Lighting White Papers
Lighting White Papers – Agricultural, Smart & Éclairage industriel Our white papers deliver concise insights into three core domains shaping LED innovation.
Lighting White Papers
In agricultural lighting, we highlight plant grow lights and spectrum‑optimized solutions that improve crop yield and support sustainable farming. For smart lighting, we explore IoT‑enabled systems, sensor‑based illumination, and adaptive brightness that enhance energy efficiency and smart city integration. In industrial lighting, we cover high bay fixtures, emergency sensor lights, UV lamps, and cleanroom solutions designed for factories and specialized environments.
Together, these resources empower engineers, buyers, and industry professionals worldwide with
practical knowledge to guide product selection and deployment.
How to Use These White Papers in a Lighting Project
The white papers collected here are written for the decision points where lighting projects go wrong: crop-plan economics, energy-code compliance, and reliability budgeting. Each one is a standalone technical argument with the assumptions stated, so you can lift the calculation method into your own project file — the numbers, not just the conclusions.
What Each Paper Covers
| Paper | Core Question | Who Should Read It |
|---|---|---|
| Éclairage agricole | How PPFD targets convert to fixture counts and payback by crop | Growers, greenhouse engineers, horticulture consultants |
| Fiabilité des LED industrielles | What L90/B10 and TM-21 projections mean for maintenance planning | Maintenance managers, plant engineers specifying replacements |
| Densité de puissance d'éclairage | Meeting LPD code limits without under-lighting the task plane | Designers filing for permits, energy consultants |
Reading Order for a Retrofit Evaluation
- Start with the reliability paper to set the maintenance assumptions (relamping cycle, lumen depreciation floor) that every later calculation inherits
- Work through the power density paper to establish the code-compliant energy budget for your space class
- Finish with the application-specific paper — agricultural for growing environments, or the relevant specification guide for industrial and commercial spaces
- Validate the resulting fixture count against a measured case: the vertical farm case study and high-bay factory retrofit document real before/after numbers
Requesting the Full Documents
Summary abstracts live on this page; complete PDFs are provided to specifiers and purchasing teams through the contact form or your account manager. OEM programs can reference the calculation methods in their own submittals after a mutual NDA — the same terms described on our certificates and documentation page.
Key Product Lines and the Papers That Cover Them
Every major product line we manufacture has a corresponding technical argument in the white paper library. Use this index to jump from the product you are specifying to the document that de-risks it:
| Product Line | Core Design Question | Relevant Paper / Guide |
|---|---|---|
| LED CMSs (0603–5050) | Bin discipline, reflow survival, PWM-vs-camera interaction | Guide de sélection des LED CMS; Analyse des défaillances CMS |
| LED haute puissances (1–5 W) | Thermal budgeting, L90 at 50,000 h | Fiabilité des LED industrielles; LM-80 Lifetime Estimation |
| DIP LEDs (3/5 mm) | Lens geometry, indication duty, hand assembly | Analyse des défaillances DIP; Notes d'application |
| Infrared LEDs (850/940 nm) | Wavelength selection, pulsing and ambient rejection | Analyse des défaillances IR; IR LED Applications |
| UV / UVC LEDs | Dose budgeting, photobiological safety, encapsulant life | UVC Disinfection Guide; LED UV Datasheets |
| UFO High-Bay Luminaires | Lux planning for factory and warehouse task planes | Guide de conception d'éclairage industriel |
| Cleanroom Panel Lights | GMP compliance, sealing, flicker for inspection stations | Guide de conception d'éclairage industriel; GMP case study |
| Waterproof Tube Lights | IP65 demisting, food-zone washdown survival | Horticultural & Spécifications commerciales; Guides d'installation |
| Solar Street Lights | Battery sizing, autonomy nights, LPD compliance | Spécifications solaires et extérieures; LPD Guide |
| Grow Lights | PPFD targets by crop, photoperiod economics | Livre blanc sur l'éclairage agricole |
Methodology Notes: How the Numbers Were Produced
Each paper states its assumptions on the first page — test currents, ambient conditions, sample sizes, and the measurement standard behind every table. Reliability projections follow LM-80 + TM-21 methodology with the projection cap respected (6× test hours, per the standard), and photometric figures reference IES LM-79 measurements on the cited configurations. Where a number is an engineering estimate rather than a measured value, the text says so. This is the discipline that makes the papers citable in your own submittals.
Using the Papers Across a Program Lifecycle
- Specification phase: pull the bin floors, L90 curves, and LPD methods into your requirement documents — quote the paper revision so later audits resolve cleanly
- Design review: run the thermal and dose budgets from the reliability and UV papers against your worst-case ambient, not typical datasheet conditions
- Qualification: the test-report structures in the reliability paper map one-to-one onto HTOL and thermal-shock acceptance plans
- Field service: the failure-signature tables in the failure-analysis series give your service team a first-response protocol before parts ship to the lab
Measured deployments that validate the papers’ methods are documented in the lighting case studies and LED component case studies — each case publishes before/after numbers traceable to the calculation methods above.