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Product Spotlight

Ultima S by LED Linear


Featured Manufacturer

Lutron


Who designed it Wednesday?

Andrea Tosetto's Rain for Lodes


Technical Spotlight

Athena Wireless Node


Contractor Corner

Ratio Bollard from Beacon

ULTIMA S

Designed by LED Linear

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ULTIMA represents a ground breaking step for lighting integration in the architecture. Its minimal design makes it blend in any building structure and disappear from sight. Ideal for furniture or architectural integration, showcase or display lighting, installation on grid ceilings or as surface mounted.

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Optical Precision



Second generation of nano optics of ULTIMA delivers precise and crisp lighting distributions while ensuring an accurate glare control, UGR <13.

Architectural Integration



Various mounting and cable configurations allow ULTIMA to be integrated seamlessly within architecture.

Sustainability



ULTIMA‘s compact design reduces the amount of raw materials used by 94 % compared to previous technologies.

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Lutron is a technology-centered and people-driven company. As a private corporation guided by our founder’s simple but profound Five Principles, Lutron has a long history of significant growth and smart innovations.

The Five Principles of Lutron

I. Take care of the customer with superior goods and services.

The customer is our number one priority and the reason we exist as a company.

II. Take care of the company.

Lutron is dedicated to growth and innovative development.

III. Take care of the people.

Lutron provides opportunities for its employees to fully develop their abilities and make a personal contribution to the success of the company.

IV. Innovate with high quality products.

V. Deliver value to the customer.

Lutron's History

The Lutron story began in the late 1950s in Joel Spira’s makeshift lab in New York City.


A young physicist fascinated by the aesthetic manipulation of light, Spira commandeered the spare bedroom in the apartment he shared with his wife, Ruth, and set out to invent a solid-state device that would enable people to vary the intensity of the lights in their homes.


The very idea was radical. At that time, lighting control was a complicated and expensive affair, requiring bulky rheostats that used a lot of energy and generated a great deal of heat. Consequently, lighting controls were used primarily to dim stage lights in theaters. Most people would never think of having dimmers in their homes because they were just too difficult to install.


That all changed in 1959, when Spira emerged from his lab with a solid-state dimmer that could replace the light switch in a standard residential wallbox.


Spira’s key technical innovation had been to replace the rheostat with a thyristor. A thyristor is a type of transistor, which had been invented a few years earlier.


The substitution was effective because rheostats and thyristors worked in completely different ways. Rheostats dimmed lights by absorbing electrical energy into the rheostat, meaning that electricity was converted to heat in the rheostat rather than to light in the lamp. By comparison, thyristors dimmed the light by interrupting the power flowing to the lamp.


The use of a thyristor shrank the size of a dimmer until it could fit into a standard wallbox. Spira’s dimmer also generated much less heat than a rheostat and used much less energy.


By 1961, when Joel and Ruth Spira incorporated Lutron Electronics, they knew that lighting control could contribute to society in multiple ways. Dimmers were both elegant and useful, and they allowed people to control their lights as never before.


Dimmers were practical too. They saved energy, and the more you used them, the more energy they saved. With energy costs already going up, the Spiras believed that the energy-saving aspects of the new invention would ensure the long-term appeal of lighting controls.



They were right.

Whole Building Systems from Lutron

No matter where they’re installed or how big the system, every Lutron product saves energy by reducing electrical consumption. Taken as a whole, Lutron light controls have reduced electrical use by 9.2 billion kWh, which reduces customers’ electric bills by $1 billion annually.

ATHENA

VIVE

QUANTUM

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RainDesign by Andrea Tosetto

for Lodes

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Following his graduation at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Venice, Andrea Tosetto joined the family lighting company, which he soon took over.


Andrea marks the transition of the company from the classical lines of that time to an innovative and more contemporary language. His dynamic entrepreneurial style and lively creative vein come to life in refined products that enhance the craftsmanship method.


Andrea succeeded in emphasizing the company’s know-how, focusing on the internalization of production processes and on the use of quality materials with a strong bond with the Venetian territory. Kelly, Nautilus are just some of Andrea’s creations for Studio Italia Design (now LODES).

The story behind the product

Inspired by the lightness of spring rain, Rain interprets the movement of the drop, capturing the specific moment, suspending it in space and time. Simple and linear, its form enhances the LED light, projecting it toward a convex lens. The aluminum body is available in two finishes, chrome and matte black, which can be matched with five different accents (coppery bronze, brushed chrome, gold, rose gold, matte black).


Singularly, it is perfect for minimal furnishing insofar as it creates a scenic and specific light source, for example on a bedside table. Installed as a cluster with up to 36 monochromatic or colored elements, Rain gives life to spectacular compositions distinguished by their dynamic and original character.


It falls from the ceiling like a drop of spring rain, with a linear movement that accentuates the curvaceous conical forms of its body. A metal suspension lamp with an LED light source projected toward a convex lens—simple and effective, elegant and extremely bright, to be used either independently or as a design composition.

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Athena Wireless Node

Tiny Controller. Tremendous Power.

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The new Athena Wireless Node is an ultra-small, wireless, integral fixture controller. Packed with technology and endlessly versatile, this tiny device can handle communications via DALI 2 with DALI Type 8, 0-10V, Clear Connect Type X, and simplifies the set-up process with bluetooth.

Works with your fixture


Smaller than a quarter, the Athena Wireless node is engineered to fit a standard knockout and designed to meet the open, globally-accepted D4I standard. And with black and white options, almost any fixture can be Athena enabled.


Tunable White and Static White


Gone are the days of worrying about fixture-control compatibility or frustrating redesigns. The Athena Wireless Node controls both tunable white and static white light, so if your fixture changes during design, there's no need to change controls.


Cloud-Connected



With a network of Athena Wireless Nodes, your clients can easily update the layout of their space overtime. Onboard software will be continually upgraded, unlocking new system features and capabilities as they are released.


Spec Sheet

Rectilinear Bollard luminaire

designed to match the Ratio Area,

Flood and Wall product lines.

Features & Benefits

  • Each side of the bollard has it’s own LED board so you can choose to illuminate any section, giving you light in 90 degree increments.


  • Includes a variety of distributions for lighting applications such as parks, schools, retail, and corporate campuses



  • Available in 24", 30", 36" and 42" heights


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