New Holophane DualBay Electronic High Bay Offers Superior Performance For Retail And Commercial Lighting

Dual lamp technology, solid-state electronic ballast and a dedicated state-of-the-art thermal management system deliver better light quality, distribution and energy savings.

Building on the success of its comprehensive portfolio of high bay luminaires, Holophane introduces the new DualBay electronic high bay luminaire to deliver superior quality lighting and energy savings to a wide range of high bay applications. The new electronic high bay luminaire uses dual lamp technology, solid-state electronic ballast and a dedicated state-of-the-art thermal management system – coupled with Holophane ISD Superglass® technology – to deliver superior light quality, light distribution and energy savings.

Available in dual 210W and 315W, the high-efficacy Holophane DualBay luminaire delivers industry-best performance with a 90+ color rendering index (CRI), up to 112 lumens per watt and a lamp lumen depreciation of .90. DualBay luminaire also includes an optional extended 5-year limited warranty at 55°C ambient for 210W and 50°C for 315W.

Holophane DualBay luminaire delivers the ideal combination of performance, aesthetics and savings to retail, commercial, industrial, institutional and warehouse environments.

“The DualBay electronic high bay luminaire provides the marketplace with a unique high-performance, high-efficacy option for high bay applications,” said Ed Weaver, Acuity Brands Lighting Vice President and General Manager, Industrial. “The sparkling white light of the dual lamps creates a natural ambience and really brings out the best in color rendering,”

Acuity Brands Launches the ROAMview Lighting Control System, Extending the Company’s ROAM Roadway Technology into Site and Area Lighting

The ROAMview system provides property owners and small municipalities the ability to efficiently manage outdoor lighting using a wireless monitoring and control system.   

Introducing the ROAMview™ lighting control system, an expansion of  the Company’s ROAM^® suite of industry-leading wireless outdoor lighting monitoring and control systems.  ROAMview features a pre-configured server and software package that can be easily deployed in smaller site, area or roadway applications such as car dealerships, shopping malls and campuses.

The ROAMview system allows property owners and small municipalities to efficiently operate and maintain their outdoor lighting by taking advantage of the optimal lighting performance, energy savings and reduced maintenance costs that the ROAM technology suite offers. With its pre-configured server and gateway, the ROAMview system simply connects to a user’s existing computer network, enabling control and monitoring from any computer within the user’s organization.

The intuitive, browser-based portal provides ease of control for grouping outdoor lighting fixtures, and easily applies customer-defined schedules for precise on/off and dimming.  Events or holidays that require specific lighting patterns are conveniently accommodated in the ROAMview portal’s simple drag-and-drop time-clock scheduling screen.

“With the addition of the ROAMview system to our product line, we can now offer all property owners a powerful suite of capabilities and features similar to those used by large municipalities,” said Terry Utterback, Acuity Brands Lighting Vice President and ROAM Value Stream Leader. “Without trenching a single foot of wire, they can go from circuit-based control to individual fixture control.  The system tracks and reports individual fixture performance, and  reports outages so that they can be quickly addressed.  It eliminates the need for night-time audits, the waste of day-burning lights and the elevated risks associated with lighting outages.”

The ROAMview system is simple to install and commission. Wireless ROAM nodes are installed on each fixture, attaching to an industry-standard NEMA® twist-and-lock receptacle.  As soon as the pre-configured server and gateway are energized, the system can begin to form its self-configuring, self-healing mesh network. It takes only a few hours to set up fixture groups and begin controlling lights.

Lithonia Lighting Launches the I-BEAM LED High Bay

Acuity Brands, Inc. introduces I-BEAM® LED high bay from Lithonia Lighting®. This LED solution is the latest addition to the I-BEAM family, the most widely specified high bay family in the industry. The I-BEAM LED luminaire offers higher quality illumination, longer life and consumes less energy than comparable fluorescent and HID fixtures. Plus, I-BEAM LED high bays provide a payback in as little as two years and an impressive return on investment over the life of the product.

Affordable for many high bay applications such as manufacturing, warehousing and other large indoor spaces, I-BEAM LED luminaires can be integrated with factory-installed digital controls such as occupancy sensors, daylight photocells or nLight® devices, resulting in increased energy savings. I-BEAM LED high bays come fully capable of dimming down to 10 percent. Additionally, conduction and natural convection technologies used in the I-BEAM LED luminaires maximize cooling, fixture performance and lumens per watt.

“The I-BEAM LED high bay was designed to provide a quick payback and reduce a customer’s total cost of ownership while also delivering the quality and configurability that has made our I-BEAM family so popular,” said Ed Weaver, Acuity Brands Lighting Vice President and General Manager Industrial and Emergency, Lithonia Lighting. “This flexible fixture offers numerous options for almost every electrical and optical component, including reflectors, wire guards, emergency battery pack, occupancy sensors, surface mount brackets and more.”

Available for mounting heights ranging from 15-40 feet and ambient environments up to 131°F (55°C), the I-BEAM LED high bay meets both horizontal and vertical light level requirements through narrow or wide distributions. Reflectors are precision formed and utilize premium materials including ALANOD® MIRO® specular aluminum, while an optional semi-diffuse lens provides glare control and LED protection.

“I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the I-BEAM LED luminaire is so lightweight that I can lift it with one hand,” said Richard Wyton, Corporate Lighting Consultant with Steiner Electric Company. “This fixture also delivers a very good return on investment. It’s so affordable that it can be used as an alternative not only to HID, but to fluorescent as well.”

The I-BEAM LED high bay will be on display at the LIGHTFAIR® International trade show in Las Vegas May 9 -11, 2012, at the Acuity Brands booth #4108.

For more information on the features and benefits of the I-BEAM LED fixture, please visit www.lithonia.com.

Winona Lighting Launches Expanded OLED Portfolio at Light+Building 2012

Acuity Brands, Inc. is pleased to announce the expansion of the Revel™ and Kindred™ luminaire families from Winona® Lighting. The expanded lines include new size and mounting options, and will be showcased at Light+Building 2012, April 15 – 20 in LG Chem’s booth (hall 4.2, booth G25).

Consistent with the Light+Building 2012 theme of “energy efficiency,” Revel and Kindred luminaires utilize efficient and high performing OLED panels provided by LG Chem, with efficacies of 60 lumens per watt. Both luminaire families provide performance-based lighting solutions designed for indoor ambient and decorative applications.

“The addition of the Revel and Kindred OLED luminaires allows the designer to customize and create unique fixtures that are eco-friendly and energy efficient,” said Peter Ngai, Acuity Brands Lighting Vice President, Research and Development. “The best innovations link technology and design with a profound regard for human interaction. We are pleased to see our visions executed through Winona Lighting, and demonstrate the Company’s commitment to provide the broadest and most diverse traditional and solid-state lighting product portfolio in the industry.”

The contemporary Kindred luminaire is designed to provide a room with individualized canopies of light. Its evocative, iconic shape, especially when mounted in close proximity, promotes a feeling of visual comfort, while its thin profile and gentle curvature create a sense of spacial intimacy. The complete Kindred luminaire series is available in three sizes and multiple mounting options.  It delivers decorative, custom or general lighting solutions and can be used in many types of applications, including office, hospitality, retail, residential and specialty public areas.

The Revel luminaire, inspired by the organic shapes of flowers, is a lighting system that gives designers the freedom to create lighting patterns tailored to their unique application. Its simple, yet elegant and thin, form factor allows designers to augment architectural elements of ceilings and walls while providing high-quality ambient lighting. Now available in several mounting styles, Revel can be applied in a multitude of ways to provide accent or functional lighting that breaks away from rectangular grid layouts.

Revel recently received the Most Innovative Product of the Year award at the 2011 Lightfair® International Trade Show and Conference, and both Revel and Kindred luminaires were accepted in the 2011 IES Progress Report for uniqueness, innovation and significance to the lighting industry.

All Winona Lighting products, including the Revel and Kindred, are available through the Company’s global sales representatives and authorized distributors.

For additional information, please visit the Acuity Brands and Winona Lighting websites.

 

ROAM System Brings Big Benefits to Glendale, Arizona

Combining photo-control technology with remote monitoring and control capabilities, the ROAM wireless outdoor street light monitoring and control system continues to provide superior benefits to the City of Glendale, Arizona. Glendale was the first U.S. city to have the ROAM wireless monitoring system, which was installed as part of its comprehensive city-wide street light monitoring system over a 55-square-mile area.

Since installation, the City reports a dramatic reduction of resident-reported lighting outages. As a result, the City’s resident satisfaction levels have improved, while City staff, contractors and utility companies are held more accountable for their performance, all as measured by the ROAM system.

Win an Amazon Kindle 3G Wireless e-Reader!

What’s black and white and green all over? It might be the Amazon Kindle 3G you win after visiting Acuity Brands at the 2011 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in Toronto, October 4-7.

Come see the best intelligent lighting, controls and daylighting solutions in the industry and how they help reduce energy consumption by tremendous amounts over traditional lighting. The Acuity Brands booth is no. 1819N. Say the word “artichoke” and register to win one of five Amazon Kindle 3G e-readers.

For contest rules, visit this Web site.

Sunoptics Expands Existing-Roofing Daylighting Solutions

Thanks to Sunoptics, maker of high-performance prismatic daylighting, you can directly instal daylighting onto existing industrial standing-seam roofing systems with the new SEAMLIGHT Curbless Daylighting System. It delivers optimal lighting performance but its installation process doesn’t interfere with the structural integrity of industrial low-slope standing seam metal roofing systems.

Pair it with one of Acuity Brands’ indoor intelligent control systems, including Sensor Switch, Synergy Lighting Controls or Lighting and Control Design, and you get the extreme in energy savings.

Sunoptics high-performance prismatic skylights optimize indoor daylighting performance with a patented dome construction designed to capture more light at low sun angles. This maximizes the amount of light transmittance while maintaining 100% diffusion and eliminating undesirable hot spots, glare and UV damage.

DOE Taps Acuity Brands with Special Recognition

Going “above and beyond” what’s necessary to integrate the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lighting Facts® into its business practices has earned Acuity Brands a 2011 Lighting Facts Special Recognition by the DOE.

What’s Lighting Facts? It’s a voluntary-participation program for manufacturers who commit to testing products, including LEDs, and reporting performance results according to industry standards. It emphasizes consumer education to foster the appropriate comparison and selection of SSL products.

Acuity Brands supports the Lighting Facts program in the commercial, industrial, institutional, and residential markets. This support includes LM-79 testing of applicable products, as well as the prominent display of the Lighting Facts label on many solid state lighting (SSL) products or specification sheets.

Visual Design Tools More Accessible

Visual lighting design tools are now engineered to answer basic lighting design questions quickly and with greater access, thanks to their availability online and through a viewer from Acuity Brands.

The tools recreate the desktop experience on modern Web browsers, saving time by always being available when needed. They include the Interior Lighting Tool and Area Lighting Tool. Also available: a tutorial video, which can be accessed from www.visual-3D.com.

Also, Acuity Brands’ Visual Team, in conjunction with the Acuity Brands Lighting Center, will provide training sessions for Visual Professional Edition throughout 2011. Click here to learn more.

Prismatic Skylights Offer Great Advantages

Once you decide to daylight a building, Sunoptics Prismatic Skylights are the “enlightened” choice. We’ve dedicated our business to perfecting daylighting technology while helping building owners become energy independent. We offer superior design and construction and we are dedicated to consistent testing and refinement of our products to improve their value and performance to our customers. There are many advantages to Sunoptics skylight, as they:

• provide 35% or more light transmission than competitive skylights while providing 100% diffusion for glare-free high-performance daylighting
• eliminate damaging direct sunlight
• prevent UV damage to interiors and merchandise
• provide insulated thermal break frames as standard
• have completely welded corners that do not rely on wet seals to be watertight
• are superior in engineering, design and construction
• offer exceptional performance without a premium price