When you are thinking about your next lighting installation or requirement - why not consider which LED products might be available or might best suit your needs?
When you think LEDs, think Philips
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Philips is the world’s leading manufacturer of high-power LEDs and a pioneer in the use of solid-state lighting solutions for everyday applications, including automotive lighting, computer displays, LCD televisions, signage and signaling – and, of course, general lighting.
Our patented LUXEON® Power Light sources are the first to combine the brightness of conventional lighting with the small footprint, long life and energy efficiency. We manufacture billions of LEDs annually and produce the world’s brightest red, amber, blue, green and white LEDs. Our latest addition – LUXEON® K2 LED – offers significant increases in luminous flux, permitting a much broader range of solid-state lighting applications than ever before.
Combined with creative design, this has laid the foundation for a new generation of cutting-edge luminaires.
Solid-state or LED lighting represents the most significant development in lighting since the discovery of electric light well over a century ago. Offering unprecedented design freedom in terms of colour, dynamics, miniaturisation, architectural integration and energy efficiency, it is opening up possibilities we could previously only dream of, e.g. for ambience creation.
Today, we are witnessing a clear shift from ‘quantitative’ functional lighting towards ‘qualitative’ intelligent and emotive lighting, stimulating designers to re-think lighting in a way that offers people new experiences. With our desire to improve people’s lives with lighting, we at Philips will continue to drive this trend by supporting our creative and industry partners with innovations and expertise in the field of LED lighting.
Dynamic Ambiences:
LEDs bring appealing dynamic lighting effects - such as colour mixing and changing for scenesetting - to outdoor and indoor applications ranging from city beautification through to shop and office lighting, as well as lighting for the home. With a combination of three coloured LEDs - red, green and blue (RGB) - it is possible to use different dimming levels to create all the colours of the rainbow without any loss of light. A combination of amber, white and blue (AWB) can be used to replicate the characteristics of daylight. The dynamic capability of LED lighting can be applied to create exactly the right ambience at the right time. For example, it is possible to change white light from cool to warm white, independent of the lighting level, and to vary the nature of the light from diffuse to more focused. In a hotel restaurant, for instance, we can create bright, fast-moving environments for breakfast time and a warmer, more intimate atmosphere for dinner in the evening. Or we can give shop windows more stopping power with vibrant, saturated colour effects.
Increasing use is also being made of dynamic effects in the healthcare sector, for example, where LED lighting is being used specifically to put patients at ease and to increase staff well-being, motivation and productivity.
Dramatic Impact:
Advances in LED technology have opened up a host of powerful effects for illuminating architectural elements, enabling designers to fill or underline, graze or pinpoint, mark or blend. These effects can transform what are sober, functional buildings by day into spectacular eye-catchers at night. Also, since there is no heat in the beam and almost no UV in the light spectrum of LEDs, they are very safe for the public and are ideally suited to illuminating light/heat-sensitive materials, e.g. in shops and museums.
Integration:
LEDs have an extremely long lifetime. For example, LUXEON® LEDs have a lifetime of 50,000 hours - or approximately 25 years - at 70% of their initial light output, making them a truly ‘fit and forget’ solution. Combined with their small dimensions, this opens up completely new design possibilities, in which the LEDs can be sealed for life and fully integrated into the architecture or design. A good example of this can be found in the automotive industry, where coloured LEDs are already widely used in indicator lights.
Energy efficiency:
LEDs are more energy-efficient than many existing light sources, especially if we take into account their optical efficiency. And things can only get better, with their level of efficiency more or less doubling every two years.
And this is just the beginning…
Contact Philips about what LEDs will fit your installation:
Tel: 01483 293 057
email: lighting.uk@philips.com
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Philips LED product overview and solutions PDF
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