LED Scavenger Hunt: Here’s What’s New in the Solid-State Lighting Industry

This year we flew the whole Groom Energy field engineering team to Las Vegas for Light fair, the annual lighting industry show. While Vegas is a fun location for our team meeting, our real plan was to conduct an LED scavenger hunt, sending our engineers into Light fair’s exhibit hall filled with 500-plus vendors to search for the latest, coolest LED lighting technologies.LEDs have since become the industry’s iPhone, offering near-universal awareness, third-generation apps, innovation and coolness.

The products have advanced dramatically since our first Commercial and Industrial LED Research Report was published in 2010, with some now at a third of their original cost, twice the performance, higher CRI and offering ten-year warranties.Last year’s Light fair was about advancements in LED colour quality, intelligent control and fixture type adoption. This year, we armed our 30 engineers with lists of “must sees” and “nice to sees” and expected they would also uncover some unexpected. The morning after our hunt, the team met to debrief.