LiFi in far-UVC: FBH_Berlin, @UniStrathclyde and @Cambridge_Uni reached a record 1.5 Gbit/s at <235 nm over 30 cm. Sunlight is almost absent there, which helps outdoor links. Optics, receiver or modulation: what would you push first for range? #lifi #uvc #led

The new LEDprofessional Review LpR 117 is out: Smart City Lighting 🏙️ With @amsOSRAM, @TALQ_Consortium, @ULSolutions, Zhaga, IEEE Smart Cities, @GoodLightGroup and Prague's Dvorecký Bridge. Download the full issue: link in comment #smartcity #smartlighting

Old louvres in, new luminaire profiles out, with no remelting. TRILUX and OTTO FUCHS won Platinum and Green at the Build Back Better Awards 2026 for "Louvres in the Loop". RCY profiles in silver, gold and black are now in customer pilots. #lighting #circularity #aluminium

What does your LED driver already know? @Tridonic's "Brighter Perspectives" webinar shows how GEN4 driver data supports design, troubleshooting and maintenance. With Klaus Mohr and Lewis Wassell. 21 Oct, 10:00 CEST, online events.teams.microsoft.com/e… #lighting #leddriver #webinar

@amsOSRAM joins the Credo-led OCP SRMO workstream to standardize wide-parallel optical links for AI data centers. → 20–30x copper's reach at copper-like cost → Spec targeted for 2027 Where will microLEDs matter most? #microLED #photonics #AI

A new sales playbook is coming to TRILUX: Carsten Beier becomes Chief Sales Officer on 1 October 2026, leading global sales. He brings leadership from RHEINZINK (CEO) and ~25 years at Sievert Group. Focus: market expansion, customer alignment, sales digitization. #lighting

OPmobility just paid 600B KRW for 100% of Hyundai Mobis' lighting unit — 2.5T KRW revenue, 5 plants across Korea, China, Mexico & Czechia. Closing H2 2027. What's the first integration move: manufacturing, customers, or roadmap? #OPmobility #AutomotiveLighting

@amsOSRAM unveils a breakthrough Thin-Film VCSEL platform for AI Scale-Up at ECOC 2026: error-free 32 Gb/s at ~0.25 pJ/bit, 2,000+ hrs reliability validation. Plus a connectorized multi-core fiber demonstrator built with partner BizLink. #VCSEL #AIinfrastructure

IALD Enlighten Americas 2026 — "Into the Sunset" — Oct 15–17 in Austin, TX. Sessions on sustainability, lighting controls, net zero design, AI in lighting practice & circadian lighting. Keynote by Steve Lieberman on production design for clubs & festivals. #LightingDesign #IALD

@US_LED names Mark McClear President — former @Casambi_Oy Technologies global CEO, focused on growing national accounts and expanding US LED's lighting controls business. US LED & Casambi have partnered since 2022 on mesh network controls. #LEDlighting #Leadership

EMC, RED, ENEC — all under one roof. @glamox_UK opened a new lab near its Dobczyce site in Poland, centralizing testing, research and compliance for building, marine and naval lighting. Features a SAC-3 EMC chamber and CTF Stage 3 status for ENEC cooperation. #lighting #EMC

@Cree_LED_SGH launches L2 Solutions: fully assembled LED PCBAs for indoor and outdoor lighting, sourced from a single global supplier. Indoor linear (J Series® 2835) + outdoor array (J Series® 5050), stocked and ready to integrate. #LEDsourcing #PCBA

Webinar recording now live: "Intro to Suzi" — a standardized long-range mesh network for IoT. Speakers: Genie Peshkova (DSR Corp), Leslie Mulder (Exegin), Vladimir Stepanchenko (DSR Corp). Link in the reply 👇 #IoT #MeshNetwork

Fraunhofer IPMS unveils a full-color RGBW OLED microdisplay on 28 nm CMOS: 2.52 × 2.52 µm² subpixels, up to 5040 PPI. Flexible frame-based/memory-based driving for video + ultra-efficient static images. Shown at Eurodisplay 2026. @FraunhoferIPMS #OLED #microdisplay

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Sleep with a light on? Your heart may look different on MRI. UK Biobank data: nighttime light above 3 lux linked to heart remodeling — and higher risk of heart failure, AFib, MI, stroke & CV death over 8–10 yrs. Full breakdown in the reply 👇 #sleep #cardiovascular

Cables off, microLEDs on. Avicena's live ECOC 2026 demo: a connectorized microLED optical link that detaches & reconnects mid-transmission — no external lasers. Built for AI scale-in/scale-up interconnect. @AvicenaTech #microLED #opticalinterconnect

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CEO change at @Tridonic: Saurabh Pandhi takes over from Hugo Rohner as of 14 September 2026 — promoted from within the @zumtobelgroup, where he's led Thorn Lighting's global business since 2021. #Tridonic #SmartLighting

Can your phone's screen and camera finally agree on what light looks like? @amsOSRAM + vivo at CIOE 2026: under-OLED spectral sensing + an 8-ch color/flicker sensor + the TMF8829 multi-zone dToF — one sensing chain linking display and camera for the first time. #LED #Sensors