Craig DiLouie

The Department of Energy recently issued two regulatory rules related to general-service lamps (incandescent/halogen, compact fluorescent and LED) and general-service incandescent lamps. The first rule negated an Obama...

The internet of things (IoT) offers electrical contractors powerful revenue-generating service opportunities and new challenges, according to a 2019 report published by ELECTRI International. “Smart Buildings and Internet of...

Fifty-six percent of European workers said they would like better workplace lighting, according to a survey conducted by Repro-light, a European consortium dedicated to creating the “Luminaire of the Future”—a smart, modular...

In the lighting industry, protocols are sets of product design rules that regulate interoperability between control devices. As such, they are a critical aspect of a lighting control system’s operation performance and...

Additive manufacturing, popularly known as 3-D printing, is a revolutionary manufacturing process in which a material is layered to build an object under computer control based on a digital model or CAD file. The automotive...

Rebates continue to be a popular incentive for lighting upgrades. These cash awards from a utility or energy-efficient organizations reward installation of energy-efficient lighting. Rebates drive demand for energy-efficient...

In the 1890s, scientists experimenting with sunlight and filters discovered that a narrow band of the visible light spectrum (400–405 nanometers, associated with violet) was effective at killing bacteria. The idea of applying...

Networked lighting controls connect luminaires in a programmable system to offer exciting and robust capabilities. Connected lighting packages of luminaires and controls are increasingly touted as “internet of things (IoT)...

Well-suited to financing lighting upgrades in large projects, lighting as a service (LaaS) is a lighting industry business model in which the owner purchases light rather than the hardware that delivers it. The owner pays a...

Active core sunlighting is the subject of a new design guide (DG-31-18) published by the Illuminating Engineering Society. With this approach, sunlight is captured using solar-tracking optics, delivered deep within the...

Emergency lighting is lighting that stays on or automatically turns on to facilitate a building’s safe evacuation when it suffers a power outage. There is a trend of using luminaires as both general and emergency lighting...

Electrical contractors consider themselves highly influential in lighting-equipment selection for both new construction and retrofit projects. That’s one key finding from the 2019 CII Lighting Trends Survey, which ELECTRICAL...