Submit Your Proposal – LpS Digital Awards 2023

LpS Digital Awards

Lighting Innovations in the Spotlight

LpS Digital Awards 2022:
Categories

1. Product Awards (5)
Components, Modules, Final Systems, or Services. Evaluated according to the degree of innovation.

2. Sustainability Award (1)
Components, Modules, Final Systems, or Services. Evaluated according to the degree of sustainability.

3. Scientific Paper Award (1)
Lighting research papers published in 2022. Evaluated according to the scientific work, relevance for application, and degree of innovation.

4. Achievement Award (1)
A person who has fostered and uniquely developed the lighting field.

Winners receive:

  • LpS Digital Awards Certificate
  • LpS Digital Featured Talk shared with 45,000+ contacts
  • Promotion on LpS Digital and in LED professional Review
  • Featured entry in the Global Lighting Directory

Winners 2022

Product Award: Nichia’s Dynasolis
Product Award: Samsung’s LH502D
Product Award: LEDiL’s YASMEEN
Product Award: ams OSRAM’s DALI PRO 2 IoT
Product Award: EnOcean’s STM550
Sustainability Award: TE Connectivity’s LUMAWISE Motion Sensor
Scientific Best Paper Award: Dr. Eric VIREY from Yole Group
Achievement Award: Jan DENNEMAN from the GoodLightGroup

Product Award Winner:
Nichia’s Dynasolis

Statement of the Jury: “The connection between health and light is increasingly recognized in greater depth and will become even more significant in the future. The Dynasolis innovation is an entirely new LED tuning solution that regulates circadian rhythms by adjusting melanopic illuminance and color temperature while maintaining high CRI and efficacy. It is the combination of the energizing azure (sky blue) and a peaceful, calming warm white hue focusing on the non-visual element that truly addresses HCL. Applications range from medical, office, education and even residentials.”

https://led-ld.nichia.co.jp/en/product/lighting_dynasolis.html

Product Award Winner:
Samsung’s LH502D

Statement of the Jury: “In Europe, more than 50% of outdoor lighting systems are outdated. There are safety, security and consumption issues. The LH502D shows high performance in multiple core reliability tests with an increased lifetime. The new 3-layer anti-sulfurization ceramic coating technology with a 5050 LED package offers improved performance with reduced costs to support investments for new and retrofit installations – especially for harsh environments such as streets- and tunnel lighting.”

https://www.samsung.com/led/lighting/high-power-leds/5050-leds/lh502d/

Product Award Winner:
LEDiL’s YASMEEN

Statement of the Jury: “YASMEEN zoom is a zoom optic family that enables new lighting possibilities thanks to its flexibility and adaptability. YASMEEN zoom optics are unique, as they have been designed with no axially moving parts. Luminaires can be made smaller, are easier to design, and fit into existing track light concepts. YASMEEN zoom optics can be used for compact retail lighting luminaire designs that demand the flexibility of easily adjusting zoom optics in a single luminaire. YASMEEN zoom optics also support sustainability: there’s no need to replace and possibly dispose of luminaires.”

https://www.ledil.com/news_all/yasmeen-zoom-always-optimised-lighting/

Product Award Winner:
ams OSRAM’s DALI PRO 2 IoT

Statement of the Jury:  “DALI PRO 2 IoT is a lighting control technology with an integrated IoT gateway and open REST/ MQTT API provide access to cloud applications, thus enabling IoT use cases. Luminaire information, energy consumption and maintenance data can be pushed to the cloud. The Energy Monitoring and Maintenance Assistant (EM/MA) cloud service enables facility managers to monitor their lighting installations, gain insight into individual energy consumption areas, identify maintenance needs and making system updates remotely. This enables energy and cost and investment (replacements) savings.”

https://www.osram.com/ecat/

Product Award Winner:
EnOcean’s STM550

Statement of the Jury: “The STM 550 multisensor family combines temperature, humidity, lighting, acceleration, and magnetic contact sensors in a small case. The multisensor is for the EnOcean wireless standard and for Bluetooth® systems and can be used for IoT and digitized building applications. An integrated solar cell supplies the sensor itself with energy for uninterrupted operation over several days with little or no light. STM 550 operates completely maintenance-free. It can also be integrated into a wide variety of assets and therefore can be used where the data is needed: on walls, ceilings, windows, doors, furniture, active devices, and objects. The multisensor has an integrated NFC interface for configuration and commissioning.”

https://www.enocean.com/en/product/stm-550-multisensor-module/

Sustainability Award Winner:
TE Connectivity’s LUMAWISE Motion Sensor

Statement of the Jury: “LUMAWISE is a new motion sensor designed to bring sustainability and efficiency to street lighting architecture. With detection zones up to 30×6 meters and strong infrared sensing capabilities, LUMAWISE Motion Sensor can light the way, even in harsh environments. Enabling energy savings from dimming or even turning off a luminaire while still being able to react to motion and bring a luminaire to full brightness for safety and security reasons. LUMAWISE Motion will fit into the Zhaga-D4i ecosystem, which is the new standard for smart cities. It works as a standalone control device or in combination with Zhaga-D4i photocell or communication node for greater levels of controls. The sensor is a pluggable device, with the standard Zhaga book 18 interface for an easy upgrade.”

https://www.te.com/usa-en/products/connectors/lighting-connectors

Scientific Best Paper Award Winner:
Dr. Eric VIREY from Yole Group

“Will MicroLEDs Revolutionize the Display Industry?”, LpR94, Nov/Dec 2022, p46-51.
Statement of the Jury:  “The lecture gives a profound overview of technology at the edge of commercial implementation. It describes various aspects, both commercial and technological. It shows hurdles and chances and compares them with competing technologies (LCD, OLED).”

https://www.led-professional.com/lpr-magazine

Achievement Award Winner:
Jan DENNEMAN from the GoodLightGroup

Statement of the Jury: “Jan Denneman has dedicated over 40 years of his professional career to developing and promoting the lighting sector. He has initiated several international consortia, like the Global Lighting Association, Zhaga, the Connected Lighting Alliance, and LightingEurope. He also founded the GoodLightGroup, where he serves as  Chairman. He is passionate about light and health, and rethinking lighting again.”

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-denneman-a60bb57/

LpS Digital Awards 2021

At the annual LpS Digital Live Stream event (December 2, 2021), the LpS Digital Awards were presented in four specific categories.

Award Categories 2021

  1. LpS Digital – Lecture Awards
  2. LpS Digital – Sustainability Award
  3. LpS Digital – Scientific Lecture Award
  4. LpS Digital – Product Awards

Lecture Award

Mikolaj PRZYBYLA

Chief Operation Officer, GL Optic; CIE and IES Member

“Introduction to UV Light Measurement Principles – How to Measure UV LEDs Correctly”

The jury distinguishes this lecture as the most recognized presentation on LpS Digital (1,500+). Reliable UV radiation measurements are the foundation for every UV light disinfection system.

Lecture Award

Xavier DENIS

Technical Marketing Manager, Nichia Europe

“ipRGC Sensitive Optimized LED Spectrum and Its Application in Color Tunable Lighting Solutions”

The jury distinguishes this lecture as an important stimulus and technology step for human-centric / integrative lighting designs. The Cyan LED technology, based on SAE phosphors, is introduced.

Lecture Award

Musa UNMEHOPA

Head of Ecosystems and Strategic Alliances, Signify

“The Future of LiFi is Here Today”

The jury distinguishes this lecture as an important stimulus for light communication technologies and its market penetration. The lecture highlights LiFiecosystem, LiFi standardization and focuses on market/application opportunities.

Lecture & Sustainability Award

Mark RIDLER

Head of Lighting, BDP

“Overview about Circular Economy Approaches in Lighting Design and Projects”

The jury distinguishes this lecture as an important stimulus for sustainable lighting design. The presentation shows a comprehensive picture of Circular Economy in Lighting Design joined with results from research, practice and the broad expertise of the author. Additionally to the lecture, a supplementary interview on the topic of sustainability was produced.

Scientific Lecture Award

Harald HAAS

Professor, University of Strathclyde

“LiFi, The Catalyst for New LED Applications”

Prof. Haas illustrates the background for his LiFi research – the need for higher bandwidth to match the continuously growing communication data volume. He gives an overview of ongoing experimental research, focussing on open challenges and achieved results. Finally, he gives a perspective on what LiFi could mean for the lighting industry.

Product Award

H6 LED Series

Nichia

“LED Technology that Combines High Efficacy and High CRI in One Product”

The jury distinguishes this product as a breakthrough to improve high-quality smart lighting solutions and contribute to sustainable lighting designs. The H6series takes advantage of a unique red narrow band
phosphor technology. Lighting professionals no longer have to choose between high color rendering and high efficacy.

Product Award

LYS

LYS Technologies

“Live Healthier with Light”

The jury distinguishes this system solution as an important contribution to stimulate better light, light quality and health improvement through light. People can track their light exposure and understand light’s impact on sleep and energy. Improve overall sleep, wellbeing and productivity through the LYS Light Diet program based on smart- and cloud-based technologies.

Product Award

HCL LED Series

SAMSUNG Electronics

“Each Place Has Its Own Purpose, Complete it with the Right Light”

The jury distinguishes this product family (LM302N DAY, LM302N NITE) as an essential contribution to health and wellbeing. Furthermore, the webinar by Elio Jin-Ha KIM outstandingly explains the HCL topic, including an actual spectra measurement demonstration on different lighting conditions.

LpS Digital Awards 2020

Facing the Challenges of Spectral Engineering with a New Software Tool

 

Adria HUGUET-FERRAN, Ph.D. Candidate, Researcher at the University of Barcelona, Spain

Paper published:LED professional Review (LpR), Issue #81, Sept/Oct 2020, p58-p62Lecture published: https://youtu.be/kesqTxPgbRs

Rationale of the Jury:
The effects of spectral distribution of LED and LED systems on various parameters for light quality were examined systematically. It was shown that the quality parameters correlated weakly but it was necessary to optimize the spectral distribution in order to reach target values. A software tool was developed in order to carry out this optimization.

Best Scientific Lecture/Paper – Technology Award 2020

Best Scientific Lecture/Paper – Design Award 2020

The Poetics of Darkness

Monica Llamas and Florencia Castro, both of MFA Lighting Design, B.A. of Architecture, New York

Paper published: LED professional Review (LpR), Issue #81, Sept/Oct 2020, p76-p81
Lecture published: https://youtu.be/FIdnvlgG6X8

Rationale of the Jury:
Reflecting on cultural history, the authors came to the conclusion that light is almost always connected to positive expressions while darkness is assigned negative terms. Unfortunately, these attributes have found their way into the practice of lighting design. The authors advocate utilizing darkness creatively in the planning process and depending on the application, not only to allow for specific differences in light intensity, but to utilize them purposefully. They corroborate this thesis with practical examples.

LpS Digital Exhibition Best Product Awards 2020

Bartenbach: Personal Table Light

Lifud: Magnetic Integration Driver Technologies

MKS Ophir: Lighting Measurement Equipment

Nichia: 2-in-1 White LED

Nichia: Light so Good – LED Portfolio

Samsung: Full Spectrum Horticulture Lighting Portfolio

Samsung: Optimized Circadian Rhythm LED Portfolio

Seoul Semiconductor: NEW LED ERA Portfolio

Note: The best product winners were selected by evaluating the viewer data.