The industry’s new round of global LED patent competitions will bring new challenges to the industry, said Ryoichi Tohmon, Director of Intellectual Property Project of Global Marketing and Sales Department at Toyoda Gosei during a talk at LEDforum Guangzhou 2014 in Guangzhou, China on June 11, 2014.

Acuity Brands, Inc.has been officially recognized by the Lightfair International (LFI) 2014 ​ Innovation Awards competition for the Most Innovative Product of the Year award. The award designation honors Acuity Brands for its Peerless® Open LED luminaires.

Evaluating and selecting an LED driver for your project doesn't have to be a daunting task. As outlined in the previous overview, an understanding of such issues as current and voltage, LED circuit topologies, dimming and flicker considerations, and multiple/independent outputs will help you ask the right questions of your driver supplier and help identify the important features essential to optimizing your lighting system performance.

Smart, networked lighting may the next big market for building energy efficiency and automation technology. But to date, that market has been a battleground of proprietary technologies: different networks, linking up different lighting systems, in a landscape that leaves little room for future mix-and-match interoperability.

Most modern electronics, from flat-screen TVs and smartphones to wearable technologies and computer monitors, use tiny light-emitting diodes, or LEDs. These LEDs are based off of semiconductors that emit light with the movement of electrons. As devices get smaller and faster, there is more demand for such semiconductors that are tinier, stronger and more energy efficient.

Visitors to Terminal B at Newark Liberty International Airport may notice the bright, clean lighting that now blankets the cavernous interior, courtesy of 171 recently installed LED fixtures. But they probably will not realize that the light fixtures are the backbone of a system that is watching them.

Caribbean islands that pay some of the highest electricity prices in the world are in line for more than $1bn of green energy loans to reduce bills following an agreement between governments, companies, energy experts and financiers.

The rise of LED technology will transform every part of the commercial lighting industry," said Jesse Foote, an analyst at Navigant. "While other lighting technologies have limited potential for future improvements, new designs for LEDs that push quality and efficacy to new levels continue to emerge from lighting labs around the world."

The global lighting market is approximately $100 billion. While the overall market is growing modestly (around 5 percent per year) the market for LEDs is growing rapidly. Prices for LEDs have similarly come down significantly over the past few years – prices have declined at about 15 percent per year.

Fund Balance sees excellent opportunities in the private equity, early stage space LED manufacturers.