In recent years, my interest in road cycling has grown and continues to do so. Inspired by my parents who have been cycling for leisure and also for competitions for many years now, I knew this sport was also perfect for me. For my first full season of serious road cycling last year, I traveled almost 2 000 miles during the summer months. This feeling of practicing a sport while covering such a distance is really dear to me. I feel a certain satisfaction after this physical effort and it motivates me to go back and do it again the next day! [...]
AUTHOR: Jean-Philippe Villeneuve | CATEGORY: Miscellaneous
July 3, 2012
The Link Between Cycling and Lighting
AUTHOR: Martin Mercier | CATEGORY: Technologies
May 3, 2011
A control solution without even relying on ANY communication technology
What if you could have a deluxe control solution without any hardware change to the luminaires with controls, alarms, and reports through a Web access, all that in two years as far as ROI is concerned? More than that: without even relying on ANY communication technology like RF or power line communication [...]
AUTHOR: | CATEGORY: Technologies
April 28, 2011
Capella LifeLED implementation: get ready to be convinced!
Philips Lumec’s Capella series, now available in LED (i.e. powered by the innovative LifeLED): a synonym of maximum reliability and safety while enhancing the visual impact of any urban setting.
You want proof? The city of Bettendorf in Iowa is a great example and certainly a convincing proof of that. A video presents the benefits for the city and its residents since adopting Philips Lumec’s Capella LifeLED solution [...]
AUTHOR: | CATEGORY: Design
March 31, 2011
How can LEDs provide safer environment for kids of all ages
During the weekend of March 18th and 19th, Philips Lumec attended the annual congress of landscape architects organized by the Association des architectes paysagistes du Québec (AAPQ – Society of Landscape Architects of Quebec) in Montreal, Quebec. This year’s theme focused on childhood landscapes. The main question was how landscape architects plan and design spaces where children spend time [...]
AUTHOR: Éric Ladouceur | CATEGORY: Technologies
March 15, 2011
Optical orientation
After nineteen years working in the office making photometric calculations and managing the photometric team, I decided to apply for a position as a technical representative. So it has been ten months since I have been on the road, and I have to admit: I see strange things on the different sites I go to [...]
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