The potential decision to sell of the firm’s prestige lighting business will come as a surprise to some, especially as lighting, in the early days of the company, defined GE.

GE is thought to be considering selling its lighting buisness so it can concentrate on producing large complex equipment such as aircraft engines.

GE, the company credited with inventing and mass marketing the lightbulb, is reportedly plotting to sell of its lighting division.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the firm has been talking to a number of investment banks about a potential deal.

GE was co-founded by Thomas Edison, the inventor of the first viable incandescent lamp, over a century ago and the jettisoning of the firm’s lighting business a century later could net the company up to $500 million.

The Boston based company has been gradually selling off businesses since 2004, including its insurance, credit card, plastics and security divisions.

It is thought that GE is taking these actions so it can concentrate on producing large complex equipment such as power turbines, aircraft engines, health-care equipment and trains, while gaining a considerable income stream from the very lucrative service contracts that go alongside developing these machines.

Nevertheless, the potential decision to sell of the firm’s prestige lighting business will come as a surprise to some, especially as lighting, in the early days of the company, defined GE.

GE has so far refused to comment on the rumours.

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Berlin is undergoing a street lighting revolution, 5,500 LED street lights have already been deployed, while a further 2,500 are being fitted this year.

An intelligent wireless lighting network has been installed in the Wilmersdorf district of Berlin. The street lights are able to adjust their brightness based on real-time human presence.

The intelligent lighting minimises energy waste and acts to lower light pollution by ensuring that streetlights do not burn at full capacity throughout the night when the streets are often deserted.

The sensor network is a major breakthrough in Berlin’s street lighting renovation efforts. 5,500 LED street lights have already been deployed, while a further 2,500 are being fitted this year.

The innovative street lighting approach was praised by Christian Gaebler, permanent secretary at Berlin’s Senate Department for Urban Development.

‘Residents were continuously dissatisfied with the state of the area,’ commented Christian Gaebler, permanent secretary at Berlin’s Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment.

‘Now for the first time we are testing a technical innovation that hasn’t existed anywhere in Berlin before, in order to improve the environment,’ Gaebler concluded.

The new LEDs in combination with sensor lighting controllers are allowing Berlin to save up to 80 percent of the energy normally spent on street lighting, whilst cutting maintenance costs.

Smart cities and the internet of things firm Tvilight worked on the project in conjunction with Trilux.

The intelligent network is managed remotely via Tvilight CityManager software, which enables the street lights to be controlled on an individual and group level, whilst delivering a host of analytics such as energy savings reports, failure notifications and traffic heatmaps.

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BHS is attempting to reinvent itself as a trendy online lighting shop.

BHS has always gone against the grain when it comes to lighting by selling some interesting designs that belie its sedate image.

Moribund retailer BHS, which closed its doors earlier in the year after decades as a High Street staple, is attempting to reinvent itself as a trendy online lighting store.

The company, which went into administration in April, has launched a new website, which features a whole host of lighting fixtures that would not look out of place in London’s trendy Shoreditch or Dalston.

As well as featuring traditional BHS staples such as middle-of-the-road bedding and beige cushions, the new website also sells retro filament lamps hanging from distressed railway sleepers, glass pendants and even the perennial hipster lighting favorite, the squirrel cage.

Any BHS regular will, no doubt, note the new lighting as a very considerable change of step for the formerly sedate and matronly retailer.

The BHS brand and website was bought by the Qatari owned Al Mana Group after the store closed its doors and the company intends to rebuild BHS’s reputation online.

The High Street regular always had a strong tradition of selling home lighting, so it is an obvious place to start as Al Mana Group looks to revive BHS’s fortunes.

The extensive lighting range dominates over 500 homeware products that are available online and many of the products are carbon copies of what was available in the old store, but at lower prices.

The new on-line shop is being run by David Anderson, the former BHS CEO

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Megaman’s Dino modern linear luminaires have been used within a new retail space at Poplar Garden Centre, Marks Tey, Essex.

Megaman’s Dino modern linear luminaires have been used within a new retail space at Poplar Garden Centre, Marks Tey, Essex.  Ideal for internal or external installations, the Dino fitting offers a long life with low maintenance making it the perfect luminaire to replace existing T5 and T8 fluorescent luminaires.

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 Lux reports: UAE supermarket chain Aswaaq has become the first retailer in the Middle East to install connected lighting which communicates with its customers.

Its supermarket in Al Bada’a, Dubai, now boasts so-called Visible Light Communication technology, which is imperceptible to the human eye but detected by smart phone cameras. The lights act as a positioning system which allows shoppers to find items in the store to an accuracy of 30cm.

Smart-phone owners must first download the Aswaaq-branded app. This allows their phone to communicate with the individual light points transmitting their location through the high-frequency modulation of the light. The data stream is one-way and no personal data is collected by the lighting system.

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Apple looks set to include a li-fi capability in future versions of the iPhone, meaning it can access high-speed data using lighting.

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Los Angeles’ streetlighting network boasts wireless monitoring and control and 4G connectivity to boost cellphone performance. PLUS: Why Helena Bonham Carter is more intimate with connected LED lighting than most! Lux Today Nov 17 2015 is presented by Courtney Ferguson.

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