New lighting technologies including more efficient sources and smart systems and controls offer the potential to further reduce global electricity use for lighting by 50%. The SSLC Platform is actively working to develop information and analysis to transform lighting markets, improving both the energy efficiency and quality of our illuminated spaces.
The SSLC Platform member governments bring together top researchers and experts from around the world to jointly address challenges in the rapidly evolving lighting market. The activities undertaken by the SSLC Platform are complementary and supportive of the work of governments, international standardisation bodies, and the research & development being conducted by industry and academia. Through this work, the SSLC Platform is working to accelerate the global transition to solid state lighting and controls.
Today, the Smart Sustainability in Lighting and Controls (SSLC) Platform published a comprehensive review of the scientific knowledge acquired over the last ten years on the effects of solid state lighting (SSL) on human health.
On 14th May, the SSLC Platform organised an international lighting seminar at Senate House, University of College London. The slides and video recordings from this seminar are now available on our website.
An in-person (London, UK) seminar and on-line webinar.
Temporal Light Artifacts (TLAs) are undesired visual perceptual effects, caused by Temporal Light Modulations (TLMs), which commonly exist in lighting systems, especially LED lighting systems. Accurate measurement of TLM and evaluation of TLA metrics, specifically the stroboscopic visibility measure (SVM) and the short-term flicker indicator (PstLM), are required by certain product safety regulations with limit values specified.
Over the past 20 years, the development and adoption of-state lighting (SSL) has led to substantial improvements in the quality and efficiency of lighting. This disruptive technology enabled a decoupling of lighting and energy consumption, whereby delivered lumens of light around the world has increased while lighting-related energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions have decreased.
The 4E SSLC Platform has conducted an Interlaboratory Comparison (IC 2023) for the measurement of temporal light modulation (TLM) of solid-state lighting (SSL) products. Designed to meet proficiency testing requirements, IC 2023 compared measured TLM quantities of short-term flicker indicator (PstLM) and stroboscopic effect visibility measure (SVM, MVS), as well as three other TLM quantities, of four comparison LED lamp artefacts.
