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Special LED edition!

Welcome yet again to The Focal Point, the foremost educational newsletter about outdoor lighting. We have read your comments, we have read your suggestion, and we are happy to oblige! An overwhelming percentage of our readers and new subscribers wanted to learn more about LEDs and LED outdoor lighting, so we decided to dedicate this entire issue to that subject!

First, we are proud to announce the incredible media interest that has been generated by a little town in North Carolina that went LED green using Philips Lumec's LifeLEDT technology to light their downtown streetscapes. You may read more about this in our article: "An LED success story in North Carolina"

Second, we are extremely happy to announce the arrival of our newest product: The RoadStar: an affordable high-performance LED roadway luminaire designed for large area lighting that's a simple and elegant solution to any city's energy consumption issues. Listen to the bell, CobraHead, for it tolls for thee.

Another article that we strongly suggest reading through is 'Fabricating a Green Product: The ends don't justify the means'. In this article we delve into the green issue of LED lighting manufacturing. We also give you, the end consumers, the people responsible for lighting our world, the essential questions to ask when choosing an LED lighting solution. After all, not all LED lighting solutions are created equal! With the tools that we'll give you, you will be able to make the most educated choice for your projects!

We have also provided you the opportunity to get to know some leaders in the LED lighting world and what it takes to innovate in this ever evolving industry, as well as an article about what is fact and what is fiction when it comes to LEDs and they way they perform.

We hope you enjoy this LED specific newsletter and, as always, we look forward to hearing from you! Let us know if you have any questions, or any subjects that you would like us to explore further!

Enjoy!

The Philips Lumec Team
lumec.suggestions@philips.com

Spotlight

The RoadStarT, Lumec's latest creation: Pure Performance. Built to last.

The RoadStarT luminaire was designed to address a fundamental need in the lighting industry for affordable, high-performance, energy efficient, and long lasting large-area LED lighting that is at once as good for the environment as it is for a project's bottom line.
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An LED success story in North Carolina

The award winning LifeLEDT has many characteristics that make it a leader in its field. Its reliable 70,000+ hour lifespan and low maintenance needs make it the perfect solution for cities that want to go that one step further.
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The talent that makes state-of-the-art LED luminaires possible

Technology doesn't evolve itself, talented people and businesses with vision evolve technology, and very few products have lived through en evolutionary spike as intense as LED lighting.
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The Green Light: Send us your stories! Let us interview you!

If you're a city planner, an architect, a designer, and engineer, a landscape architect, or any one else who works with outdoor lighting, send your stories, articles, pictures, essays, white papers...
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