Building blocks for smart lighting designs

The LpS is an exhbition, which focuses on the latest system approaches, components, equipment and up-to-date design methodologies. Participants will be inspired to create designs and transform innovations to the next level.

The LpS programme starts on 22nd September, with Keynotes from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Zumtobel and Lumileds to provide an overview of the current trends and technologies. Prof. Zary Segall from KTH in Stockholm will open the event, addressing the topics of semantic, smart and connected lighting, which are driven by the trends of human centric lighting and IoT.

Those trends are also addressed by the internationally renowned lighting designer, Rogier van der Heide from the Zumtobel Group in Austria, whereas the focus of his keynote is on smart controls. The third keynote will be given by Jy Bhardwaj from Lumileds in the US. He will discuss future trends for solid state lighting, such as miniaturisation, reliability and thermal management enabling a higher level of integration at the system level.

Over 60 technical lectures on trends and visions, lighting systems and light sources, smart controls, optics, reliability and lifetime, thermal management and measurement will be presented during the three event days. Furthermore, participants are invited to take part in discussions and hands-on workshops.

LG Chem will hold a workshop on OLED technology and application. Another workshop organised by the EPIC will focus on automotive lighting, bringing together the European automotive industry leaders. The third workshop, organised by Luger Research, is titled, Smart Controls Innovation Workshop. It will focus on systematic, next-gen product forecasting. The definitive event programme will be available at the beginning of June.

Over 100 exhibitors are expected at the LpS 2015. The top seven global LED manufacturers: Cree, Everlight, Lumileds, Nichia, Osram, Samsung and Seoul Semiconductors are showcasing their latest products and technologies together with many other well-known material, component, module and equipment manufacturers as well as distributors and service providers.

With the motto 'Design meets Technology', students from the University of Applied Science, Munich, will demonstrate their innovative lighting designs as a result of a four-month university project called Out of Bounds – Design Contest. This project was developed in cooperation with Seoul Semiconductor with the clear objective of breaking boundaries in the lighting industry.