. Moreover, he said the absence ments starting at Light+Building 2014. Indeed, Toshiba, LG Innotek,
Seoul Semiconductor, Epistar, and Lextar all exhibited early-stage
CSP LEDS (http://bit.ly/1mTY7Br).
There remains a major difference, however, in the Lumileds CSP
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LEDs today. Bhardwaj made that point repeatedly in his keynote at
SIL 2015 (http://bit.ly/1F76zF5).
When Bhardwaj discusses CSP LEDs, he frequently uses the word
scale, in the connotation previously mentioned and in another way.
He believes CSP technology will enable standardized form factors
for high-power LEDs just as package standards set in the display
backlight area enabled many manufacturers to offer compatible and
almost interchangeable mid-power LEDs. That type of scale could
help lower component cost through manufacturing volume. Bhardwaj said, I still believe its the next big thing in LED packages.

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Assuming that CSP will deliver advantages in component cost, its

also fair to ask how the LEDs will compare with traditional midand high-power packaged LEDs. Mid-power LEDs, with a large epitaxial area relative to lumen output, are acknowledged to have the
highest efficacy measured in lumens per watt (lm/W). But that efficacy comes with low drive currents and a less efficient use of epitaxial real estate. Moreover, the plastic-packaged mid-power LEDs are
limited in terms of current drive or power and cant be overdriven
the way ceramic-packaged high-power LEDs can. Of course, higher
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LEDS

Baseline LED production process

Die supplier

Package supplier

Grow die on
wafers

Package assembly
High precision P&P

MOCVD
Attach die
Singulate die

Board assembly
High volume
P&P

Reflow ovens/epoxy
Solder attach
components

Saws

Sort die

Level 2
integrator

Phosphor and encap.

Dispense, mold, cure

Reflow ovens

Sorters
Testing
LM-80, eye safety

FIG. 3. Cree presented the LED manufacturing steps at Strategies

in Light, and said moving the phosphor, encapsulation, and

testing steps to the main manufacturing stage would overburden
LED manufacturers.
driver current reduces efficacy but also can reduce the number of
LEDs required in any given product.
We asked Jacob Tarn, executive vice president at Samsung, how
the Samsung CSP LEDs will compare with the companys existing
mid-power line. He said the initial CSP offerings, which he refers to
as CSP2, will match the ubiquitous 3030-package components on the
market in terms of baseline efficacy and lumen output. But he added,
These CSP LEDs will be able to deliver a wider overdrive range with
less droop and more product variety.
Lumileds Bhardwaj said the performance comparison depends
on application. The basic Lumileds CSP LED emits from five surfaces the four sides and the top. And today, Lumileds is not adding a primary optic on the LEDs. For applications that benefit from a
broadly distributed beam, Bhardwaj said the CSP LEDs would match
the performance of leading high-power devices.
For applications that need a tighter beam, and emission only from
the top surface, the predominant solution is a reflective coating
applied to the sides of the LED. Of course, that coating adds cost and
hurts light extraction and therefore efficacy. That coating has led
many of the LED vendors to call their CSP LEDs white chips because
of the coating on the side.

Commercial availability
Of course, the question thats probably top of mind for SSL product developers is availability. At SIL 2015, Bhardwaj said Lumileds
shipped more than a quarter-billion CSP LEDs in 2014. That figure
was questioned in the aforementioned SIL panel on CSP technology,
but Bhardwaj reaffirmed the total recently and said the company
will ship a far greater number this year.
Bhardwaj did say Lumileds is not currently supplying the CSP
LEDs in general lighting applications. But the company also supplies automotive, backlighting, and camera-flash application segments with LEDs. And Bhardwaj said CSP LEDs had shipped in each
of those three segments both to customers buying LED components and to others buying Level 2 modules.
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Several of the Asian LED vendors have
said they have shipped CSP LEDs to customers in the display backlight business. That
application came first because those customers were readily equipped with the automated assembly equipment needed to use
the LEDs. Moreover, backlight applications
dont require the quality of light needed for
general lighting applications.
Backlight units are the best applications
in which to get the optimal advantage from
CSPs wide overdrive range, said Samsungs
Tarn. Moreover, he said general lighting needs
improved efficacy relative to the LED used in
backlight applications. Tarn maintains the
stance he took publicly at LightFair International in May, stating that Samsung will ship
CSP LEDs for general lighting around the end
of 2015 and will be the first commercial supplier in the general lighting space.

Projected features

technology will allow it to offer

developers more flexibility, for example,
through 22 and 33 arrays.
considering what SSL developers might
expect in the components. Samsungs Tarn,
for example, said his companys architecture
in the CSP2 technology will enable flexibility

in what he called delivery options. The company has demonstrated CSP LEDs packaged
in 22 and 33 arrays where apparently the
LED arrays are created directly at the wafer
level (Fig. 4).
Tarn also said Samsung will be able to
place a single lens or primary optic on the
arrays. Presumably, the combination of the
array technology and one lens will offer efficiency through better light extraction along
with better quality in terms of beam uniformity and color.
Bhardwaj from Lumileds expounded on
similar themes. He said next-generation
CSP LEDs will be application specific. He
was not willing to discuss how Lumileds
will realize new features but said Lumileds
will have the ability to tune the radiation pattern. Bhardwaj reaffirmed that
CSP LEDs today need work in directional
applications, but predicted that within 12
months, the technology will match the performance of legacy high-power packaged
LEDs in beam control.

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standards | LUMEN MAINTENANCE

IES explores projection method

developments using LM-80 data
The IES is considering feedback from the LED industry on projection methods for testing and
defining additional long-term behavior changes in LEDs that are not addressed in the current version
of TM-21. JIANZHONG JIAO describes possible models and updates under investigation.

y providing a simple yet reliable method for making longterm luminous flux maintenance projections, IES TM-21-11 has
greatly benefited the LED lighting
industry (http://bit.ly/1MuDYuH).
When TM-21 was established, the
experts focused on the urgent need
of capturing the luminous flux degradation behavior of LEDs so that producers, users, and specifiers had a
widely acceptable approach to evaluating the luminous flux maintenance
life for LED lighting products. TM-21
was established based on an objective
engineering judgment and a statistical confidence. Now the IES is look
to apply a similar practice to projection of the impact of current change
to lumen maintenance, and to chromaticity and wavelength shift based on current and thermal impacts.
With the continuing growth of the LED
lighting market and applications, projection methods for other long-term behavior changes in LEDs have been requested
by practitioners. One of the requests is for
the drive current or forward current impact
on LEDs at a given case temperature. If the
LEDs are tested per LM-80 (http://bit.ly/
1J82vJi) at two different drive-current levels
for evaluating the luminous flux change over

Engineering models for projection

time, but while in real-life applications the

LEDs are operated at a different current level
than was tested, the users would like to have
a method to interpolate the test data so that
these LEDs will not need to be tested again.
A second request relates to wavelength or
color change of LEDs over time. The methods for projecting these changes have been
requested by the industry, and the IES Testing Procedures Committee (TPC) has initiated working proposals to develop the
required projection methods.

DR. JIANZHONG JIAO, director of Regulations and Emerging Technologies at OSRAM Opto

Semiconductors, Inc., is an internationally recognized lighting expert. He has been actively

involved in LED and SSL standard development activities. He serves as the past chairman of the
SAE Lighting Committee, past chairman of NGLIA, past Chairman of the NEMA SSL Technical
Committee, active member of IESNA Testing Procedure Committee, Roadway Lighting Committee,
and Computer Committee, ANSI SSL Working Groups, Standard Technical Panel of UL8750,
standard committees in IEEE, CIE USA, SEMI, JEDEC and other organizations. He can be reached
at jianzhong.jiao@osram-os.com
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The TM-21 projection method is

based on the physical picture of an
LED. When light output from an
LED changes over time, the physics behind the changes can be
described as contributions from
the LED die, phosphor, dielectric
or optical materials, and the structures of the LED component. These
contributors to the change in light
output may play various roles in the
different operational timeframes
throughout the life of the LED. With
the thorough understanding of each
change contributor in the LED, the
mathematical expressions for a single contributor or combined effects
can be established. These mathematical expressions can be verified
or proved by the experimental data. When
writing TM-21, the experts developed eight
mathematical models and adopted one
empirical model, which are all engineering-based analysis models. These engineering models sufficiently describe the light
output change over time, or luminous flux
maintenance.
When asked which engineering model(s)
can best describe the lumen decay behavior
of all LEDs, it was clear that the answers are
not simple due to the variations in the LEDs
themselves. LEDs may all be constructed
with dies, phosphor, materials, and structures, but each of these elements can be
different. The challenge was determining
which model could represent the most LEDs.
The team of experts first took an objective
approach by running each model against the
data being collected. At the time, there were
more than 40 sets of LM-80 equivalent data
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contributed by the major LED manufacturers. A statistician in the

team of experts made more than 500 runs for each set of data using
each model. The calculated values from running the data with different models were compared with real data to judge the models statistical confidence, or accuracy.
Once the team exhausted all the data and model runs, it was
clear that no one model was superior to
the others in terms of confidence level and
accuracy. Based on this conclusion, the
experts made an engineering judgment call
to choose the simplest model. Such a model
may present the worst LED lumen-decay
case, yet it may have the least punishment
to the most-luminous-flux-stable LEDs.
The experts also made recommendations
on the conditions of data usage: what test duration of data should
be used in the model, what the sample size should be, and associated projected length of the test. With these conditions, the
experts re-ran all data sets against the selected model to ensure
the method was the most appropriate approach for all LEDs, ultimately resulting in the TM-21 method.

Potential updates for projection methods

All the engineering models and data studies were focused on the light
output or luminous flux change as a function of the LED case temperature in developing TM-21. Due to the limitation of the data collection, the experts did not propose approaches or models for describing current dependency, color changes, and wavelength shifts. After
four years into the practice of using TM-21, these new topics are on
the table for discussion. IES is looking into the possibilities of the following technical topics for updating the projection methods.
The first technical topic is regarding the LED current dependency
and interpolation. In early discussion on LED decay behavior, the
priority was temperature dependency even though the experts knew
that current also matters. Some experts believed current and temperature can be two independent variables. Both higher case or
junction temperature and higher forward current should lead to
faster lumen decay over time. However, the LEDs individual dependency, either to the temperature or to the current, can be described
separately. For the lumen decay contributors within an LED package, unlike temperature, the current impact may not affect all the
contributing elements, or at least not in the same way. In general,
current has more direct impact to the die and its impact to other
elements may be indirect or none. Therefore, a new mathematical
model may be needed to describe the current effects. Once model(s) are established, similar to the previous TM-21 development
work, data collection needs to take place. The working group must
obtain sufficient current-dependence data in order to validate and
prove the model(s). If the conclusions are made and the IES is able
to make current interpolation and projection recommendations,
the information may be integrated into TM-21.
The second technical topic is the LEDs color change over time.
Recent information provided by LED manufacturers demonstrates
the possibility of severe color changes or chromaticity shifts in LEDs
being tested for more than 10,000 hours. Based on the changing
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behavior of the die, phosphors, optical materials, and structures,

white LEDs may experience color shift toward green, yellow, or blue.
Although the contributors to the color changes are from the same
elements causing the luminous flux decay, the changing mechanism is different. Additionally, the chromaticity measures are using
two-dimensional metrics namely x,y or u',v' values. Therefore,
new mathematical model(s) are needed to describe these changing behaviors. These models will need additional verification or
proof with real test data with extensive testing hours. The Lighting Research Center of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute conducted
research and published information for color change projection on
the LED luminaire level a few years ago. This information may be
valuable for the IES Working Group in developing recommended
methods in the new document for color change projection.
The third topic concerns the recent expansion of LED lighting
in remote phosphor and horticultural applications (see the recent
LED Standards feature Stakeholders make progress on LED horticultural lighting standard at http://bit.ly/1IKV1qR). More single-colored or monochromatic LEDs used for these applications are
now tested per LM-80, just as for the white LEDs. These monochromatic LEDs are tested for their radiant flux or photon flux changes
instead of luminous flux change. They are also tested for the peak
wavelength or centroid wavelength shifts instead of chromaticity
value changes. In general, the wavelength shifts over time mainly
relate to the LED die and optical materials used in the LED package.
These shifts may be described as one-dimensional changes, compared to x,y or u',v' value changes in a two-dimensional color coordinate. Over time, the wavelength of monochromatic LEDs may likely
become shorter for red LEDs or longer for blue LEDs. In some observations, such a wavelength shift in comparison to the initial wavelength is often a positive value (wavelength increases) or a negative
value (wavelength decreases), and it does not necessarily fluctuate
like white LEDs. From the limited data obtained in testing monochromatic LEDs, the peak wavelength shifts within the test durations are often minimal, especially for blue LEDs. Whether these
wavelength shifts should be negligible, how much change is considered to be negligible, and what method should be used to project or
determine long-term wavelength shifts or stability are all topics of
discussions in developing the new document.
The activities for developing projection methods at IES will use the
same standard development principle reflecting the industrys best
practice. The goal is to be as objective as possible without speculation or subjective judgment. If no conclusions are reached for a viable model(s) that can describe the current impact for projection or
interpolation, color changes or wavelength shifts, the IES may provide rationale or explanation as to why.
LINKS

ANSI works to update the solid-state lighting standard for

chromaticity http://bit.ly/1EniyfE
New standards will enable lumen maintenance projections for
SSL http://bit.ly/1NqDkQI
IES TPC considers LM standard for remote phosphor
optics http://bit.ly/1Nanhsa
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conferences | SIL EUROPE PREVIEW

SIL Europe co-locates with

LuxLive in London for 2015
With co-location centered in London, Strategies in Light Europe and LuxLive will bring together LED
lighting supply-chain, end-user, designer, and specifier professionals for a breadth of educational
content and exhibits. Conference chair BOB STEELE describes how the event will provide attendees a
full picture of the state of the SSL industry.

he sixth annual Strategies in

Light (SIL) Europe conference,
which has been held in Munich
for the past three years, will take place
at the ExCeL London Exhibition and
Convention Center on Nov. 1719,
2015. In November 2014, PennWell
Corporation, the sponsor of SIL Europe,
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two events, PennWell made the decision to co-locate them in 2015. Over the
past several years, LuxLive has come
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lighting tradeshows in Europe, attracting over 7,000 visitors in 2014.
The co-location of these two events
offers a unique combination of conference content and exhibition platform.
While LuxLive focuses on the end-user,
FIG. 1. The co-located Strategies in Light (SIL)
specifier, and design end of the lighting
Europe and LuxLive events in London will bring
industry, SIL Europe has its own distogether SSL supply chain and end-user, lighting
tinct focus and purpose. It is aimed at
specifier, and design professionals.
addressing the interests of those associated with the manufacturing, development, and application of solid-state light- to SIL Europe will automatically receive free
ing (SSL) technology. The exhibition that was admission to the LuxLive exhibits, including
previously associated with SIL Europe will be the show floor seminars and presentations.
fully represented in a separate area on the LuxLive exhibit floor. Exhibitors in this area will Conference overview
represent the LED lighting supply chain, from Keeping up with the rapid changes affectmaterials, components, and optics to electron- ing Europe and the worlds lighting indusics, modules, and test equipment. All delegates try can be a challenge (http://bit.ly/1VJCnIJ).
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smart cities to the health effects of
lighting. The conference will focus
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lighting industry now and in the future
(http://bit.ly/1k5nu2w). Keynote and
Plenary sessions will feature top executives from the lighting industry, plus
several speakers offering a different
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discussions, allowing the audience to
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Q&A periods.
An integral and important part of
the conference is the Investor Forum,
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on Nov. 17. Sponsored by investment
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The forum will cover issues such as the
pace of adoption of LEDs in lighting,
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investors with insight into their companies
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Keynote and Plenary sessions

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industries who will address the important

issues that affect the future growth of the
SSL market in Europe as well as worldwide.
Keynote speakers this year include Ulrich
Schumacher, CEO of Zumtobel Group;
Masimilliano Guzzini, vice president of
iGuzzini; and Dominiek Plancke, executive vice president at Philips Lighting. After
the keynote presentations, there will be a
panel discussion that will bring together
the three speakers for an interactive Q&A
session with the audience.
A key feature of the Plenary session will
continue to be a review and forecast of the
LED lighting market by Philip Smallwood,
Strategies Unlimiteds director of LED and
Lighting Market Research. Other plenary
speakers include Andrew Parker, strategic marketing director Smart Lighting
at Schneider Electric, and Zoltan Koltai,
EMEA technology director, GE Lighting.
These speakers will address critical issues

and opportunities for smart lighting with

regard to building integration and cities,
respectively.

leading lighting design firms. Presenters

from design firms Piercy & Company and
Billings Jackson, as well as from Philips

The idea of human-centric lighting (HCL)

has attracted increasing attention from LED
lighting manufacturers.
Market & Applications Track
In the Market & Applications Track, presentations will range from smart lighting
and the Internet of Things (IoT) to lighting and health, and from embedded lighting for architecture to the impact of LEDs
on luminaire design and SSL market issues
for Europe, including Russia. This years
program continues the conferences focus
on lighting design from previous years
and will feature speakers from several

Lighting, will address the topic of embedded lighting. Speakers from design firms
Lumascape and Lichtvision, as well as lighting manufacturer Fagerhult, will address the
impact of LEDs on lighting design.
The idea of human-centric lighting
(HCL) has attracted increasing attention from LED lighting manufacturers as
research has revealed the importance of
lighting in regulating circadian rhythms
(see the recent LEDs Magazine article
on the development of HCL in Europe at
http://bit.ly/1euA1vx). The impact of lighting on human health and wellbeing will be
addressed from several different perspectives by speakers from the University of
Haifa, Munich University of Applied Sciences, and Lumitech.
Smart lighting is one of the most exciting
trends in lighting today, and a session will
be devoted to that subject. Addressing topics
ranging from smartphones and lighting to the
IoT to visible light communications, speakers
in this session will be from Xicato, Toric, and
Echelon. In the session on market trends, European market and policy trends, public acceptance of LED street lighting, and the opportunities in the Russian lighting market will be
addressed by speakers from LightingEurope,
EDP Energias de Portugal, and Lighting Business Consulting, respectively.

Technology Issues & Trends Track

In the Technology Issues & Trends track, presentations will explore developments in LED
component technology, luminaire design
challenges and opportunities, outdoor
lighting, smart cities, and energy aspects
of LED lighting and thermal management
FIG. 2. The exhibits at SIL Europe and

LuxLive will represent both LED-based

lighting component suppliers and lighting
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track presentations.
of LED systems. In the LED component session, speakers from Lumileds, Nanoco, and
Nichia Chemical Europe will address recent
advances in chip-scale packaging (CSP),
quantum-dot technology, and phosphor
technology, respectively.
The design of luminaires with LED
sources is continuing to evolve as LED form
factors, efficiency, and color capabilities
continue to advance. Addressing luminaire
design challenges and opportunities will be
speakers from Integrated, LED Linear, and
LED Professionals. They will address subjects ranging from the impact of LEDs on
luminaire design to challenges and applications for linear luminaires to circadian

lighting design for offices.

In a session on outdoor lighting and smart
cities, speakers will address the emerging
opportunities for using the outdoor lighting
infrastructure as a platform for connectivity
to offer a variety of communications, security and other services for cities (see an article on the Danish Outdoor Lighting Lab for
an example of these connected lighting possibilities at http://bit.ly/1EXzwAk). Speakers
will be from Telensa Ltd., Sensity Systems,
and Paradox Engineering.
As control systems become more widely
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energy savings, and how to optimally power

lighting systems. Speakers from Energy
Piano, Power Integrations, and Artistic
Licence will explore these concerns and offer
potential solutions. A session on thermal
management that covers new material and
techniques for dealing with heat removal in
LED lighting systems will include presentations from Havells-Sylvania, Litecool Ltd.,
and Cambridge Nanotherm.
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Light Europe, including opportunities for
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the full conference program, may be found
at sileurope.com. Information about LuxLive
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PoE technology for LED lighting

delivers benefits beyond efficiency
Although the energy efficiency of solid-state lighting has been documented, the most efficient way
to power the lighting has been the subject of debate. ALEC MAKDESSIAN and THONG HUNYH describe
how Power over Ethernet (PoE) technology brings networking and control advantages to LED lighting
systems that AC mains power cannot provide.

ED-based solid-state lighting (SSL) is

now a mainstream technology, replacing incandescent, halogen, and compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) in commercial, industrial, and residential use. The
benefits of LEDs are well documented and
include a longer operational life, higher
energy efficiency, and tiny size for smallform-factor fixtures. As an example, the
50,000 hours of operational life for an LED
lamp is far longer than the typical 1000 to
2000 hours for incandescent lamps and 5000
to 10,000 hours for CFLs. Given their longer
life, LEDs lower the access/safety risks and
high labor costs of replacing a hard-to-reach
lamp. LEDs also cost much less to operate
and the brightness of the light emitted by
a 10W LED lamp is roughly equivalent to a
60W incandescent bulb.1
While the benefits of using LED lights are
now well understood, the best way to power
them efficiently remains debatable. In this article, we explain how DC power can be provided
to LEDs by using modern power over Ethernet (PoE) technology. When PoE technology is
compared to traditional AC mains power for
lighting, system efficiency is comparable. However, the PoE technology wins when you add
the advanced benefits of networking the lights
using the Ethernet local area network (LAN)
and the lower costs of LED maintenance.

DC power with PoE technology

LEDs are inherently low-voltage DC devices.
To ensure compatibility with traditional AC
ALEC MAKDESSIAN is director of business

management and THONG HUNYH is director

of applications engineering at Maxim
Integrated (maximintegrated.com).
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Cat5e/6/6A
cable

Motion
sensors

Dimmer
Patch panel

FIG. 1. Network-connected lighting and sensor hubs can deliver new functions

anywhere lighting is used and turn lighting off when it is not needed.
power, most LED drivers for lighting use an
AC-to-DC converter to convert the AC mains
power to a lower DC voltage. This conversion process reduces system efficiency, so
designers have proposed DC-based power
systems. A few studies have compared the
costs for the prevalent AC system approach
with a DC-powered system. One study by
Carnegie Mellon University 2 found: a savings of $2,000 per year using DC instead of
AC. If the LEDs were powered with solar PV
power augmented with grid electricity, even
bigger savings of $5,000 per year could be
gained by using DC instead of AC.3
Today, you can provide the DC power to
LED lamps with PoE technology, which is
regulated by the IEEE 802.3 standard, originally released in 2003 and updated in 2009.
This standard specifies that power and
communication data be delivered across
a single standard network cable (i.e., Cat5)
directly to the connected devices. Power is
provided via the power-sourcing equipment
(PSE) located in the switch/hub. The con-

nected device receiving the power (i.e., the

LED lamp in our example) is called a powered device (PD).
To account for worst-case power loss in
the network cable, the PSE provides more
power than the PDs power limit. The original PoE standard (IEEE802.3af) specified
that the PSE supply power at a maximum
of 15.4W over a voltage range of 44 VDC to
57 VDC using Cat3 or better cabling. In this
scenario, the PD is limited to 13W over a
37 VDC to 57 VDC voltage range. Later, the
IEEE802.3at standard extended the power
capability to 30W (PSE) over a 50 VDC to
57 VDC voltage range using Cat5 or better
cabling. The PD in this scenario is limited
to a maximum draw of 25.5W over a 50 VDC
to 57 VDC voltage range. The IEEE 802.3bt
standard, expected to be ratified soon, will
extend the PoE power capability where the
minimum power level at the PSE output can
reach 90W.
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and-play device with its own individually

addressable IP address. Moreover, adding
sensors to the LED fixture transforms it
from a lighting-only fixture to a smart LED
hub. With this configuration, each intelligent LED hub can collect information on
ambient lighting, temperature, humidity, and anonymous room-occupancy data
which it then communicates back to a controller. For example, occupancy sensing can
ensure that lighting turns on when someone enters a room and turns off when the
room is unoccupied (Fig. 1). Ambient light
sensors can also enable daylight harvesting5 and adjust the LED lighting to maintain
constant lighting when sunlight is absent.
PoE is ideally suited for powering, connecting, and controlling smart LED hubs with a
LAN. In this way, the LED lighting system
becomes part of the IT network; its reach
extends beyond the immediate vicinity
of the user and to other building services
through any network-connected device
(e.g., phone, tablet, PC). Thus, a user can utilize the systems proximity sensors to find
the closest available meeting room. An even
greater benefit extends to facility owners
and managers who now have an integrated
view of a facilitys energy usage. By measuring, monitoring, and controlling all the
nodes of the network (including heat and

Networked

Low voltage

Dimmers,
sensors, and
control

Software
controlled

FIG. 2. Smart networked hubs using LED lighting integrated with sensors provide

useful data for improved energy usage and operational efficiency.

ventilation) in real time, management can
identify opportunities for improved energy
usage and operational efficiency. Armed
with this information, they can adjust temperature, lighting, and cleaning schedules
based on historical user behavior data.
An additional benefit is futureproofing
with a PoE LED network. The LED lighting fixtures (and the associated smart sensor hubs) are already positioned where they
are needed with the power and data already
wired to the most useful locations. So new

TABLE 1. Components in the setup.

AC/DC power supply

CUI INC PSE-1000, 54V, 1000W, 230 VAC: 90% typ.

Cat6

23AWG, 67/1 km per strand or 0.067 /m

PSE MAX5980

RSENSE 0.25 switch FDMC3612 RDSON 0.1

PD MAX5982

Isolation switch, 0.1 typ, 0.25 max.

MAX16832

LED driver with eff. >95%

sensor or communication modules, such

as distributed short-range wireless access
points, can be added at low-margin cost and
with relatively little labor (Fig. 2).
Where does this get us? It is clear that
using PoE lowers the cost of deploying and
installing IP-enabled devices, whether these
devices are sensors or LED lamps. Cabling
costs are lower because data and power
share the same cable. Installation costs
are lower because a licensed electrician is
not required to install the network cable.
Installation is also safer because the PoE
DC voltage is less dangerous than 110 VAC
(or 220 VAC). A PoE network enables better
overall network power management; it provides both discrete control over the power
of the connected devices and backup power
during power outages. An example of the
added value of PoE technology was Super
Bowl XLVII when a power outage took

TABLE 2. System efficiency calculations for PoE-powered lighting scenarios.

AC/DC power supply (1000W)
Input power Eff. (%)
PAC
11.92
24.08
12.00
24.40
12.16
25.10
60

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90
90
90
90
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Output
voltage
V1
54
54
54
54
54
54

PSE
Switch

Fuse

Diode

R1
0.5
0.5
0.5
0.5
0.5
0.5

R1b
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1

Vd1
0.5
0.5
0.5
0.5
0.5
0.5

Ethernet cable
(23AWG Cat6)
Cable
R
length (m)
R2
25
1.68
25
1.68
50
3.35
50
3.35
100
6.70
100
6.70

PD
FET bridge Isolation
(each FET) switch
R3
R4
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1

LED driver
Input
power
P3
10.53
21.05
10.53
21.05
10.53
21.05

Eff. (%)

95
95
95
95
95
95

LED
Power (W)
PLED
10
20
10
20
10
20

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Power switch, R11;
fuse, R21; and
blocking diode, Vd1

Ethernet
cable

AC/DC V
1
PAC power
supply

down the lighting and elevators for 35 minutes.6 Meanwhile, the stadiums Wi-Fi network was unaffected since it was powered
by PoE, which had battery backup.
All these advantages of a PoE-connected lighting system have actually reignited the AC versus DC power debate. Some
ask, What about the ohmic losses that
the Cat5 (or better) will introduce? Others might ask, Are these losses low enough
to achieve appreciable efficiency improvement if you remove the additional stage of
AC-to-DC conversion currently required in
an AC mains powered system?
To analyze this controversy, we examine three scenarios for powering a 10W
and a 20W LED lamp. The two PoE scenarios will be powered according to the original IEEE802.3af (15.4W PSE and 13.0W PD)
and the subsequent IEEE802.3at (30W and
25.5W) standards. The AC scenario is based
on the 230-VAC standard mains power.

How cable length affects efficiency

Fig. 3 shows a block diagram of a typical PoE
lighting setup. The 230-VAC mains power is
supplied to a CUI INC PSE-1000, a 1000W
power supply with a typical 90% efficiency.

Calculation

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PD interface 1:
FET bridge, R31, and
isolation power
switch, R41

P31
V31

lighting setup shows

how a PoE-enabled
switch/router can
control multiple lighting
units.

DC/DC PLED1
LED
LED
array
driver 1
power

PoE LED lighting unit N

PSE N:
Power switch, R1N;
fuse, R2N; and
blocking diode, VdN

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PoE LED lighting unit 1

PoE-enabled switch/router

Ethernet
cable current
I2
0.199
0.401
0.200
0.407
0.203
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Voltage at LED
driver input
V3
52.99
52.46
52.65
51.77
51.96
50.32

Result
System
eff. (%)
83.9
83.1
83.4
82.0
82.3
79.7

PD interface N:
LED
FET bridge, R3N, and P3N DC/DC PLEDN
LED
array
isolation power
V3N driver N
power
switch, R4N

The PSE is controlled by a 40W MAX5984

PSE controller, while the PD uses a 70W
MAX5982 controller. Cabling is provided
by a Cat6 23AWG cable with 67/1 km or
0.067/m per strand. Fig. 3 and Table 1 provide more details on the assumptions.
Since the setup efficiency is affected by the
length of the Cat6 cable, we examined three
average cable lengths of 25m, 50m, and the
maximum allowable 100m for each of the
10W and 20W lamps. Table 2 provides the system efficiency for these individual scenarios.
For the LED driver, we used 95% efficiency in our calculation. The actual efficiency may be even higher, as seen in Fig.
4, which shows the efficiency curves of the
MAX16832 LED driver. At 48V, even higher
efficiencies are possible.
Referring back to Table 2, the system efficiency varies from 79.7% to 83.9% depending
on the cable length and, of course, the power
at the lighting fixture. For higher-power LED
fixtures, the efficiency can drop significantly. It is therefore more advantageous
for efficiency to keep the power per port
rather low. This also allows more granular
control. Having said that, a 20W (1800-lm)
LED lamp is roughly equivalent to a 200W
halogen bulb, so it is more than an acceptable task light.

How AC power conversion

affects efficiency
In the tested AC scenario, AC power is delivered directly to the LED fixture, requiring
an AC-to-DC conversion as shown in Fig. 5.
In this AC scenario, the power loss due
to cabling is minimal. Most of the efficiency losses are due to the AC/DC conversion required in each individual fixture.
The MAX16841 is an offline LED driver
that includes a constant frequency-control technique that maximizes the conver-

Efficiency (%)
100

# of LEDs
7
5
95
3

15
9 11 13

90
85
1
80
75
70
5

15

25

35
VIN (V)

45

55

65

FIG. 4. Efficiency curves for the

MAX16832 LED driver.

AC-powered LED lighting unit 1
AC/DC PLED1 LED
LED
array
driver 1
power
A/C
AC-powered LED lighting unit N
AC/DC PLEDN LED
LED
array
driver N
power

FIG. 5. AC-powered LED fixtures

experience minimal power loss from the

cabling, but the efficiency losses can
be greater than in the PoE scenarios
because of the AC/DC conversion.
sion efficiency at both the low and high AC
lines by operating in the conduction mode.
This mode minimizes the total conduction and switching losses. Refer to the MAX
16841EVKIT data sheet (http://bit.ly/1DG
zlQ6) where the efficiency with 8 series LEDs
is 82.9% with dimming, and 84.8% without
dimming. Output power is 10W.
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AC versus PoE: The ultimate comparison

Assuming a dimmable LED fixture, the AC
system efficiency (82.9%) is only slightly
better than the 10W PoE LED fixture
with the maximum 100m cable length

individual output power is kept low and if

the length of the Cat5 or Cat6 cable is short.
So actually, the more granular the lighting,
the more efficient is the PoE-powered LED
compared to AC power.

There is one additional note. Our analysis assumed 23AWG Cat6 cable resistance.
The efficiency for PoE lighting can improve
even further by using 22AWG Cat6, which
is currently not as common but could see
widespread use as PoE lighting becomes
more common.

permits for lamp and system installation

will depend on local rules and regulations.
Consequently, to truly compare cost differences between AC- and PoE-powered lighting, these labor costs must be included.
Beyond any considerations
of cost and efficiency, we must
not forget how LED light fixtures powered by PoE can be
readily paired with sensors,
wireless communication modules, and embedded processors into smart hubs. Connecting smart LED
lighting/sensor hubs to the LAN delivers valuable futureproofing by enabling the installed
LED hubs to quickly support and take advantage of emerging technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT) without additional, expensive lighting replacement.

Conclusion

REFERENCES

Our previous analysis only considered system efficiency. Actual costs were not factored in. The cost of licensed electricians/

1. A. Makdessian, The Bright New Outlook

for LEDs: New Drivers, New Possibilities,
Maxim Integrated White Paper (http://bit.
ly/1h0dits).
2. B.A. Thomas, I.L. Azevedo, and G. Morgan,
Edison Revisited: Should we use DC circuits for lighting in commercial buildings? Elsevier Journal, February 2012
(http://bit.ly/1Mmq5U4); also Energy
Policy, March 2012 (http://bit.ly/1Kg4zKr).
3. Press Release, Carnegie Mellon
Resea rchers E xa m ine Econom ic
Feasibility Of Using Direct Current
Circuits To Power Lights in Commercial
Buildings, Carnegie Mellon University,
Apr. 25, 2012 (http://bit.ly/1N15AvW).
4. Wikipedia, general background on the
IEEE standard, PoE, and references
(http://bit.ly/1L368yl).
5. Wikipedia, general discussion of daylight
harvesting and additional references
(http://bit.ly/1ElvtyF).
6. Superdome power outage delays Super
Bowl XLVII, Associated Press, Feb. 3,
2013 (Source: National Football League;
http://bit.ly/1JSOyhL).

Ultimately, the efficiency comparison between a PoE

system and AC system will depend on the lighting
needs of a specific application.
(82.3% efficiency). If we consider the 25m
Cat5 cable, the AC efficiency is actually
decreased by 1% (82.9% vs. 83.9% for the
PoE LED lamp). As the power of the individual fixtures increases, the PoE system
efficiency drops and becomes less efficient
than the AC system.
Ultimately, the efficiency comparison between a PoE system and AC system
will depend on the lighting needs of a specific application. PoE power efficiency will
always be better than an AC system if the

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Understand both static and

transient thermal management
in LED-based developments
explains the intricacies of cooling LEDs and modeling the thermal path to ensure
reliable solid-state lighting product developments.
GILES HUMPSTON

EDs are complex devices. Not only are

there the usual issues associated with
the design and operation of semiconductors, but LEDs are primarily built to emit
light. Thus there will be further system complexities of optical coatings, beam management devices like reflectors and lenses,
and for most white-light emitters, wavelength-conversion phosphors. Still, thermal
management remains paramount for reliable solid-state lighting (SSL) products that
deliver to their full performance potential in
flux produced. Moreover, you need to understand how to cool LEDs in both static and
transient implementations.
For LEDs, two thermal management
parameters need to be respected. They are
the desired operating temperature and maximum operating temperature. As a general
guideline, the desired operating temperature needs to be as low as possible. Achieving this will ensure high electro-optic efficiency with good spectrum quality and long
device life. Operation at elevated temperature not only degrades the light produced by
LEDs, in terms of quality and quantity, but
also eventually triggers a number of failure
mechanisms.
LED manufacturers are well versed in
these pitfalls and are able to design products that function perfectly happily up to
a junction temperature of about 130C.
Printed-circuit board (PCB) temperatures
are around 10C cooler due to the thermal resistance of the LED package. Above
the rated junction temperature, LED life
GILES HUMPSTON is the field applications

manager at Cambridge Nanotherm (info@

camnano.com; camnano.com).
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roughly halves for every 10C rise.

LEDs are relatively inefficient at converting electrons to phonons. A high-brightness
white LED can approach 40% efficiency,
while a UV-C LED may only be 5% efficient. In both cases, the surplus heat must
be removed by conduction to prevent overheating. Responsibility for this falls to the
LED light source or luminaire designer.

Static cooling of LEDs

Dielectrics and airflow

Consider, for example, the thermal PCBs
on which mid- and high-power LED arrays
are often built. On the top surface there is
copper tracking to make electrical connection to the LEDs, while underneath there
is a plate of aluminum to conduct the heat
away. Between the copper and the aluminum
there is a dielectric layer to prevent electrical
shorting of the copper tracks to the aluminum. Various manufacturers have taken different approaches in the selection of dielectric material, which span the complete
spectrum from organic to inorganic com-

The conventional approach to keeping LEDs

cool is to mount the semiconductor devices
on a heat sink. The heat from the LEDs
passes into the heat sink by conW/mK
duction and is then dissipated into
400
the air. In cases where the heat is
removed by water, or another fluid,
300
the heat sink is sometimes referred
to as a cold plate, since the asso200
ciated heat removal system is frequently engineered for the working
100
fluid to be at a fixed temperature
0
that is below room ambient.
Copper Aluminum
Brass
Stainless
Accomplishing effective transsteel
port of heat from the LED to the
heat sink should just be a matter of FIG. 1. Materials have varying degrees of thermal
specifying a material of high ther- conductivity.
mal conductivity. For example, from
the chart in Fig. 1, it would appear that cop- pounds. As Fig. 2 shows, the dielectric mateper is superior to aluminum and brass, rial with the smallest thermal resistance, by
which are both better than stainless steel.
nearly an order of magnitude, is the one that
While it is true that copper is the best can be applied thinnest while still providing
thermal conductor of these metals, the met- the required dielectric isolation.
ric of thermal conductivity does not account
Unfortunately, even Fig. 2 does not presfor the thickness of the material. What mat- ent a complete picture. In the thermal path
ters in terms of the ability to transfer heat between the LED and the heat sink fins,
by conduction through a material is the assuming the device is air-cooled, there
thermal resistance, which is the thickness will be a number of interfaces. Some will be
divided by the thermal conductivity.
bridged by solder, some by adhesives, and
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LEDS

others will be pressed together for example, using screws. These joints present additional barriers to the conduction of heat, the
magnitude of which can be large, difficult to
predict, and subject to change over time. The
thermal resistance each presents is termed
the interface resistance.
The series/parallel addition of all the
thermal resistances and interface resistances in the system is called the thermal
impedance and permits the conduction
path to be designed to keep LEDs cool. Calculation is analogous to electrical resistor
networks. In Fig. 3, voltage is essentially
temperature in calculations, current is heat
flux, and the resulting electrical resistance
is thermal resistance.

Transient cooling of LEDs

The prior discussion presumes a steadystate scenario where the LED is permanently
energized and the heat sink is continuously
Nanoceramic
Filled epoxy
Polymide
FR4

1
2
3
4
5
6
Thermal conductivity (W/mK)

10

20
30
40
Thickness (m)

50

1
2
Thermal resistance (C.cm2/W)

FIG. 2. The thickness of a dielectric

material impacts thermal resistance.

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60

LED
(junction temp.)
Lens

Alumina
sub-mount
Heat slug and
heat spreader
Heat sink
Ambient
(temp.)

corresponding to different components in the heat path.

The electrical model analogy
means that the term thermal
impedance is sometimes used
to describe the time-related
thermal properties of materials.
Note that there is potential for
confusion with the term thermal impedance that describes
the static thermal resistance of
a complete system.

FIG. 3. In development work, you can rely on an

electrical resistance equivalent of the thermal

conduction path. To arrive at a complete system
model of thermal impedance, thermal interface
resistances must be added at each transition
between materials.

Cumulative structure function

A useful visual tool to analyze

the role of materials in determining the time component of
the heat conduction path is the
cumulative structure function
(Fig. 5). It is the thermal impedance of a system expressed as a graph of thermal capacity versus thermal resistance for the entire
heat flow path. The origin corresponds to
the location where the power is generated

dissipating the thermal energy to ambient air. There are two situations where this
thermal model breaks down. These are
at switch-on of the LED and more generally in pulsed operation. Surprisingly, it is
possible to design a therTemperature
mal path that will keep Power
an LED cool when operating continuously but will
permit it to overheat at
switch-on. When operated
Electrical
equivalence
like this, the associated
Time
Time
model
thermal excursion can lead
to abrupt failure of the LED FIG. 4. Time dependence of thermal conduction arises
in a manner analogous to due to the heat capacity of the materials in the system,
the switch-on breakage of for which the electrical equivalence model is a low-pass
a tungsten lamp filament. RC filter.
The design of a thermal
solution for LEDs therefore needs to take and the end point is usually associated with
into account transient operation and include ambient air.
both time and spatial variables.
Because all materials possess an element
of both thermal capacitance and thermal
Time dependence
resistance, each component in the system
The time component of transient cooling is depicted as a line with a specific gradiarises due to the specific heat capacity of ent. Interfaces between solid materials
the materials in the thermal path. This can have resistance but essentially zero thermal
be added to the electrical model of thermal capacity and so are present as horizontal
resistance as capacitors (Fig. 4). The heat lines, while the end point of ambient air has
capacity of a material is the energy required effectively infinite capacity for no change in
to raise a fixed mass by a given tempera- resistance and so is a vertical line.
ture. With a step function of heat applied, it
With the start and end point of the cumuresults in a thermal time constant describ- lative structure function fixed, it is possible
ing the temperature rise versus time. Thus to conceive multiple cooling solutions with
the thermal response of the system is the identical overall thermal resistance but
superposition of many exponential curves substantially different transient behavior.
each with different time constants and For example, the chart in Fig. 6 shows the
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Cumulative thermal capacitance
Air
Heat sink

Heat spreader to
heat sink interface
resistance

Heat
sink

LED
Sub-mount
to heat spreader
interface resistance

Heat
spreader

Sub-mount
Cumulative thermal resistance

FIG. 5. The cumulative structure function provides a map

of the thermal capacity and thermal resistance of the

path between the LED die and its heat sink.
thermal conductivity and heat capacity of
four materials that might be part of an LED
thermal management solution. The ranking
order changes with the parameter considered more important.
In pulsed operation of LEDs for example, a machine-vision system designed to
freeze images on a fast conveyor where the
flash duration is measured in microseconds
it is preferable to have high heat capacity adjacent to the semiconductor. For the
usual role of continuous operation, low therNanoceramic
Aluminum nitride
Alumina
FR4

100
200
Thermal conductivity (W/mK)

1
Specific heat capacity (kJ/kg.K)

FIG. 6. The charts depict the thermal

conductivity and heat capacity of various

materials.
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mal resistance between the

die and heat sink is more
important.
In theory, the time dependence of transient cooling
should mean the temperature of the LED starts at
ambient and rises asymptotically to saturate at a
steady-state value. However, the situation in reality is more complex owing
to the other dynamic term,
namely spatial dependence.

Spatial dependence

LEDS

relevant where there is an interface or layer

of high thermal resistance in the path. By
taking steps to spread the heat over the
largest possible area ahead of this barrier,
far better cooling of LEDs is possible in both
steady-state and pulsed operation.

Convection and radiation

Any material that is above ambient temperature will lose heat by convection and radiation. While these are the dominant mechanisms of cooling for tungsten filament
lamps, they play only a small role in the
thermal management of LEDs. Nevertheless,
they should still be included in any model to
ensure the closest possible match to the realworld situation.
In conclusion, LEDs must be cooled to
achieve best efficiency and ensure the stability of their optical output and longevity.
A simple steady-state model of thermal conduction can be constructed using a model
based on electrical components. However, to

The spatial component of

transient cooling arises
from the propensity of
heat to spread in all directions. Consider,
for example, an LED mounted on a large,
thin metal plate. Initially, the entire plate
is at ambient temperature. The LED acts as
a point heat source. At switch-on,
the LED will generate heat that
transfers into the plate by conduction. The heat will pass rapidly
through the plate and raise the
temperature of the region underneath the LED. Thus, initially,
only a small volume of the plate
is being used to cool the LED.
The conductivity of the metal
plate means that some of the heat
from the LED will spread laterally
within the thickness of the plate, FIG. 7. A simple finite-element thermal model of
eventually appearing at the sur- a hot body on a thin metal plate demonstrates
face some distance removed spatial dependence as a change in the volume of
from the LED (illustrated in Fig. the plate material participating in cooling. The
7). Thus the volume of the metal models were calculated for increasing time from
plate actively engaged in cooling top left to bottom right.
the LED will increase with time,
causing the apparent thermal resistance properly understand the thermal path and
and heat capacity to also change.
in particular its behavior under transient
To a very limited extent, the spatial com- conditions, it is better to use a tool that can
ponent of transient cooling can be incorpo- accommodate time-, spatial-, and temperarated into the electrical model of heat trans- ture-dependent effects.
fer by including additional RC networks
The time and spatial dependence of therto provide second-order and higher time mal conduction explains why there is a
dependency. However, due to other effects, hierarchy in terms of materials selection
such as the nonlinearity of materials prop- in which the preference for high specific
erties with temperature, the electrical model heat capacity or good thermal conductivity
approach can be favorably replaced by finite changes with the location of the material in
element and other methods of calculation.
the thermal path and the expected mode of
Spatial dependence is particularly operation of the LED.
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last word

Market programs and regulations

hold back HCL in the US
STAN WALERCZYK,

principal of Lighting Wizards, describes the challenges of

implementing human-centric lighting in the US but also sees opportunity to
positively impact our wellbeing.

aroline Hayes article Research

assesses the value of human-centric lighting (http://bit.ly/1euA1vx)
in the July/August issue of LEDs Magazine
was quite good, and shows that Europe is
ahead of the rest of the world in human-centric lighting (HCL). If you have not yet read
A.T. Kearneys study Quantified benefits of
Human Centric Lighting, which was the
impetus for the coverage, please do (http://
bit.ly/1OC4JiT).
There is also great work on HCL happening in the US but there are still obstacles.
This column addresses mainly the American perspective with regard to some
global perspective on HCL because in several ways Europe is quite different, including
the following: how hospitals and care facilities are funded and reimbursed in much of
Europe; region-specific energy codes or lack
thereof; guidelines set by the DesignLights
Consortium (DLC); standards developed by
the Illuminated Engineering Society (IES) of
North America; and latitude.
It is my understanding that most of
Europe does not have energy codes like
ASHRAE or Californias Title 24, which probably would not allow the 2000 lx quoted in
A.T. Kearneys study in an industrial facility. Although American energy codes allow
for enough wattage to produce sufficient
light for the visual part of the human visual
system, they may not allow enough wattage
for sufficient light to affect the non-visual
(or biologic) portion of the visual system
which is part of what HCL is designed to do.
In California, even if lights are brighter for
only a short time in the morning to help sup-

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press melatonin production, all of the extra

wattage is included in the lighting power
density calculation although that wattage
is not used during typical afternoon peak
demand. What is the sense of saving every
watt if worker productivity, student learning, and general wellbeing are decreased?
Europe also does not have a DLC-type of
organization. In North America, DLC does
not currently approve interior LED lighting,
other than high bays, at CCTs above 5000K,
even if such products can also be used below
5000K (such as in a tunable fixture). As a
result, many rebate organizations will not
provide rebates on the high-CCT fixtures.
I asked DLC numerous times for its scientific rationale for that Kelvin
cap but never received it. I am not
aware of any good neuroscientist
that agrees with a 5000K cap. Some
European and Asian LED product manufacturers have told me
they will probably not bring their
tunable (dimming, CCT-, or color-changing) or high-fixed-CCT
LED products into North America until such
lighting qualifies for rebates. Americans in
the Pacific Northwest are fortunate because
the Lighting Design Lab sets many policies in that area and has no Kelvin cap. For
that reason, some lighting companies have
focused HCL efforts in that region.
Although the IES is an excellent organization and has done a lot of good work, it can
be considered to move quite slowly regarding
HCL. I am amazed how many North American lighting professionals still cling to the
notion that the incandescent bulb is the holy

grail of CCT and CRI, and that the Kruithof

Effect is valid. The lack of IES relevance in
Europe may be another reason that region
is more advanced regarding HCL. Furthermore, much of Europe is farther north than
the bulk of the population of the US, so seasonal affective disorder (SAD) may be more
of a concern and therefore more light-based
measures may be taken to combat the disorder in that region.
In addition to Mark Rea and the Lighting
Research Center, HCL resources in the US
include the Human Centric Lighting Society (HCLS). Please check out the website at
humancentriclighting.org. Although most
of the HCLS members are in the US, some
are located in Canada, Europe,
and Asia. Members cross a spectrum of roles in the development
and implementation of HCL
including neuroscientists; eye specialists; lighting experts, designers, and retrofitters; educators;
ESCOs; and more.
Ms. Hayes mentioned monetization. One of the main goals of the HCLS is
to get more HCL projects installed. To raise
the profile of HCL, Dr. Doug Steel presented
a value pyramid during the HCL workshop
at Strategies in Light in February and also at
the HCLS Conference this past June in Seattle. The pyramid shows people are willing to
pay for lighting that has general wellbeing or
specific therapeutic benefits.
Editors note: This column was developed as an individual contribution by Stan
Walerczyk and is not an HCLS document.
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Research (Academic, Government)
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Corporate R&D
Lighting Specifer
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Investment/Financial
Architect Lighting Designer
Test, Measurement, Quality Control
End User of LED Products

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33.20%
17.43%
9.96%
7.47%
7.05%
4.56%
4.15%
3.73%
2.90%
2.90%
2.07%
1.66%
1.66%
1.24%

Other
Lighting Manufacturer
Distributer
LED Manufacturer
Architect/Lighting Designer/Specifer
Test Services, Equipment
Light Engineer/LED Module Supplier
Drivers & Power Supplies
Optical Design & Integration
OEM that Integrates LED Products
LED Chip Manufacturer
Education
Display Manufacturer
End User of LED Products
Lighting Installer

17.77%
17.36%
14.05%
8.26%
6.20%
5.79%
4.96%
4.55%
4.55%
3.72%
3.31%
2.89%
2.48%
2.48%
1.65%

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Lighting Design Practice
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Media / PR / Marketing
Electrical Wholesaler
Engineering Consultancy
Product Design
Retailer
Construction / Property Development
Healthcare
Education
Hotels
Leisure

24.2%
3.0%
4.2%
4.2%
0.8%
5.8%
1.3%
3.6%
5.3%
4.9%
2.0%
2.6%
2.5%
0.5%
1.4%
0.5%
0.7%

1.3%
0.3%
0.2%
0.6%
0.9%
0.4%
1.6%
1.4%
1.5%
0.6%
1.1%
3.8%
1.0%
0.3%
0.7%
8.3%

Finance
Restaurants
Airport
Railway
Transport
Utilities
Industrials
Commercial
Local Government
Central Government
Sales Agency
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Energy Performance Contractor
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Maintenance
Electrician / Installer

0.9%
0.6%
7.9%
1.0%
2.1%
2.4%
1.8%
0.8%
5.6%
4.0%
2.1%
0.8%
1.0%
1.8%

Sales
Service Engineer
Finance
HR / IT
Consultant
Quantity Surveyor
Purchasing / Procurement
Marketing / PR
Director / CEO / Head of department
Policy Advisor
Quality
Student
Other

18.4%
0.4%
1.0%
0.4%
5.0%
0.1%
2.2%
3.7%
13.8%
0.2%
0.2%
0.8%
5.7%

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HOW TO GET TO THE VENUE

QUICK
GUIDE

GETTING TO
EXCEL IS EASY!
BY TUBE
1 Take the Jubilee Line to Canning Town
2 Change onto a Beckton-bound DLR Train
3 Alight at Custom House for ExCeL

BY CABLE CAR
Arrive in style and take the Emirates cable car to
ExCeL from the O2 Arena at North Greenwich tube.
Single tickets cost 4.40

BY CAR
ExCeL is at One Western Gateway, Royal Victoria
Fock, London. Enter E16 1DR in your Sat Nav.
There is parking for 3,700 cars and it costs 15
daily

BY AIR
London City Airport is fve minutes from ExCeL by taxi

17 November: Investor Forum 09:30 - 17:30 |

18 November: Strategies in Light Europe & LuxLive2015 09:00 - 21:30
19 November 09:00 - 17:00

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WELCOME TO STRATEGIES IN LIGHT EUROPE 2015

Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of PennWell Corporation and Strategies Unlimited I would like to welcome you
to Strategies in Light Europe 2015, which will take place at the London ExCeL Center
on November 17-19. This will be the sixth year of Strategies in Light Europe, and I am
delighted that for the frst time the conference will be co-located with LuxLive. Over the
past several years, LuxLive has come to be recognized as one of the premier lighting trade
shows in Europe, attracting over 7,000 visitors in 2014.

BOB STEELE
STRATEGIES
UNLIMITED
CONFERENCE
CHAIR

The co-location of these two events will offer a unique combination of conference content
and exhibition platform. While LuxLive focuses on the end-user, specifer and design end of
the lighting industry, Strategies in Light Europe is aimed at addressing the interests of those
associated with the manufacturing, development and application of LED lighting technology.
The exhibition associated with Strategies in Light Europe will be fully represented in a
separate area on the LuxLive exhibit foor. Exhibitors in this area will represent the LED
lighting supply chain, from materials, components and optics to electronics, modules and
test equipment. All delegates to Strategies in Light Europe will automatically receive free
admission to the LuxLive exhibits, including the show foor seminars and presentations
The conference will focus on cutting-edge topics that affect the lighting industry now
and in the future. To address the rapid changes affecting Europe and the worlds lighting
industry, the conference Advisory Board and I have curated wide-ranging sessions featuring
a world class line-up of speakers. Many sessions will include panel discussions, allowing
the audience to interact more fully with the speakers during extended Q&A periods. The
Keynote and Plenary Sessions will feature top executives from Zumtobel, iGuzzini, Philips
Lighting, Schneider Electric and GE Lighting. A key aspect of the Plenary Session will
continue to be a review and forecast of the LED lighting market by Strategies Unlimiteds
director of LED and lighting market research.
Following the Keynote and Plenary Sessions we will continue our tradition of splitting the
conference into two parallel tracks Markets and Applications and Technology Issues and
Trends - to address these two key aspects of the future growth of LED lighting. Market and
application-related presentations will range from smart lighting and the Internet of Things
to lighting and health to the emerging topic of integrated lighting. On the technology
side, presentations will range from recent developments in LED component technology to
lighting controls to advanced methods of thermal management.

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An integral and important part of Strategies in Light Europe is the Investor Forum, which
will be held for the ffth year on November 17. Sponsored by investment banking frm
Canaccord Genuity, the Forum will feature speakers from publicly-traded companies as well
as late-stage private European and global frms that have successfully brought LED lighting
products to the market. They will provide investors with insight into their companies
business operations and market outlook.
Im very much looking forward to our new venue in London and our co-location with
LuxLive. I wish you a successful and enjoyable visit to Strategies in Light Europe 2015.

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
SUNDAY, 15 NOVEMBER 2015

WEDNESDAY, 18 NOVEMBER 2015

Access for Space only stands over 70m2

08.00 20.00

Registration

08.00 21.00

Access for Space only stands

12.00 20.00

Opening Keynote Session

09.00 10.30

Delegate Coffee Break

10.30 11.00

Exhibition Floor Open

09.00 21.00

Plenary Session

11.00 12.30

Delegate Lunch

12.30 13.30

MONDAY, 16 NOVEMBER 2015

Access for Space only stands

08.00 20.00

TUESDAY, 17 NOVEMBER 2015

Access for Space and Shell Scheme stands

08.00 22.00

Conference Sessions

13.30 17.00

Investor Forum

09.30 17.30

Delegate Coffee Break

15.00 15.30

Delegate Coffee Break

10.30 11.00

Delegate Lunch

12.30 13.30

Delegate Coffee Break

15.00 15.30

Registration

15.00 18:00

THURSDAY, 19 NOVEMBER 2015

Registration

08.00 17.00

Exhibition Floor Open

09.00 17.00

Conference Sessions

09.00 12.30

Delegate Coffee Break

10.30 11.00

Delegate Lunch

12.30 13.30

Conference Sessions

13.30 - 15.00

All Exhibitor Dismantle

17.15 20.00

FRIDAY, 20 NOVEMBER 2015

All Exhibitor Dismantle

08.00 22.00

*Schedule is tentative and subject to change*

INVESTOR FORUM
Investor Forum
November 17
London ExCeL
Centre

sponsored by:

The Investor Forum will be held as part of the Strategies in Light Europe conference for the ffth year. Sponsored by investment
banking frm Canaccord Genuity, the Forum aims to address some of the principal questions being asked by investors looking
for opportunities in the lighting industry. The Forum will discuss issues such as the pace of adoption of LEDs in lighting, the
longer-term growth potential of the market, proftability analysis, and opportunities to invest in different levels of the lighting
value chain. Speakers will be drawn from both publicly-quoted companies and private frms that anticipate having public
offerings in the next few years. Companies that are successfully navigating the adoption of LED lighting products in European
and international markets will share their expertise and insight.

The Investor Forum is specifcally designed for current and potential investors, as well as lighting companies seeking fnancing
opportunities. The Forum will provide valuable fnancial and market information and excellent networking opportunities.
As of July 31, the following companies have confrmed their participation in the Investor Forum: Zumtobel Group - Acuity
Brands - Havells-Sylvania - Lumileds - Lumenpulse - Monocrystal - Nichia Chemical Europe. Over the next few
weeks we will be providing additional details of the Investor Forum. Please refer back to the Conference page on the
Strategies in Light Europe event site www.sileurope.com

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An integral part of the Forum is the participation of senior representatives from Canaccord Genuity, who will provide an overview
of the dynamics of the lighting market, including the outlook for the future rate of adoption of LEDs in lighting products. They
will also discuss recent merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the lighting industry. Canaccord is one of the leading fnancial
frms in the world conducting research on the LED and lighting industries and supporting their M&A activities.

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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE

Strategies in Light Europe 2015
Tuesday 17 November

Day 1
09:30 - 10:30

Investor Forum (Room: Platinum Room 5&6, Level 2)

10:30 - 11:00

Delegate Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30

Investor Forum (Room: Platinum Room 5&6, Level 2)

12:30 - 13:30

Delegate Lunch

13:30 - 15:00

Investor Forum (Room: Platinum Room 5&6, Level 2)

15:00 - 15:30

Delegate Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:30

Investor Forum (Room: Platinum Room 5&6, Level 2)

Wednesday 18 November

Day 2
09:00 - 10:30

Opening Keynote Session (Room: Platinum Room 3&4, Level 3)

10:30 - 11:00

Delegate Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30

Plenary Session (Room: Platinum Room 3&4, Level 3)

12:30 - 13:30

Session 1
13:30 - 15:00

Delegate Lunch
Market & Applications Track
(Room: Platinum Room 1, Level 3)

Technology Issues & Trends Track

(Room: Platinum Room 2, Level 3)

Smart Lighting

Advances in Component Technology

15:00 - 15:30
Session 2
15:30 - 17:00

Delegate Coffee Break

Lighting and Health

Luminare Design Challenges & Opportunities

Thursday 19 November

Day 3
Session 3
09:00 - 10:30

Embedded Lighting

10:30 - 11:00
Session 4
11:00 - 12:30

Delegate Coffee Break

Impact of LEDs on Lighting Design

12:30 - 13:30
Session 5
13:30 - 15:00

Energy Aspects of Lighting Systems

Delegate Lunch

Market Trends

Thermal Management
Conference Adjourns

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15:00

Outdoor Lighting/Smart Cities

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STRATEGIES IN LIGHT EUROPE ADVISORY BOARD

PennWell extends its thanks and appreciation to all members of the Strategies in Light Europe Advisory Board for their hard work and dedication.
Full biographies of the Advisory Board can be found at www.sileurope.com

Mr. Christian
Hochflzer
Technical Director
Regent Lighting
Switzerland

Mr. Jaap Schlejen

President
Schlejen S Lighting
Consultancy BV
The Netherlands

Mr. Eoin Billings

Founding Director
Billings Jackson Design
UK

Ms. Annetta Kelso

Senior Marketing
Manager LED Systems
Philips Lighting
The Netherlands

Mr. Christian Schraft

President
Havells-Sylvania
UK

Mr. Andrew Davies

Business Development
Manager
Harvard Engineering
UK

Mr. Markus Klein

Mr. Frank Schulte

Vice President
AIXTRON Europe
Germany

Mr. Bernhard
Dessecker
Lighting Designer
Dessecker Design
Germany

Mr. Zoltn Koltai

EMEA Technology Director
GE Lighting
Hungary

Mr. Philip Smallwood

Director of LED and Lighting
Research
Strategies Unlimited
USA

Mr. Richard Distl

Consultant
Germany

Mr. Michael Kramer

Managing Director
LED Linear GmbH
Germany

Mr. Paul Thurk

Managing Director Europe
ARCH Venture Partners
Ireland

Dr. Markus Ehbrecht

Managing Director
Instrument Systems GmbH
Germany

Mr. Christian
Moormann
Head of Global Technology,
R&D Department
Tridonic GmbH & Co KG
Austria

Mr. Maury Wright

Editor in Chief
LEDs Magazine
USA

Ms. Katya
Evstratyeva
E2 Strategic Advisors
USA

Mr. Erich Obermeier

Managing Director
SchahlLED Lighting GmbH
Germany

Mr. Nick Farraway

Senior Vice President
International
Soraa
UK

Mr. Gordon Routledge

Revo Media
UK

Vice President & General

Manager, Business Segment
Solid State Lighting
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors
GmbH
Malaysia

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Dr. Paolo Bertoldi

Director General, Joint
Research Centre
European Commission
Italy

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WEDNESDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2015

09:00 10:30 OPENING KEYNOTE SESSION
Platinum Room 3&4, Level 3

09:40 10:00 Speaker and title to be announced

Please visit the website for the most up to date programme.

09:00 09:20 Creating Competitive Advantage in a

New Era of Lighting
Ulrich Schumacher, Chief Executive Offcer, Zumtobel Group, Austria
The lighting industry is caught up in far-reaching change and thanks to its stable
customer relationships that have evolved over decades the Zumtobel Group is in
a very strong position to go forward. For me the key to success lies in innovation
leadership backed up by outstanding design and a rigorous customer focus. In the
era of LEDs, controls and system solutions, we must aim to be perceived by our
customers as the undisputed number one. The Zumtobel Group is one company
with three brands that are established in the global marketplace. My role is to lead
and optimise the Zumtobel Group as a whole. We have a huge opportunity to utilise
our existing knowledge and our strengths in such a way that we create value and
build a competitive edge for the entire Group, making us collectively more than the
sum of our parts.
Ulrich Schumacher was appointed CEO of Zumtobel Group AG as of 1 October
2013. He was born in Bergisch Gladbach (Germany) in 1958 and studied electrical
engineering and business administration. He joined Siemens in 1986, where he was
CEO for the semi-conductor business. In 1998 he was appointed to the managing
board of Siemens AG. Schumacher managed the initial public offering of a spin-off
in 2000, which was subsequently renamed Infneon Technologies AG. From 2007
to 2011 Ulrich Schumacher served as CEO of Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing
Corporation. Since 2011 he has held positions on a number of supervisory boards and
consulted for technology companies.

09:20 09:40 Social Innovation through Lighting

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Massimiliano Guzzini, Vice President, iGuzzini, Italy

Light profoundly affects the ways we socialize, perceive and construct our
environments and navigate through them. Light is something we need, and it
shapes how we live a social life.Social doesnt mean an area that has social
problems, or one that we think is more of a community rather than a commercial
space: a housing estate is just as social as a shopping mall.
Streets and offces clearly involve integrated relationships between lighting
(technologies and design), and people (social practices). Lighting does not simply
illuminate a social space, or respond to social needs. Lighting designs are part of
constructing assemblages, are part of social arrangements.
We make the social as much as we respond to it. Light helps people make
practical sense of their space: a place that feels familiar, distinct and legible
for the people who use it

10:00 10:30 PANEL DISCUSSION

Speakers in this session will participate in the panel discussion
10:30 11:00

Delegate Coffee Break

11:00 12:30 PLENARY SESSION

Platinum Room 3&4, Level 3

11:00 11:30 LED Lighting Market Review

and Forecast
Philip Smallwood, Director of LED & Lighting Research, Strategies
Unlimited, USA
This presentation will give a comprehensive overview of the global lighting market
for both lamps and luminaires of all technologies, focusing on the penetration of
LED products. Additionally, an overview of the global packaged LED market with
a particular focus on the general lighting market will be provided, giving a more
detailed view on how and why the packaged LED market is poised to grow. Finally,
information will be provided on the most up to date research into the connected
lighting market of both lamps and luminaires for indoor and outdoor applications.
Philip Smallwood is the Research Director for the LEDs and Lighting Group at
Strategies Unlimited, where he oversees the creation and completion of the groups
market research reports and is the author of several of the groups worldwide
lighting reports. He has been invited to speak at several lighting and LED events in
the US and Europe and was quoted in several international periodicals, including
The Economist, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Prior to joining
Strategies Unlimited, he was the lead lighting analyst at IHS and author of the 2011
and 2012 Lighting reports. He conducted extensive research on the global lamp
and luminaire markets with a particular interest in the effect LEDs are having on
incumbent technologies.

Massimiliano Guzzini is Vice President of iGuzzini, Coordinator of the ADI

Association and ASSIL representative member of Lighting Europe Executive Board.
In 2004 he began with iGuzzini and in 2005 led the set-up and opening of iGuzzini
in China, where he stayed for fve years as Chairman. Today Massimiliano is also

Director of Business Innovation & Networking and is responsible for commercial

activity in the Asia/Pacifc region.

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Andrew Parker, Strategic Marketing Director - Smart Lighting,
Schneider Electric, France
The proliferation of smart lighting solutions means that we can adapt lighting
conditions to provide the optimum environment for an given task. It also means
there is now more data from our lighting systems than we ever imagined. Is this
data useful and how do we use it to improve the productivity, health & safety and
security of the occupants plus beneft the facility manager and building owner? By
combining lighting data with information from other building services we can create
smart, green buildings that are fexible, tunable, effcient and maintainable.
Over a 20 year period Andrew Parker founded and sold two companies that used
software and new technologies to provide new perspectives on process control
and building automation solutions. Since acquisition by Schneider Electric in 2009
Andrew has been General Manager of Clipsal Integrated Systems and Technology
& Strategy Manager in Australia. He is now Strategic Marketing Director for Smart
Lighting based in Grenoble and working with a global team to develop smart lighting
solutions for the next generation of buildings.

12:00 12:30 The Power of Smart Cities: What Has

been Learned from Living Laboratories
Zoltan Koltai, EMEA Technology Director, GE Lighting, Hungary
Smart city living laboratories have been built by GE in San Diego, California,
Jacksonville, Florida and Budapest, Hungary, to fnd out how the industrial Internet
can revolutionize the way we light and see our world. This presentation will discuss
what are the expected outcomes and unexpected learning - coming from those
intelligent environment experiments and how cities can beneft from the and best
positioned IoT infrastructure the lighting poles. In these projects an open source
platform allowed software developers to immerse themselves in open source
projects to quickly learn the inner workings of the core technology. A true intelligent
city solution is one that touches all departments in a city, which allows for massive
cost reduction through elimination of redundancies, mitigation of risks, and open
discussion about how the city is connected internally to maximize how it connects
externally to the citizens. The presentation will show examples from experimentation
with these new, open platforms, in cooperation with cities and citizens around the
world.
Zoltan Koltai is the Technology Director for the EMEA region in GE Lighting. Mr.
Koltai holds a Masters Degree in mechanical engineering. His prior assignments
included Global NPI Leader, Global Automotive and HID Technology Manager
positions. For many years he has served as a member of the standardization group
ELMAPS TC5. In his current role Zoltn oversees the Research and Development
activities of LED systems focusing on Europe, Middle East and Africa with the
mission and vision to help transform our business from making lamps to inventing
and building intelligent lighting system solutions.

12:30 13:30

Delegate Lunch

MARKET & APPLICATIONS TRACK

Platinum Room 1, Level 3

13:30 15:00 SESSION 1: SMART LIGHTING

13:30 14:00 What Can Smart Lights Learn from
Smartphones and What Can Smartphones Learn from
Smart Lights
Gerard Harbers, Chief Technology Offcer, Xicato, USA
Integration, ease of use, apps and cloud based services are driving the
unprecedented success of smart mobile devices and are affecting the future
of many industries which so far had an established and secure position in their
markets. Lighting - and for that matter the building management industry - will not
be exempt from this revolution. Lighting based app and cloud managed services
are enabled by integration of sensor and connectivity components in LED lights.
Besides the obvious ability to commission and control groups and individual lights
from smart devices, many types of services could be provided by such a network.
But how is this transition going to unfold? How do sensors and connectivity devices
get integrated, and what is the right location for integration into fxtures? What types
of wireless and wired connectivity are required? Gerard Harbers will share Xicatos
vision about these topics in this talk.
Gerard Harbers co-founded Xicato in July 2007, serving as CTO. Prior to Xicato,
Gerard held various positions at Philips Research Laboratories, Philips Lighting
and Lumileds. Gerards novel high-power LED system designs included optimized
lighting solutions for many new solid-state lighting applications, such as street
lights, traffc signals, automotive headlights, signage and contour lighting, and LCD
backlights. Gerards expertise in this feld has led to numerous publications and
invited talks. He currently holds 56 issued U.S. patents.

14:00 14:30 Talking Lights

Tom van den Bussche, President, TORIC, France
Visual light communication (VLC) / light fdelity (LiFi), with its huge free and
undeveloped bandwidth, opens up an area where, due to the rapid development
of IoT, our radio waves will soon be saturated. What is the latest status in the LiFi
industry? Which are the applications that are being adopted - indoor navigation,
broadcasting or internet? What is the opportunity for each of them? These
questions, along with a review of some of the frst commercial installations on the
market, will be the focus of this presentation.
Tom Van den Bussche is the president of TORIC, an LED-centric company
focusing on next generation lighting technologies. Since 2000 he has been active
in LED lighting, beginning at Philips where as head of the SSL project department
he developed several of the current SSL solutions. In 2010 Tom became Marketing
Director EMEA, frst with Bridgelux, and then with Lumileds until he started TORIC in
2014. He holds a masters degree in engineering and economics.

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11:30 12:00 Creating Better Buildings with Smart

Lighting Integration

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14:30 15:00 The IoT Meets Lighting
Ron Sege, Chairman and Chief Executive Offcer, Echelon, USA
An Internet of Lights is formed when networked smart LEDs communicate in a
space with one another; with a server or gateway; and with sensors and controls.
This can become a backbone for a building management or home automation
Internet of Things (IoT), able to control other digital components and devices
connected to the networked lights. Find out how designing an Internet of Lights
using power line communications (PLC) over a low-voltage (DC) grid can enhance
everything from the user experience within a professionally lit Internet of Lights
space to the lighting networks reliability, manageability and sustainability.
Ron Sege joined Echelon in 2010 as Director, President and CEO, and he has been
Chairman since 2011. Previously, he served as President, COO and Board member
of 3Com. Earlier, Ron was President and CEO of Tropos Networks, Inc.; President
and CEO of Ellacoya Networks, Inc.; and Executive Vice President of Lycos, Inc. From
1989 to 1998, he served in management roles at 3Com. Ron holds an MBA from
Harvard and a B.A. from Pomona College.

15:00 15:30

Delegate Coffee Break

15:30 17:00 SESSION 2: LIGHTING AND

HEALTH
15:30 16:00 How Can Human-Centric Lighting Make
People Feel Better?
Herbert Plischke, Prof. Dr. med. Dipl.-Ing., Munich University of Applied
Sciences, Germany

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Over the past 20 years the effect of light on health and wellbeing has been better
understood and scientifcally studied. But the premise of lighting design was always
to have light for good vision and low energy consumption. A milestone for the
development of human-centric lighting was the discovery of specialized cells in
the human retina, which act as an additional photoreceptor, not (mainly) for vision,
but for control of hormonal rhythms of the human body and for acute increase in
vigilance. Today we can use these fndings to create environments for better living
and for fostering good health. This and other improvements of lighting for humans
are summarized under the term human-centric lighting HCL. Despite the
scientifcally proven result that HCL makes people feel better, existing regulations
on maximizing energy savings will counteract this. This presentation will review the
basics of human-centric lighting and the scientifc fndings on how people can proft
from artifcial light, besides better vision.
Herbert Plischke is Professor for Light and Health at the University of Applied
Sciences in Munich. He studied electrical engineering and medicine in Munich, and
worked in the feld of internal medicine, anesthesiology and brain research. From
2004 until 2011 he was Director of Generation Research Program of the University
of Munich and was leading the research group for Light and Health. He is member of
the standardization group DIN FNL 27 Non-visual effects of light on human beings.

15:50 16:10 Artifcial Light at Night as a Health

Risk Factor Can the Effect of Different Illumination
Sources be Measured?
Abraham Haim, Professor of Biology, University of Haifa, Israel
Natural light coming to our planet changes hourly, daily and with the months
of the year. Light/dark cycles throughout evolution became an important signal
for entrainment of the biological-clock located in our hypothalamus. The neurohormone melatonin, produced and secreted at night under dark conditions, plays
a major role. In general high intensities and short wavelength (SWL) illumination
suppress pineal-melatonin production at day time, while under dark-conditions or
dim long-wavelength illumination melatonin is produced. A dramatic environmental
change took place with the transformation of electrical-energy into artifcial light at
night (ALAN). In the frst decades of electrical lighting ALAN came from incandescent
bulbs, where intensity was higher than that of natural light at night. In the past
decade the increase in intensity is becoming more dominated by SWL illumination
for increased energy-effciency where LED is considered the state of art illumination
technology. However, it has the greatest effect suppressing melatonin production.
Abraham Haim holds a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and
conducted post-doctoral research at several other universities. Since 1996 he has
been a full professor at the University of Haifa and was Dean of the Natural Sciences
Faculty from 2002-2007 and from 2008-2009. His main research topic at present
is light pollution - its negative impact on human health. His research has been
published in over 170 papers (previewed journals), and has been supported by: ISF,
BSF, GIF, and CSIR Ministry of agriculture. Together with Prof. Portnov Springer he
wrote and published the book Light Pollution as a New Risk Factor for Human Breast
and Prostate Cancers.

16:10 16:30 Analytical Approach to Natural Daylight

Furthers Human Centric Lighting
Gnther Leising, Professor of Solid-States Physics, TU Graz, and
LUMITECH Produktion und Entwicklung GmbH, Austria
Research on the utilisation of the health-promoting effects of light is relatively young.
This presentation offers an overview of the current fndings in the human centric
lighting sector. Our researchers analysed the natural daylight graph and its effect
on the human body. This more accurate information benefts the technological
advancement of LED systems that drive biorhythmic lighting. We discuss the quality
of artifcial light, its effect on well-being and health, and the requirement to simulate
natural (sun)light as part of interior lighting. PI-LED technology, for example, enables
daylight to be precisely simulated according to the Planck curve, and with a daylightsimilar light quality. Pilot projects demonstrate the positive effects of biorhythmic
lighting, e.g. in the medical sector. The increased melatonin discharge, controlled by
light, supports the recovery process in post-operative situations. Application areas
for human centric lighting are exceedingly diverse and will become even more
multifaceted.
Gnther Leising, is a professor for experimental solid-state physics at the Institute
for Solid-State Physics, TU Graz. He studied technical physics and received a PhD
and habilitation in solid-state physics. He has had several visiting professorships and
international research stays. His research focuses on the physics and chemistry of
polymers, organic solids, advanced materials, nanotechnology and photonics. He is a
co-founder and temporary director of the Institute for Nanostructured Materials and
Photonics, Joanneum Research Inc. and is a pioneer of Austrian LED technology. He
is also an international expert on photophysics, optoelectronics, integrated organic
electronic, and leading-edge optoelectronic and electronic packaging.

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16:30 17:00 PANEL DISCUSSION

14:00 14:30 Light People Like

Speakers in this session will participate in the panel discussion

Steve Reinhard, Vice President, Business Development, Nanoco, UK

TECHNOLOGY TRENDS &

ISSUES TRACK
Platinum Room 2, Level 3

13:30 15:00 SESSION 1: ADVANCES IN

COMPONENT TECHNOLOGY
13:30 14:00 Leveraging Chip Scale Package
Technology to Deliver a Robust and Future-Proof
Platform
Ingolf Sischka, Technical Solutions Manager, Team Lead EMEA,
Lumileds, Germany
Chip scale packages are novel to the LED industry but they are the mainstay
of the semiconductor industry. Development of CSP in the Si ICs was driven by
miniaturization, improved thermals, higher reliability, and the need to connect to
an ever increasing pin-count on an ever shrinking die. Chip scale packages also
enabled a reduction in device parasitics and allowed for ease of integration into
Level 2 packaging. It is therefore a natural evolution for such packaging innovation
to proliferate into other industries including the LED product space. CSP LEDs are
fip chip devices with both P and N bottom contacts which enable high packing
density and SMD compliance for high speed, low cost automatic attach. The
presenter will highlight the major applications and the key adoption forces. He will
also cover the roadmap for CSP products and how performance and features enable
widespread adoption over the next two years.
Ingolf Sischka studied Lighting Technology at the Technical University of Ilmenau.
In his professional career, he spent several years with Philips Automotive Lighting
in technical and product management functions in Germany and in the United
States. Furthermore, Ingolf was responsible for the Business Creation and Technical
Product management at the Business Center OLED Lighting within Philips. He joined
Lumileds in January 2015, taking charge of Technical Solutions Management for
Lumileds Lighting in Europe.

While recent advancements in lighting are remarkable, many LED

lighting technologies still struggle with replicating color and induce unwanted
glare. However, the emergence of novel, non-toxic materials holds new promise
in replicating natural light and bolstering positive human response. Cadmium-free
quantum dots are one such solution. This technology works by absorbing some of
the LEDs light, converting it and re-emitting it with the desired color characteristics.
The dots, which are easily fne-tuned to the desired color by simply adjusting their
size, give lighting manufacturers an effcient and cost-effective way to tailor their
lighting solutions. The result is light with the color performance of an incandescent
bulb and the effciency and economy of a LED. This session will explore the progress
of cadmium-free quantum dots in the lighting industry and the technologys potential
to address unmet requisites for natural color, delivering light people like.
Steve Reinhard joined Nanoco in 2008 as Vice President of Business Development
and has 14+ years of experience in the display and lighting industries. Prior to
Nanoco, Steve held senior level Business Development, Sales and Marketing
positions with Displaytech and Dynamic Organic Light. Steve began his career at
Lockheed Martin working in Engineering and New Business Development roles.
Steve earned his MBA from Binghamton University and received his B.S. in Industrial
Engineering from Penn State.

14:30 15:00 Using Phosphor Technology to Enhance

the Retail Experience
Daniel Doxsee, Deputy Managing Director, Nichia Chemical Europe,
GmbH, Germany
This presentation will explore LED spectral and color rendering tuning for the
optimization of visual retail lighting for three distinct markets. It will be shown that
by blending a variety of phosphors the LED emission spectrum can be optimized
for visual display for merchandising of apparel, produce, and meats. The metrics
of performance for these markets can be somewhat diffcult to quantify and can
be based on the user qualitative visual evaluation. Optimization of LED lighting for
these applications require a variety of distinct and effcient phosphor materials and
a willingness of LED manufacturers to work with retail lighting makers on human
factors evaluation for the optimization of the spectrum to the application.

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Daniel Doxsee is the Deputy Managing Director of Nichia Europe, which he joined
in June 2014. Dan currently leads the commercialization of Nichias LED products
for lighting applications in Europe, based in Frankfurt, Germany. Dan frst joined
Nichia Corporation in 2004 at Nichia America, where he served as Vice President,
based in Detroit, and oversaw the expansion of Nichias lighting and automotive
businesses in the US, Canada and South America. Prior to joining Nichia in 2004
Dan spent six years with GE Lightings LED division in various roles in Engineering
and Product Management. He received his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry in 1992.

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15:30 17:00 SESSION 2: LUMINARE DESIGN
CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES
15:30 15:00 The Impact of LEDs on Luminaire
Design
Thomas Knoop, Managing Director, INTEGRATED, Germany
LEDs have been revolutionising the lighting industry, but what has actually changed?
When LEDs were established as the future of lighting, it was expected that they
would stimulate a new approach to both products and design applications, enabling
a rush of creative new solutions. However, so far the newest LED luminaires often
look like their conventional predecessors, and most building applications remain
similarly consistent, with new technologies simply replacing the lamps of before.
Will this wave of new designs ultimately come, or will the LED revolution be invisible
for the observer? Does new technology change the way we design lighting? This
presentation will address the impact of LED technology on new lighting products
and applications, with a look at major trends in design, features and utilisation.
We use our consulting background working with major luminaire manufacturers
worldwide, combined with our global lighting design practice, to address the raised
questions.
Dr. Thomas Knoop co-founded Lichtvision, a globally recognized lighting design
and development studio in Berlin, after serving in various positions at Philips
Lighting, from product development to marketing and including managing the
transition to LED technology at an executive level. Within INTEGRATED Thomas
Knoop is the industry process specialist, and leads strategy and technology
consulting projects. He holds a MS in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Lighting
Technology

16:30 17:00 First Circadian Offce Lighting Design

Hans-Joerg Tangermann, Managing Director, LED Professionals,
Germany
In 2012 Hans-Joerg Tangermann designed and realized the lighting of the historical
Shnlein Palais in Wiesbaden, Germany. The design of the light fxtures was based
on newest scientifcally proven facts about the circadian system. The model is
natural daylight, but also artifcial light in a perfect color temperature and brightness
is improving the subjective well-being of the employees. Furthermore, by objective
measurements, immune system and concentration are improved. The lighting
design is based on two perfectly harmonized elements. Suspended elements have
a 50/50 direct and indirect proportion. All rooms are equipped with linear LED
lights in shadow gaps. These LEDs are synchronized via installed interfaces with
the suspended fxtures. These interfaces control color temperature and brightness
based also on incident daylight. The mini-server with its special programmed
software controls the parameters GPS-location, daylight, and time as well as the
season to produce the perfect light.
Hans-Joerg Tangermann has designed beautiful and effcient lighting in high
class residential and commercial projects since 1991. OSRAM AG and other
companies assigned him as a Principal Consultant to manage the necessary
changes towards LED lighting. Also he is a specialist in implementing these results
into existing or new sales structures. In 2014 he founded LED-Professionals.
Circadian infuences and visions of lighting are his passion.

16:00 16:30 Linear LED Luminaires: Technological

Challenges, Applications and Prospects
Felix Kuepper, Product Manager, LED Linear GmbH, Germany

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LED based linear lighting fxtures are gaining in importance for both general and
architectural lighting due to their variety in applications. This talk will address the
most critical technological challenges which manufacturers and lighting designers
are being faced with today. Among long linear LED fxtures color consistency
and color stability are of major concern, but can be ensured by proper luminaire
designs paired with the right technological approaches. With respect to design,
LED based linear luminaires allow for innovative and novel form factors for general
lighting applications such as for offces, industrial or urban spaces. However,
for the realization of e.g. slim designs, curvatures in fxtures, outdoor protection
implementation etc., thermal management coupled with LED lifetime is another
example of technological challenges, which are strongly interdependent. We will
discuss the research and development of novel products within a design driven
framework. Finally we will give an overview of the most noteworthy developments.
Before Felix Kpper joined LED Linear in 2014 as head of the product
management department, he worked for seven years as physics engineer and
project leader at the German Fraunhofer Gesellschaft in the feld of semiconductor
lithography. He earned his PhD in physics for basic research in the feld of EUV
radiation generation for next generation semiconductor lithography. Dr. Kpper also
received a M.Sc. in International Management in 2011.

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THURSDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2015

MARKET & APPLICATIONS TRACK
Platinum Room 1, Level 3

09:00 10:30 SESSION 3: EMBEDDED

LIGHTING
09:00 09:20 Integrated Lighting within Architecture
James Patterson, Senior Architect, Piercy&Company, UK
Piercy&Company has carved a reputation for carefully crafted contemporary
residential, commercial, and civic projects in sensitive historic environments. This
presentation will explore the ways in which integrated lighting is key to articulating
a design narrative around the traditional materials and bespoke crafted elements
within our buildings. Starting with historic building as diverse as a restored Martello
Tower dating from 1802 and a St James Townhouse, James Patterson will show
how integrated lighting has helped the studio weave together the old historic fabric
with new additions. In each, lighting subtly shifts the mood between old and new
components. James will then focus on two new build commercial buildings in
London. Both buildings are for the same client, but the location of each demanded
a different approach to the design. One sits among the warehouses of Clerkenwell,
whilst the other is a refned West End building. In Clerkenwell, the lighting strategy
enhanced the robust quality of the brick facade and built on the warehouse
character, whilst the West End building employed integrated lighting to play up
the refnement of materials and craftmanship. James will conclude by exploring a
common factor of the projects - the role of lighting in designing for offce fexibility.
James Patterson (ARB) is a Senior Architect at Piercy & Company. James has
been instrumental in many of Piercy & Companys work space projects, and he
is currently delivering a signifcant commercial scheme in Fitzrovia for Derwent
London. He has been working closely with the lighting consultants on the project
to develop integrated architectural lighting solutions throughout the building which
enhance both the architectural space and quality of materials used.

09:40 10:00 SSL as a Building Material: the

Reinvention of Lighting Design
Eoin Billings, Founding Director, Billings Jackson Design, UK
As SSL technology rapidly evolves and matures so does our response to it. At the
most sophisticated and successful level this involves re-envisaging light, not just
as a means of articulating space, but as an architectural building block in its own
right. This talk will look at what happens when existing procurement routes are
challenged, construction methods and building materials picked apart, traditional
industry boundaries broken down and building designer brought closer to lighting
manufacturer. The advent of SSL has created the opportunity to innovate through
new partnerships, integrated thinking and applied industrial design to push the
boundaries of digital lighting technology and integrate SSL into building fabric as
never before to create smarter, more responsive environments for us all.
Eoin Billings is a director and founding partner of Billings Jackson Design and is
based in the London offce, where he is responsible for architectural project work.
He has a proven track record of delivering high quality systemised components
effciently and on budget and for developing commercially successful products with
architectural partners. Eoin trained in Industrial Design and won the Graduates Gold
Medal, awarded by the Society of Designers in Ireland, in 1991. The following year
he founded Billings Jackson Design with Duncan Jackson. The frm has won an
international reputation for the product design it has done for manufacturers and for
its expertise in delivering detail design solutions for architects.

10:00 10:30 PANEL DISCUSSION

Speakers in this session will participate in the panel discussion
10:30 11:00

Delegate Coffee Break

09:20 09:40 Embedded Lighting: Exploring the

Fusion of Light + Architectural Materials

Lighting has historically been fragile, dangerous, objectifed. Yet new technologies
are being developed to permit lighting systems to be embedded directly into
architectural surfaces. This presentation will survey current embedded lighting
systems and how specifers can use these immediately. It will then explore how new
technologies such as conductive inks, fexible electronics, digital fabrication and
eco-friendly materials may fuse together to drive future innovation, including the
impact on architectural system detailing, maintenance and life-cycle considerations.
This presentation is targeted at creative designers with an eye for whats next.
Brad Koerners passion is enriching peoples lives through lighting. In doing so,
Brad has become a creative leader in the synthesis and application of advanced
lighting technologies, an entrepreneurial project leader, a seasoned product
marketing manager and an award-winning lighting designer. Brad is currently the
General Manager of Luminous Patterns, a new venture within Philips Lighting.

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Brad Koerner, Director of Experience Design, Philips Lighting,

The Netherlands

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11:00 12:30 SESSION 4: IMPACT OF LEDS ON
LIGHTING DESIGN
11:00 11:20 LED is in the House

11:40 12:00 How Fast and Reliable On-Site

Measurements Can Increase the Quality of Future
Specifcation of LED Light Sources
Henrik Clausen, Director, Fagerhult Lighting Academy, Denmark

Anna Saula, General Manager, Lumascape, Australia

The Sydney Opera House, one of the worlds most recognized and celebrated
buildings, is an acclaimed performance venue, hosting more than 1,800 events
each year. Within the concert hall, lighting engineers were faced with considerable
challenges, including maintaining an aging system with regular failures.
Transformers were failing and traditional replacement lamps became harder to
fnd. After searching for the right LED solution, it became apparent that no existing
products could meet the needs of the Opera House, and they ultimately turned to
a bespoke solution. This presentation takes a deep dive into the design process,
from start to fnish, over a two-year period. The lead designer on the project will
explain the design and engineering challenges the team addressed in developing
custom luminaires using next generation technologies and a state-of-the-art control
system while maintaining the historical characteristics that make the Opera House a
celebrated cultural icon.
Anna Saula serves as General Manager of Lumascapes global operations. She
is responsible for overseeing the companys multiple divisions in Changzhou,
Jiangsu (China), San Carlos, CA (U.S.) and headquarters in Brisbane (Australia),
and has spent more than 25 years in management roles with leading technology
companies throughout the world. Saula, an electronics engineer, obtained her BEng
in Zagreb, Croatia and holds an MBA from Massey University, New Zealand. She is
an accredited Company Director and member of the Australian Institute of Company
Directors.

11:20 11:40 Challenges in the Practice of Design

Carla Wilkins, Senior Partner, Lichtvision, Germany

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In the wide range of international projects Lichtvision is designing, LED is preferred

100% of the time. In reality Lichtvision has designed some projects with some
conventional lamp types in the last years. The small percentage refects the areas
were the LED modules and luminaires could not be improved on time. The reasons
for the choice of conventional lamps included, for example, temperature, light
distribution, and other factors. The cost issue is discussable if the client is not the
tenant. The light distribution, especially in the narrow beam angles, is improving.
Lighting designers dare to advance the industry and to look for the solutions which
also survive in the specifcation and through all project stages. Based on examples
of upcoming well delivered projects these tasks will be explained and a discussion
will be started of new opportunities in the LED luminaire development.
Carla Wilkins was one of the founding partners in 1997 in LICHTVISION, with
offces in Berlin, London and Hong Kong. Starting in lighting design after her
architectural degree in 1989 she has focused on architectural lighting design with
the interpretation of materials and space as tools for the upcoming designs. She
develops lighting solutions which are innovative, sustainable and people based. Ms.
Wilkins is a Professional Member of the IALD and the Deutscher Werkbund.

Being able to measure the amount, as well as the quality and the distribution
of the light leaving an LED light source, has turned out to be a valuable tool in
education and specifcation as well as quality assurance. By having a portable,
calibrated photometer one can act professionally in both illuminating engineering
and purchase. This presentation will show how easy it is to document photometric
characteristics and it raises the question of why these data sometimes are so hard
to get. This presentation will provide a comprehensive list of what to ask for and how
to evaluate the data at hand. Audience members will be better qualifed customers
and better prepared suppliers. This presentation will remove some of the myths that
still surround the LED light source.
Henrik Clausen has been involved in lighting for over 28 years in both commercial
and academic positions. Henrik helped to pioneer the use of lighting application
software to aid custom manufacturing of fxtures, always working closely with
architects interior designers, and specialist lighting designers. In 2004 he founded
the Fagerhult Lighting Academy, based in Copenhagen. Henrik also appears as
guest speaker at Universities around the world.

12:00 12:30 PANEL DISCUSSION

Speakers in this session will participate in the panel discussion

12:30 13:30

Delegate Lunch

13:30 15:00 SESSION 5: MARKET TRENDS

Platinum Room 1, Level 3

13:30 14:00 Trends in Technologies, Market and

Policies from the Perspective of the European
Lighting Association, Lighting Europe
Diederik de Stoppelaar, Secretary General, Lighting Europe, Belgium
The lighting industry in Europe is facing unprecedented challenges and exciting
opportunities with the transition to LEDs and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies
allowing intelligent networks. New services and business models appear by offering
human centric lighting or smart services going beyond lighting.The changes in
business are closely followed by policy makers. LightingEurope is in the midst of
policy making by representing directly and indirectly - around one thousand
lighting manufacturers in front of the European Commission, the European
Parliament and the Council.Policy trends such as energy effciency, including
systems performance, sustainability, including circular economy concepts, material
effciency and hazardous materials, and smart lighting, including data driven
manufacturing and digital single markets, are driving the EU legislation.
With over 25 years of experience in the lighting industry, Diederik de Stoppelaar
is the global General Manager for the Vertical Outdoor within GE Lighting. In this
role, Mr. de Stoppelaar provides the market vision, linking industry and customers
desires with GEs Lighting technology roadmap for Outdoor. Prior to joining GE, he
has served in various management roles within Philips Lighting, as Chief Marketing
Offcer of Thorn Lighting, Regional Commercial Director of Zumtobel, and Vice
President for Sales, Europe and Africa, of Lutron.

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Pedro Carreira, Associate Director - R&D Department, EDP Energia de
Portugal S.A., Portugal
In an effort to optimize street light operation, EDP Distribuio has been
implementing several solutions (smart LED luminaries, light fux regulation systems,
control of LED luminaires based on voltage wave suppression). However, some of
these measures had signifcant social impact for citizens, which generated some
unrest. Street lighting is one of the most important public services and users
will accept these new solutions only if they dont perceive them as implicating a
decrease in their safety and comfort levels. To overcome these resistances by local
citizens and identify the best street light regulation, EDP Distribuio decided to
launch a study to further investigate the social impact of these solutions on three
different types of customers: urban, suburban and nearby rural environment. The
study involved tree different cities and more than 2000 interviews during different
periods in a qualitative and quantitative approach.
Pedro Carreira is an Electrotechnical Engineer in Telecommunications. He joined
EDP D in 2001 where he served as telecommunication investment and project
manager until his appointment as a member of the Innovation and Development
Department. Since 2013 Pedro Carreira has been responsible for the Innovation
and Development Department of EDP Distribuio, which acts as an enabler of
new technologies, developing and testing innovative, pioneering more effcient
technologies.

14:30 15:00 Russian SSL Market: Time is Ripe?

Vladimir Gabrielyan, President, Lighting Business Consulting, Russian
Federation
In 2011-2014 the Russian SSL market experienced strong growth: market volume
has been doubling every year and achieved over 100 million LED lamps and over 10
million LED luminaries in 2014. The number of SSL brands present on the market
reached 500+. Is it the right time to enter the market? Yet, at the end of 2014 the
economic crisis went into a critical phase and the national currency was devalued
twice. The Government of the Russian Federation pledged to strive towards an
energy effcient economy and announced an import substitution policy support.
Is it the right time to build an industrial presence? 2015 is the year of adoption of
new Technical Regulations. These Technical Regulations will concern energy-using
products (including LED lamps). Is it the right time to design products according to
these new requirements? This presentation will analyze the current situation of the
Russian SSL market and its prospects for the mid and long term and will try to help
to answer the question Is it the right time for....?
Vladimir Gabrielyan has held general management positions since 1991 in
Russia, Central and Eastern Europe with leading multinational companies in the
healthcare, lifestyle and lighting industry sectors. He has strong expertise in B2G,
B2B, B2C and FMCG. From 1997 he worked for 15 years for Philips Lighting in
various functions and geographies building the leadership position of the company,
including in Russia as Regional Sales Manager, National Sales Manager and General
Manager, and in Central and Eastern Europe as GM for Russia & CIS and VicePresident and General Manager for Market Group Central and Eastern Europe.

TECHNOLOGY TRENDS &

ISSUES TRACK
Platinum Room 2, Level 3

09:00 10:30 SESSION 3: OUTDOOR LIGHTING/

SMART CITIES
09:00 09:20 Assessing the Merits of Smart Lighting
Controls Alongside LED Street Lighting
Will Gibson, Executive Director, Telensa Ltd., UK
The largest 20 LED global street light replacement projects total four million street
lights. With dramatic energy savings, product improvements and reduced prices,
such projects are now in the no brainer category, not only for municipalities but
now for utilities as well. To what extent are smart controls an integral part of this
rapid adoption of LED in street lighting? As world leader in street lighting controls,
with networks operating at scales over 100,000 units, Telensa can provide insight
on the current state of the smart controls market and how it is adding value to this
signifcant change in street lighting. This presentation comprises an overview of the
circumstances and requirements for controls with LED in different territories around
the world. Drawing on direct experience in Europe, the Americas and other regions,
the drivers and challenges for controls in LED street lighting will be assessed.
As a co-founder of Telensa Ltd, a spin off from communications technology
company Plextek, Will Gibson has been a key part of the team that has brought
Telensas street lighting and smart cities solutions from initial concept to marketable
systems. Telensa is a further example of Wills 25 year experience and background
in bringing new radio and telecommunications products and services to market. He
is a graduate of Oxford University.

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14:00 14:30 Receptivity to New Technologies for

Public Street Lighting Optimization

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09:20 09:40 IoT in Cities: Illuminating the Path
to Energy Savings, Risk Mitigation and Enhanced
Citizen Services
Sean Harrington, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Business
Development, Sensity Systems, USA
What if a luminaire with LEDs could be thought of essentially as a computer system
that has constant power and can be wirelessly connected - like an iPhone in every
light becoming an intelligent node sensing the world around it? While the many are
simply focusing on the light produced, there is a greater opportunity when the lights
are thought of as sensing nodes that can alter the trajectory of virtually every person
on the planet - a new lighting infrastructure called: Light Sensory Network. Imagine
embedding networking technology and sensors within LED luminaires themselves,
and using the energy-effcient LED lighting as the foundation and cost justifcation
to then deliver all kinds of new global applications and services to enhance citizen
services, increase productivity, and even create new revenue streams including:
security (including video security), parking management, retail customer analytics,
traffc analytics, seismic studies, and asset management to track goods.
Sean Harrington is the senior vice president of Sales and Marketing for Sensity
Systems, where he engages and develops corporate partnerships that enable the
company to achieve its market potential, expand its product offerings, and realize
its vision for Light Sensory Networks. Before Sensity, he ran Opowers sales and
business development for the western United States and Canada, working directly
with utilities, regulators, politicians, and other stakeholders.

09:40 10:00 Smart Lighting: The New Imperative for

the Sustainable Development of Cities
Gianni Minetti, President and Chief Executive Offcer, Paradox
Engineering, Switzerland

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There are about four billion street lamps around the world, and the adoption of
LED lighting is still under way in most countries. Thanks to the Internet of Things
paradigm and future proof machine-to-machine applications, municipalities have
the unique opportunity to build interoperable communication infrastructures where
lamps as well as traffc lights, EV charging stations, parking lots and any other
urban object are confgured as nodes of the same citywide network. This enables
public lighting to be managed more effciently, optimizing energy consumption and
improving quality of service, thus increasing quality of life for people and businesses.
As the United Nations proclaimed 2015 as the International Year of Light, smart
lighting is imperative for the sustainable development of our cities.
Founder and CEO of Paradox Engineering, Gianni Minetti is currently responsible
for corporate governance, business development, innovation, employee engagement
and operational effciency. Before establishing Paradox Engineering in 2005,
he worked as director of information systems in international corporations and
as consultant in project management, leadership, and software engineering
methodologies. Gianni Minetti graduated in Computer Science at Universit degli
Studi in Milan (Italy) and has two masters degrees in Project Management at the
Project Management Institute in Vancouver.

10:00 10:30 PANEL DISCUSSION

Speakers in this session will participate in the panel discussion

10:30 11:00

11:00 12:30 SESSION 4: ENERGY ASPECTS

OF LIGHTING SYSTEMS
11:00 11:30 Is Smart Wireless Lighting also Energy
Smart?
Casper Kofod, Director, Energy Piano, Denmark
Smart LED lamps offer change of the colour, dimming and programmed scenes,
prolonging of the lamp life, and constant fux, and they can act as Wi-Fi nodes
in museums, exhibition halls and shopping centers. The communication might
include lighting gateways if a special protocol (e.g. Zigbee or 6LoWPAN) is used
for lamp communication. Collection of the frst preliminary smart lamp test results
from Australia, the EU and the USA expose that with a lamp on-time of 1-2 hours
per day, the standby consumption can easily be larger than the energy used for
providing lighting. In the worst case, the real effcacy might be close to the level
of incandescent lamps. Currently, there are no regulations that encapsulate the
standby consumption for new smart lamps. The IEA 4E SSL Annex has launched
a new study to provide an overview, conduct measurements, propose an interim
energy measurement methodology and consider energy saving potentials.
Casper Kofod is Director of Energy piano, an independent consultancy company
formed in 1999 working for the Danish Energy Agency (DEA), the European
Community (EC), the International Energy Agency (IEA), the World Bank, Energinet.
dk (TSO), the association of Danish utilities, utilities, municipalities and industries
within lighting, AMR and DR. Within lighting Casper Kofod is a consultant for DEA,
for EC concerning harmonisation of regulation and standardisation, international
R&D projects, and is also secretary for the EU LED Quality Charter and a member of
the IEA SSL annex.

11:30 12:00 Meeting the Challenges of Cost and

Effciency Presented by Smart Lighting in Consumer
Applications
Andrew Smith, Senior Product Marketing Manager,
Power Integrations, USA
Smart lighting, enabled by LED technology, is emerging for both commercial and
consumer applications, but its successful implementation requires a system-level
analysis of effciency and cost. Smart lighting relies on increasingly-sophisticated
lighting control. Bringing the bulb within the control of a computer system offers
numerous benefts including a reduction in wasted power. The challenge that smart
lighting must now face is how to add this extra control without compromising the
effciency improvements that drove the introduction of LED lighting in the frst place.
This presentation discusses the conficting challenges of system design effciency
and cost. It will review effciency legislation, techniques for improving LED driver
effciency and reliability including system standby power, and present power supply
architectures that minimize power consumption during idle periods.
Andrew Smith is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Power Integrations,
responsible for developing Power Integrations LED driver business. His previous
roles at Power Integrations include Engineering Training Manager. Before joining PI,
Andrew spent 11 years as a power supply design engineer before transitioning to
a sales and marketing role. He holds a First Class Honors degree in Electrical and
Electronic Engineering from Middlesex University, UK.

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12:00 12:30 Harnessing Power over Ethernet
for Smarter Lighting

14:00 14:30 Junction to Air: System Optimisation

James Reeves, Chief Executive Offcer, Litecool Ltd, UK

Wayne Howell, Chief Executive Offcer, Artistic Licence, UK

The growth of the LED market is driving a natural convergence with the IT sector
networks provide highly suitable infrastructure for sophisticated control and
monitoring. But can we get really smart and use the network cable to deliver not
just the data, but the power too? The PoE (Power over Ethernet) standard provides
the means, but it is only with the very recent advent of PoE++ (potentially providing
up to 90W) that the technology is ripe for lighting applications. Power over Ethernet
enables DC voltage to be supplied direct to the LED, eliminating the need for a
mains power cable. Consumers will no longer require an electrician to reconfgure
their lighting; instead, existing IT infrastructure is leveraged, with power distribution
based on an internationally recognized standard. The presentation will explore these
exciting possibilities following a basic technology overview.
Wayne Howell is the CEO of Artistic Licence, the lighting controls company that he
founded in 1988. From early work in live entertainment, a product range evolved,
and the company is now a major name in architectural lighting. Wayne was a key
contributor to the development of the DMX512-A and RDM protocols. But he is
perhaps best known as the inventor of Art-Net, the public domain Ethernet protocol
now supported by over 160 manufacturers worldwide.

12:30 13:30

Delegate Lunch

13:30 15:00 SESSION 5: THERMAL

MANAGEMENT
13:30 14:00 Development of Gas-Cooled LED
Lamps
James Hooker, R&D Manager LED & Special Lamps, Havells Sylvania
Lighting Belgium NV, Belgium
This presentation delivers an insight into the development of an entirely new class
of LED light source, which realises a technologically and commercially signifcant
marriage of solid-state and classical technologies, by drawing on the scientifc and
manufacturing principles of the ordinary incandescent lamp in a particularly elegant
fashion. A novel approach which replaces traditional solid heat sinks by a gas-phase
cooling system has led to a notable increase in luminous effcacy, combined with
unexpected spinoffs in the optical performance and aesthetic appearance of the
fnished products.

Great component design doesnt always lead to great system performance. By

designing the whole system from junction-to-air it is possible to double lumen
output or half the size of the heat sink. James Reeves will explore the opportunities
for full system thermal design from LED junction to air and what performance and
cost advantages are available. This presentation will provide crucial information on
how an LED system works properly - its just too easy to make mistakes. Adding up
thermal resistances from datasheets rarely gives the right answer. Cool heat sinks
mean that they are not working effectively and some low thermal resistance LEDs
could actually increase system level thermal resistance.
James Reeves fled his frst patent at the age of 20 and hasnt stopped innovating
since. He is renowned for challenging the norm and bringing together dissimilar
technologies to create something new. Previously he developed new technologies
for the automotive, aerospace and HVAC sectors but his innovative nature is most
evident in Litecool where he has built a company with thermal technology that
outperforms all other LED packages in the market.

14:30 15:00 Using Nanoceramic to Enhance the

Performance of LED Subsystems at Reduced Cost
Giles Humpston, Field Applications Engineer, Cambridge Nanotherm,
UK
This paper will present a unique nanoceramic that possesses novel properties. By
its growth on aluminium, using an electrolytic process, it is possible to manufacture
PCBs with similar thermal attributes to aluminium nitride substrates but at a fraction
of the cost. Nanoceramic can be engineered to provide suffciently high breakdown
voltage to meet UL8750 and carry a wiring trace suitable for high heat fux LEDs.
Selected physical, electrical and mechanical properties of nanoceramic will be
discussed and compared with bulk ceramics and other dielectric coating materials.
Independent tests that verify the performance advantages for HB LEDs in terms of
reduced die temperature and increased Lumen output will be shared. The study will
conclude by considering the implication of the results for further decreasing lighting
subsystems cost by reducing the LED die count.
Dr. Giles Humpston is a metallurgist by profession and has a doctorate in alloy
phase equilibria. He is a cited inventor on numerous patents and publishes regularly
in the scientifc and technical literature, including co-authorship of four text books.
Dr Humpston currently works as the Field Applications Manager for Cambridge
Nanotherm on thermal management technologies.

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James Hooker is LED R&D Manager at Havells-Sylvania, based at the companys

factory and central laboratories in Tienen, Belgium. Since a young age he has
been fascinated by the creation and application of light, and has contributed to the
development of numerous innovative light sources. Beyond this role he represents
the company on various international standardising bodies as well as at political
levels, shaping the policies that infuence the future trends of the lighting business.

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FLOOR PLAN AND EXHIBITOR LIST

FOR STRATEGIES IN LIGHT EUROPE AND LUXLIVE

Key:

Strategies in Light Europe

Exhibitor
Abacus Lighting Ltd
Acal BFi UK Ltd
Adata Ltd
Alanod GmbH & Co.KG
ALP Europe
ALPHA
Aluminium Shapes Ltd
Amphenol LTW Technology Co.,
Anyhope Technology Limited
Applelec Sign Components
Arianna SpA
Arrow Central Europe GMBH
Artistic Licence Engineering Ltd
Astute Lighiting
Aurora Lighting Ltd
AVATAR INDUSTRIAL LTD
B.E.G (UK) Ltd
Beckhoff Automation Ltd
Bentham Instruments
Binder UK
BIRMINGHAM ALUMINIUM LIMITED
BJB GmbH & Co. KG
BLT Circuit Services Ltd
Brackenheath
Bri-Tek Technologies Ltd
British Electric Lamps Ltd
C&W Seails
CAMBRIDGE NANOTHERM LTD

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LUXLIVE

Booth
L30
A52
H9
D19
K9
C29
C51
N30
A28
R38
M36
L34
C30
B52
K6
A31
R57
J51
C18
C31
D33
B9
C23
F48
P52
N9
A6
A46

Exhibitor
Carbon Reduction Technology
Carclo Optics
CHANGZHOU FUXING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE CO., LTD
Changzhou Gaorui Electric Co.,Ltd
CHANGZHOU LIANGTAI ILLUMINATING CO., LTD
CHUN KUANG OPTICS CORP
CITEL-2CP
Cofan USA Inc
CR Lighting
cTech Ltd
CU Phosco Lighting
DANLERS Limited
Data Direct Ltd
DELO INDUSTRIAL ADHESIVES
Detail Forma Lighting (Italia) SRL
Devtech M2M Pte. Ltd.
Dextra Group Plc
DW Windsor Lighting
DYNALUXX INDUSTRIAL LTD
Earlsmann Lighting Ltd
EEE - Empresa de Equipamento Electrico.
eldoLED B.V.
Electro Cirkel B.V.
ELT
Fischer Elektronik GmbH & Co. KG
Flex Connectors Limited
Forge Europa
Franklite Limited

Booth
C53
C2
A26
B29
B25
A18
C36
B5
A45
D51
L14
D43
L40
C41
R32
B26
H33
J29
K1
E47
M14
K18
F44
E53
D53
D52
H5
H13

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GIELIGHT CO.,LTD.
Gigahertz-Optik GmbH (Headquarter)
GloboLED
GOOEE
Gripple Ltd UK
Guangzhou Snover Expo Co., Ltd
GVA Lighting Inc.
Hamilton Litestat
Hangzhou HPWINNER Opto Corporation
Hangzhou Sky-lighting Co.,Ltd
Harvard Engineering Ltd
Helvar Ltd
Hess GmbH Licht + Form
Hirose Electric Europe B.V., UK Branch
Hochiki Europe
Holders Components Ltd
HOLOPHANE EUROPE LTD
Huadian Lighting
Hylec APL
HYTRONIK UK
IGuzzini Illuminazione UK Ltd
Illuma Lighting
INSTRUMENT SYSTEMS GMBH
INVENTRONICS (HANGZHOU) INC
IR-TEC International Ltd.
Jake Dyson Light
Jiaxing Ledux Lighting Co.,Ltd
Key Lighting
KHATOD OPTOELECTRONIC S.r.l.
Kingfsher Lighting Ltd.
Kosnic (UK) Ltd
LCL Electronics Ltd
LeaderLight Ltd
LED By Lighting
Led Linear UK
LED Technic
LEDS C4
LEDs CHAT
Leds ON
LEELUX INDUSTRY CO., LTD
Light Engines Europe Ltd
LIGHT TEC
LIGHTING TECHNOLOGIES EUROPE GMBH
LPA Excil Electronics
Lucem Technologies Ltd
Lucy Zodion Ltd
Lumenia d.o.o
Lumenpulse-AlphaLED
Lumileds
Luxonic Lighting
Malmbergs Elektriska AB
Marl International Ltd
Metway Electrical Industries Ltd.
MHA Lighting Ltd
Momentum Circuits
Multek Flexible Circuits, Inc.
MX Lightforce
My Light Ltd
NICOLAUDIE EUROPE
Ningbo New Oriental Electric Ind.Dev.Co.,Ltd
NINGBO SHENGHE LIGHTING CO.,LTD.
Ningbo Snappy Optoelectronics Co.,Ltd.
Ningbo Well Made Electrical Co.,Ltd
NINGBO YIYUAN LIGHTING TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD.
NJO Technology
Nobile Italia SpA
NRG Illumination Limited

Booth
A29
C13
J25
D25
G47
A47
R33
M18
B19
A32
C6
H29
R30
B44
B51
C35
K14
C40
E51
C14
P15
F2
B6
B18
E44
R14
B27
L1
A44
G25
J6
A48
L26
J26
R26
N2
N26
C48
B53
B45
G34
C27
C44
K48
B54
D44
E48
R44
G13
M9
P48
K26
D48
L9
B43
B28
B12
C52
H47
A12
A30
B13
B23
A27
C3
M26
P54

Exhibitor
NVC (Manufacturing) Limited
OEM CONSULTANTS LTD
OK LED Lighting Limited
OLEDCOMM SAS
One Electrical Ltd
Optical Coating Technologies Ltd.
Optonica LED Kft
OrangeTek
P&Q Lighting
Pal Lighting
Panasonic Electric Works UK
Pegasus
Pharos Architectural Controls Ltd
Photometric and Optical Testing
Plessey Semi Conductors
Portman Sales Partner Ltd
Printed Systems Limited
Pro-Lite Technology Ltd.
QSSI
Rako Controls Ltd
Recolight
Rickbery Industrial Europe Ltd
Ricoman Ltd
Rishang Lighting
Roal Electronics
Robe UK Ltd
Salix Finance
Sapa Profles UK Ltd
Saturn Electrical Distribution Ltd
Seaward Group
Segula (UK) LTD
SH Lighting
Shanghai Euchips Industrial CO.,LTD.
SHANGHAI MOONS AUTOMATION CONTROL CO., LTD.
Shangyu Yuexing Lighting Trade Co.,Ltd
Shenzen Brightlx Technology Co.,Ltd
Shenzhen Fluence Technology Co.,Ltd.
Shine Run
Solid State Supplies
Solutions Lighting
Spirit Circuits
Steinel (UK) Limited
Stontronics Ltd.
Styron Europe GmbH
Tamlite Lighting
Tci Telecomunicazioni Italia s.r.l.
Telematics Wireless
Thomas and Betts
Thorlux Lighting
Tianlai Industry Co.,Ltd
Tii Technologies
Trilux Lighting Ltd UK
UK LED Ltd
VEKO Lightsystems International
Venture Lighting Europe Ltd
Verbatim Ltd UK
Vestel
Viking Tech Corporation
Viribright Lighting Ltd.
Virtual Extension Ltd.
VIZULO
V-TAC (UK) Ltd
WPS
ZHEJIANG HENGDIAN TOSPO IMP. & EXP CO., LTD.
ZHENJIANG ZHENDONG ELECTROLUMINE SCENCE CO.,LTD
Zumtobel Lighting UK

Booth
K44
A43
A14
N51
N49
C43
C26
H25
A51
G1
A5
A49
D47
C45
E26
C20
D29
C47
H17
P30
N29
B48
G39
H54
H1
P26
P58
M1
E30
D35
R6
N45
B38
D14
A24
C9
C19
A53
D57
P50
E43
B40
C34
B8
D6
E34
H52
D34
K30
A15
B1
K34
C1
G43
N5
N35
H14
B30
E14
B47
L48
G5
J9
B11
B31
P19

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Exhibitor

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EXHIBITING OPPORTUNITIES
WHY EXHIBIT
RAISE YOUR PROFILE AT STRATEGIES IN LIGHT EUROPE
Strategies in Light Europe and co-located LuxLive represent a ideal opportunity to demonstrate your expertise, provide solutions to potential clients and
promote your company as a market leader in front of the entire industry supply chain, from chip manufacturing, through the design community, to the
end user.
With a winning combination of a world class conference programme and an exhibition that showcases the latest technological advances, Strategies in
Light Europe & LuxLive is a must attend event for LED Lighting professionals
Book a space at Strategies in Light Europe to ensure you get to meet high level decision makers face to face and promote your companys technology and
solutions. If youre not there your clients could be meeting with your competitors!
WHO ATTENDS
As an exhibitor or sponsor of Strategies in Light Europe and LuxLive, you will have the opportunity to meet qualifed senior management and executive
decision makers who have the authority to purchase, or infuence the purchase of, world-class products and services.
LED manufacturers
LED distributors
Suppliers of equipment and materials to the LED industry
LED system manufacturers
Lighting architects
Automotive lighting suppliers
Lighting product manufacturers

Lighting system designers

LED product designers
Corporate R&D staff
Government regulators
Electric utility demandside analysts
Financial analysts, investment bankers, and venture capitalists
Manufacturers of LED test and measurement equipment

COST TO EXHIBIT
Option 1: Exhibit Space Only (Raw Space Only)
Exhibit space only rate is 360 per sqm.
Exhibit Space Only Includes: One (1) Individual 2-Day conference registration and two (2) exhibit staff passes with each 3m x 3m unit.
Option 2: Shell Scheme Package
The Shell Scheme Package rate is 389 per sqm.
LIA Members Shell Scheme rate is 380 per sqm.
Shell Scheme package includes: Exhibit space, shell scheme walls and fascia board, stand number and company name (20 letters per open aisle side), carpet.
Option 3: Shell Scheme PLUS Package
The Shell Scheme Plus Package Rate is 3,995 per 3m x 3m.
LIA Members Shell Scheme PLUS Package rate is 3,875 per 3m x 3m
Shell Scheme PLUS package includes: Exhibit space, shell scheme walls and fascia board,stand number and company name (20 letters per open aisle
side), carpet, one (1) track with 3 spotlights, one (1) electrical socket 1km, one (1) table, two (2) chairs, one (1) Individual 2-Day conference, registration,
and two (2) exhibit staff passes with each 3m x 3m unit.

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Note: Other discounts may apply. All discounts are taken at the time of signing and apply to raw space only.
Note: Electrical requirements must be ordered and paid separately
COMPULSORY BASIC LISTING:
COMPULSORY BASIC LISTING IS 156
Includes: 50 Word company description online 35 Word company description in show guide 3 Product categories

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EXHIBITING OPPORTUNITIES
LISTING UPGRADE OPTIONS
GOLD PACKAGE - 286 (ONLY 130 MORE
THAN BASIC LISTING)

PLATINUM PACKAGE - 540 (ONLY 384

MORE THAN BASIC LISTING)

ELITE PACKAGE - 1,036 (ONLY 496 MORE

THAN PLATINUM PACKAGE)

INCLUDES:
Basic Listing details PLUS+
100 word company description online
75 word company description in show guide
7 product listings and categories online
Bolded company description in show guide
Logo in show guide
1 Show Special
2 Press Releases

INCLUDES:
Basic Listing details PLUS+
150 word company description online
150 word company description in show guide
10 product listings and categories online
Bolded company description in show guide
Logo in show guide
Upgrade level at top of exhibitor list
5 show specials
Enhanced listing icon on online interactive
foor plan

INCLUDES:
Basic Listing details PLUS+
150 word company description online
150 word company description in show guide
20 product listings and categories online
Bolded company description in show guide
Logo in show guide
10 show specials
8 press releases
Web analytic reporting on event map activity

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
RAISE YOUR COMPANYS PROFILE, DRIVE TRAFFIC TO YOUR BOOTH & ACHIEVE TANGIBLE RESULTS
When you book a booth at Strategies in Light Europe, enhance your investment with targeted sponsorship packages that take advantage of the worldwide
reach of our publications, e-newsletters and sister events.
Together these elements provide the essential differentiators that drive traffc to your booth and justifes your investment.
For further information please contact your local sales representative

SALES
Germany/Switzerland/Austria:
Johann Bylek
+49 (0) 89-90480-143
johannb@pennwell.com

USA West Coast:

Tim Carli
+1 (650) 946 3163
tcarli@pennwell.com

USA East Coast:

Katrina Frazer
+1 (603) 891-9186
katrinaf@pennwell.com

EXHIBITOR SERVICES

OPERATIONS

MARKETING

CONFERENCE

Senior Exhibitor Services

Manager:
Karina Anderson
+44 (0) 1992 656 615
karinaa@pennwell.com

Operations Manager:
Kelsey Grisham
+1 (918) 831-9180
kelseys@pennwell.com

Marketing Team Lead:

Crispin Coulson
+44 (0) 1992 656 646
crispinc@pennwell.com

Conference Manager:
Emily Pryor
+44 (0) 1992 656 614
emilyp@pennwell.com

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International
James Pountney
+44 (0) 20 3283 4387
+44 (0) 7860 775 623
james.pountney@luxreview.com

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PUBLIC RELATIONS AND SOCIAL MEDIA

PennWell has appointed Content Communications as its offcial Public Relations consultancy for Strategies in Light Europe.
Maximise your presence through PR
As an exhibitor you have a number of opportunities to promote your organisations presence at Strategies in Light Europe. The closer you work with
Content Communications, the more likely the event will be a success for you.
DONT MISS OUT it doesnt cost you anything and there are many different ways exhibitors can get involved in the PR campaign including:
By-lined opinion articles
There are a number of European publications that are keen to receive by-lined articles from exhibitors in all languages. If you send us an 800-1000 word
thought leadership article we will try to place it for you. To secure the placement of your articles they will need to be opinion based and non-company or
product-centric. For style guidelines please contact Content Communications.
Quotes for your press releases
If you are sending out a press release and would like to include a quote from a relevant PennWell representative Content Communications can help get an
appropriate expert to provide comment.
In-house publications and website promotion
If you run an in-house publication and would like to publish a preview of the show alongside what you will be doing at the event to distribute internally or
to your clients and partners, or would like to promote your presence at the event on your website we can assist with content, logos and images.
Public Relations
Joanna Watchman
Content Communications
Tel.: +44 (0) 7802 802252
Email: joanna.watchman@contentcoms.co.uk

SOCIAL MEDIA
Social Media Involvement
Engage yourself in the Strategies in Light Europe social channels. Dont just follow us, get involved in conversations and post information about your
company, especially if you are taking part in Strategies in Light Europe. If you are a speaker promote your sessions. Encourage attendance to YOUR
session/s - provide followers with an insiders look at what will be discussed.
LinkedIn is a perfect avenue for you to engage fellow industry professionals and start conversations before you even get to the event.
We encourage you to post questions, ideas and industry hot topics to our Group.
Tweet about your session/s on our Twitter page and use the hashtag - #SILEurope
Like us on Facebook and share your updates on our wall and use our hashtags below
Post details or updates about your session/s and link them back to your session details on the conference page on your personal social sites
Retweet/Share/Repost from our event channels to yours
Images are KEY - Post images of your products and personnel attending the show.

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Download the Registration Banner Ads from our exhibitor marketing toolkit and post them on your

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2015 CONFERENCE & EXPO REGISTRATION FORM

Co-located with:

4 WAYS TO REGISTER
1. Online: Visit www.sileurope.com and register on the
registration page of our website.
2. By Fax: Fax your completed reg form to: +1 918 831 9161
or toll free (US only): +1 888 299 8057

17 - 19 November 2015
ExCel, London, UK

3. By Mail: Strategies in Light Europe Conference & Exhibition

Registration, P.O Box 973059, Dallas, TX 75397 -3059
4. By Email: Scan your completed registration form and email
to: registration@pennwell.com

First name ____________________________________________________________ Surname ___________________________________________

Title/Position _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Company________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Address_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Address 2 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
City ____________________________________________________________________ State ___________________________________________
Country __________________________________________________________Zip/Postal Code ___________________________________________
Telephone _________________________________________________________________Fax ___________________________________________
Email __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Registration confrmation will be sent via email, if a unique email address is provided above.

PLEASE COMPLETE THIS SECTION TO RECEIVE AN ADMISSION BADGE

Supply Chain
21 Distributor
24 Lighting Representative
25 Lighting Manufacturer
09 Purchasing
01 Management (Executive, General)
99 Other
Product/System Design and Development
14 Design Engineer
05 Engineering Management
07 Product Engineering & Manufacturing
08 Product Manager/System Design
02 Corporate R&D
27 Industrial Designer
10 Research & Development (Academic,
Government)
12 Test, Measurement, Quality Control
28 Management (Executive, General)
Miscellaneous
26 Investment/Financial
98 Other

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2. WHAT BEST DESCRIBES YOUR ORGANIZATIONS

ACTIVITY? (SELECT ONE)
Technology
12 Lighting Manufacturer
08 LED/Chip Manufacturer
17 Engineering
02 Display/Signage Manufacturer
18 Automotive/Transportation
04 Drivers & Power Supplies
06 End User of LED Products
19 ICs, Thermal, Optical Interconnect, Etc.
10 Light Engine/LED Module Supplier
14 OEM that Integrates LED Products
15 Optical Design & Integration
16 Test Services, Equipment
07 Utility/Municipal/Government
05 Education/ University
Lighting
20 Lighting Design
21 Interior Design
01 Architecture
22 Landscape Architecture
11 Lighting Installer
23 Building Owner/Management
24 Energy Service Company (ESCO)
25 General Contractor and Construction
26 Corporate/Government Facility
27 Institution Lighting (school, hospital, other)
03 Distributor
98 Other
3. WHAT APPLICATIONS ARE YOU INVOLVED IN?
(CHECK ALL THAT APPLY)
01 General Lighting
02 Entertainment & Decorative Lighting
03 Architectural Lighting
04 Signs & Displays
05 Vehicles
06 Mobile Appliances
07 Signals
08 Industrial and Medical
09 Backlighting & Projections
16 Commercial/Hospitality
(hotels, resort, convention, etc.)

17 Education/Institutional/College
18 Museum/Gallery
10 Residential
11 Retail/Restaurant
12 Sports/Recreation
13 Transportation Terminals
15 Utility/Municipal
19 Solar Lighting
98 Other
4. WHAT PRODUCTS DO YOU PURCHASE OR SPECIFY?
(CHECK ALL THAT APPLY)
01 Assembly & Manufacturing Equipment
02 Backlighting Modules
03 Chip-on Board Arrays
04 Design/Engineering Services
06 Drivers ICs
07 Drivers & Controllers
08 Encapulants, Gels, Bonding Materials
09 Epitaxial Equipment & Materials
10 Epitaxial Wafers
11 Insulated Metal Substrates
12 LED Chips
13 LED Packages (*White, RGB, SMT, etc.)
14 Light Engines & Modules
15 Lighting Fixtures
16 OLED Displays
17 OLED Materials & MFG Equipment
18 Optical Design Software & Services
19 Optics, Lens, Diffusers
20 PCBs & Heat Sinks
21 Phosphors
22 Power Suppliers

23 Signs, Channel Letters

24 Surface Mount LEDs
25 Test & Measurement Equipment
26 Light Sources
27 Lighting Products
28 Lighting Related Technology
99 None of the above
5. WHAT TECHNOLOGIES ARE YOU INVOLVED IN?
(CHECK ALL THAT APPLY)
01 Patents & Licensing
02 White LEDs & Color Mixing
03 Packaging & Optics
04 High-Power LEDs, Arrays & Modules
05 Drivers & Control
06 Test, Measurement & Standards
07 Chip Design & Manufacturing
08 OLEDs
09 Indoor Lighting
10 Outdoor Lighting
98 Other
6. WHAT TYPE OF INFORMATION ARE YOU
INTERESTED IN?
01 Applications
02 Business
11 Design Techniques/Hand-on
03 Energy Effciency & Sustainability
04 Events News & Reports
06 Financial
07 Market Research
08 Products
10 Technology

Would you like to receive (or continue receiving) FREE electronic issues of LEDS Magazine?
Yes

No

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DATE

Would you like to receive (or continue receiving) FREE electronic newsletters? (PLEASE CHECK ALL THAT APPLY)
LEDs Magazine Weekly eNewsletter
LEDs Magazine Monthly Product Focus eNewsletter
LEDs Magazine Monthly Outdoor LED Lighting eNewsletter

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1. PLEASE INDICATE YOUR JOB FUNCTION

(SELECT ONE)
Lighting Designers/Specifers
16 Lighting Designer
17 Interior Designer
15 Architect
22 Facility Manager/Building Owner
20 Contractor
23 Landscape Architect
04 End User of LED/Lighting Products
03 Management (Executive, General)
97 Other Lighting Specifer

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2015 CONFERENCE & EXPO REGISTRATION FORM

Co-located with:

4 WAYS TO REGISTER
1. Online: Visit www.sileurope.com and register on the
registration page of our website.
2. By Fax: Fax your completed reg form to: +1 918 831 9161
or toll free (US only): +1 888 299 8057
3. By Mail: Strategies in Light Europe Conference & Exhibition
Registration, P.O Box 973059, Dallas, TX 75397 -3059

17 - 19 November 2015 ExCel, London, UK

REGISTRATION FEES

4. By Email: Scan your completed registration form and email

to: registration@pennwell.com

Early Bird Registration must be paid on or before 11 September 2015

TOTAL ACCESS PASS - BEST VALUE:

Includes Investor Forum (17 November), Conference (18-19 November), Conference Proceedings, Exhibition, lunch and coffee breaks
Early Bird Rate Paid on or before 11 September 2015

700

Paid After 11 September 2015

850

INVESTOR FORUM
Tuesday 17 November 2015
Includes access to Investor Forum only with lunch and coffee breaks
Early Bird Rate Paid on or before 11 September 2015

250

Paid After 11 September 2015

300

2 DAY CONFERENCE:
Includes Conference (18 - 19 November), Conference Proceedings, Exhibition, lunch and coffee breaks
and Lunches (DOES NOT INCLUDE INVESTOR FORUM):
Early Bird Individual Rate Paid on or before 11 September 2015

550

Paid After 11 September 2015

590

Early Group Rate (2 or more people) Paid on or before 11 September 2015

380

Group Rate (2 or more people) Paid After 11 September 2015

410

SINGLE DAY CONFERENCE:

Includes Conference access only for the specifc date registered for Exhibition, lunch and coffee breaks only for the specifc date registered for (DOES NOT INCLUDE
INVESTOR FORUM):
Wednesday 18 November 2015
Early Bird Rate Paid on or before 11 September 2015

400

Paid After 11 September 2015

430

Thursday 19 November 2015

Early Bird Rate Paid on or before 11 September 2015

400

Paid After 11 September 2015

430

EXHIBITOR 2 DAY CONFERENCE, ADDITIONAL DELEGATE (MUST BE EXHIBITING COMPANY)

Includes Conference (18 - 19 November), Conference Proceedings, Exhibition, lunch and coffee breaks (DOES NOT INCLUDE INVESTOR FORUM):
Register before or at the event

280

ENTRY TO EXHIBITION - Includes access to Exhibit Floor. Does not include lunches. Register before event to beat the queues on the day. . . . FREE
CHEQUE ENCLOSED (in UK funds only Payable to PennWell)
WIRE (Wire instructions will be provided on invoice)
CREDIT CARD:
MASTERCARD
VISA
AMERICAN EXPRESS
DISCOVER

Please add all selections and total here:

Add 20% UK VAT:
TOTAL DUE:

___________
___________
___________

CREDIT CARD NUMBER:

EXPIRATION DATE:
FULL NAME: (As it appears on card)
CARD HOLDER SIGNATURE:

Payments must be received by published date in order to receive early registration discounts. Cancellations must be received in writing before 11th September 2015 in order to receive a refund,
minus 100 administrative charge. After 11th September 2015 refunds are not available. Substitutions may be made at anytime by contacting the registration offce in writing.

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