The Rise of LED Ambient Lights and LED Night Safety Street Lights in Japan | LED Outdoor Lighting (1)

Japan is the birthplace of LED outdoor lighting including LED ambient lights, LED night safety street lights, which help to reduce crime, and other novel lighting fixtures. Among the developed countries, Japan has a relatively higher aging population, and Japanese government as well as private enterprises pay much attention to the household and public lighting for the elderly and the visually impaired by providing them an indicator lighting system which emits far brighter light than the conventional night safety reflectors on the ground. .....more

DOE Publishes Final Energy Star Criteria for LED Lighting


After releasing three draft editions, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published the final ENERGY STAR Eligibility Criteria for integral LED lamps on December 4, 2009. The new Energy Star criteria will go into effect as of August 31, 2010. These ENERGY STAR program requirements were published one month earlier than its scheduled date in December, 2009; this, noted LEDinside, indicates that DOE hopes to establish a uniform standard in the LED lighting industry to prevent the LED makers from repeating the previous misstep in the promotion of CFL....more