Lightfair International 2015 is an annual architectural and commercial lighting trade show and conference. Each year, exhibitors show off their latest solutions, knowledge, and practices, including lamps and ballasts, decorative lighting, building integration, control devices, lighting control components, meters, high-end fixtures, and more. The show attracts thousands of architects, contractors, lighting designers, engineers, manufacturers, energy service providers, facility managers, utilities, government officials, and more. Exhibitors are all eager to win an LFI Innovation Award, which credits an exhibitor for having an outstanding product. The following will breakdown the winners, including the most innovative product of the year, the technical innovation award, and the design excellence award. While some of the product descriptions might be on the technical side, we hope you’ll enjoy looking at some of the interesting product designs the leaders in lighting technology have developed.
Main Awards
OSRAM, a German-based worldwide leader in lighting manufacturing, took two out of three of the main awards. Besides the main awards, some of these products also received category awards.
Most Innovative Product of the Year
Recessed Downlights (Wall Washers, Directionals, Modulars, Multiples) Category Award Winner
Manufactured by OSRAM, The OmniPoint™ is a “Remotely controlled array-based luminaire with extremely flexible and reconfigurable light output via a wireless tablet.”
Technical Innovation Award Winner
LED / OLED, Chips and Modules Category Award Winner
Manufactured by OSRAM, the OSLON® SSL 730 nm “provides the perfect light for plants and flowers, with wavelengths of 450nm to 660nm and now including 730nm Far Red.”
Design Excellence Award Winner
Parking, Roadway and Area Luminaires Category Award Winner
Manufactured by Hubbell Lighting, Inc., the Architectural Area Lighting KicK™ has a “Contemporary design and form combine[d] to deliver high performance lighting where it matters most—on the pedestrian scale.
Conventional, Retrofit and Replacement LED Lamps
Ketra’s S38 lamp produces a full gamut of colors, pastels and high CRI white light from a single point source. Our custom driver chip, optics and LED incorporate closed-loop optical and thermal feedback which maintains factory calibrated color point over product lifetime. Each lamp is wirelessly controlled and individually addressable thus enabling a range of applications including zone control, circadian lighting systems, and color changing effects.
Track, Display, Undercabinet and Shelf
Made by WAC Lighting, “This LED Track head allows for infield change of the beam angle by hand, allowing complete control over the fixture.”
Ballasts, Transformers, LED Drivers, Systems and Kits
Created by Hatch Lighting, “DigiSwitch is used with constant current LED drivers to create a system that can double the life span of LED fixtures.”
Non-Luminous Components, Specialty Hardware, Shades and Solar
GE Lighting is the winner of this non-luminous component—something that does not produce light, but helps reflect light from another source.
TriGain™ Phosphor: “Should you have to forego color quality for efficacy? You shouldn’t. With GE’s TriGain technology there is NO SACRIFICE.”
Indoor Decorative (Chandeliers, Pendants, Sconces, Task Lights)
Produced by LBL Lighting, the Xterna LED Linear Suspension embeds LEDs “within Xterna’s signature X-shaped structure are gradually revealed as it extends from 7” to 76″.”
Sports, Step, Landscape, Pool & Fountain
Developed by B-K Lighting & TEKA Illumination, the Adjust-e-Lume® with Bluetooth® Wireless Technology “controls lumen response at each Adjust-e-Lume® fixture with [the] iOS® platform.”
Controls and Control Software, Building Integration, Site Automation and Distribution Systems
Manufactured by Acuity Brands, the Fresco show VM is “A stand-alone DMX512 touchscreen lighting controller that mounts in a 3-gang wall box.”
Dynamic Color, Theatrical, Cove, Strips and Tape
Developed by EcoSense Lighting, the “EcoSense Trov is a one-of-a-kind LED lighting platform that allows for unparalleled freedom in lighting design.”
Industrial, Vandal, Emergency and Exit
Created by Shat-R-Shield®, the LED Vapor Tight is “The first fixture of its kind designed using engineered thermal plastics for corrosion resistance in harsh environments.”
Commercial Indoor (Linear Fluorescent, Troffers, Suspended, Surface, LED, OLED)
Developed by Tech Lighting, the ELEMENT Merge Recessed Linear System “Combines 3” aperture recessed linear indirect channel with concealed bus to independently control spots or pendants.”
