NEW YORK – The Illuminating Engineering Society of New York City (IESNYC) had to postpone their annual Control This! event, originally set for early November, due to superstorm Sandy. The daylong event expo and seminar series, which includes a “PlugFest” sponsored by Soraa, is now set to take place Dec. 5 at the original location, the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York. The PlugFest is geared to test the interoperability between products from different manufacturers, and to showcase new lighting control and energy management systems.
More details from Soraa (www.soraa.com):
NEW YORK – In an effort to remove barriers to the rapid adoption of LED lighting, Soraa will sponsor the lighting industry’s PlugFest in conjunction with the Illuminating Engineering Society of New York City (IESNYC) at their annual Control This! event. IESNYC’s Control This! 2012 is a daylong event expo and seminar series that that will be held on Dec. 5 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City, and will showcase state-of-the-art lighting control systems and energy management systems.
“Incompatibility between LED lamps and fixtures with existing control gear and dimmers designed for traditional light sources—incandescent, halogen, or fluorescent—is one of the biggest hurdles facing the lighting industry today. I applaud Soraa and IESNYC’s efforts to solve this challenge by holding the Lighting PlugFest,” said Paul Gregory, founder/president of Focus Lighting, Inc.
“PlugFests are a mainstay of high tech industries, and Lighting PlugFest at Control This! is destined to revolutionize the way lighting practitioners and OEM vendors of LED lamps, fixtures, transformers and dimmers test the interoperability between products from different manufacturers and accelerate the growth of the entire industry,” said Control This! 2012 Co-Chair Meg Smith. “This is a ‘must attend’ industry event.”
Soraa will manage and run the testing using a custom-built testing panel comprised of an array of commonly used transformers and dimmers and Soraa’s 12VAC LED MR16 lamps. It will also accommodate participating companies’ transformers, dimmers and 12VAC LED lamps or fixtures. A video of how the panel works is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmw_9k8IM-8&feature=plcp.
“Manufacturers benefit because Lighting PlugFest addresses compatibility—an obstacle to widespread LED lamp adoption; designers benefit because they can specify with confidence; and end users benefit because they will know that product combinations work,” said Eric Kim, Soraa CEO. “This event is all about ensuring a positive LED lighting user experience.”
For more information on Lighting PlugFest and how to participate, visit: http://www.soraa.com/public/docs/Inaugural_PlugFest_Soraa_IESNYC.
For more information about Control This!, go to http://www.controlthis.org
