Macy’s Goes Green with MSi LEDs

 

MSi Deploys Cypress LED Controllers in Macy’s Stores

By Raja Singh Chaudhary

TMCnet Contributor

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, a provider of enhanced mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value, has announced that MSi, a provider of application specific solid-state lighting products has deployed its Light Emitting Diode (LED) power controller inside the LED replacement lamps implemented within Macy’s stores around the country.

Macy has decided to replace around 117,000 traditional incandescent light bulbs in 86 stores within its chain, with new LED lamps. The new lamps use around 73 percent less energy in comparison to the traditional incandescent light bulbs, and installing the new lamps will help Macy in saving around 16,200 megawatts per hour every year, which is equal to plant over 65,500 trees in terms of energy conservation. While the traditional bulbs have an expected life of less than one year, the LED lamps offer uninterrupted services for around 10 years and also cut down the landfill disposal considerably.

“Many retailers are a little concerned about the initial investment of converting to LED lighting,” commented said Bruce Johnson, managing partner at MSi. “But if they take the time to run the numbers as Macy’s has, they’ll see that switching over produces a tremendous return on their investment.”

As more and more enterprise and retail customers worldwide have been adopting the LED lamps, Cypress provides a wide range of lighting solutions that enable the users in controlling the way their LED lamps function. These solutions comprise of stand-alone AC-DC Power Controllers for LED retrofits, and PowerPSoC, a programmable power controller that integrates onboard power regulation and power drive with a microcontroller capable of 16-bit dimming to full custom color mixing, and offers enhanced levels of intelligent integration. The company has developed temperature or optical feedback algorithms, which can be incorporated with selected designs to reduce the design time by several weeks’ duration. Additionally, it provides communication resources such as wireless and Powerline solutions as an alternative to expensive rewiring.

“It’s exciting to see our technology deliver significant benefits in a major project such as Macy’s retrofit,” said Brian Moody, director of Marketing for PowerPSoC business at Cypress. “As more companies see the tangible benefits of LED lighting, we can see a ‘snowball effect’ leading to significant growth in which we are well positioned to participate.”

In September 2010, Cypress Semiconductor announced that it released a new CapSense capacitive touch-sensing controller that will help designers to attain mechanical button replacement without the need to code new firmware or learn new software.

Raja Singh Chaudhary is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Raja’s articles, please visit his columnist page.

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GE unviels their LED Outdoor PAR38 Flood Lamps

GE’s new 20 Watt LED PAR38 lamp is ideal for outdoor flood light applications.  The environmentally conscious design provides similar lumen (light output) as a  traditional 75 Watt Halogen flood lamp at 1050 lumens.  The lamps’ L70 life is rated at 25,000 hours (equivalent to just under 3 years of continuous operation).  GE’s outdoor rated LED PAR38 comes in 2 different beam angles (25 and 40 degree).The color temperature is offered in 3000K (very close to traditional halogen color temperature of 2850K) and the color rendering index (CRI) 80.

GE's Outdoor Rated LED Flood Lamp

Product Codes – Nominal Description

61927 – LED20P38S/FL

61928 – LED30P38s830/40

61929 – LED20P38S830/25