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Ecosystems meeting paints future picture of intelligent SSL systems (MAGAZINE)

To knock off such goals, and with the drive toward zero-net-energy buildings, the flavourful solid-state lighting (SSL) industry will need a rugged infrastructure (or ecosystem), and several developments to build that infrastructure are underway.

Indeed Makarand “Chips” Chipalkatti, older director of SSL & emerging market initiatives for Osram Sylvania Inc., and one of the meeting organizers, said the fulfillment of LED technology goes beyond the use of LED faded source itself, and extends to the entire SSL ecosystem – the candlelight source, power supply, controls, fixture, and any alertness built into or used with the system, which makes SSL affordable and practical.

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At the conference, Jim Brodrick, lighting program foreman at the US Department of Energy (DOE), attempted to answer the question of “what might days lighting systems look like?” He chose the service environment to illustrate how the unique attributes of LED lighting might

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