Center for Lighting Enabled Systems & Applications

09/21/2022

The Rensselaer EBESS Institute is planning a daylong conference event entitled Well-Being & Sustainability in the Built Environment to be held on Wednesday, November 2, 2022 in the CBIS Auditorium. This event will bring together industry and academia, with engaging presentations and panel discussions focused on 2 tracks, the Built Environment and Integrated Smart Systems. Registration link is below.

Join EBESS for a daylong Industry Workshop featuring tracks on the BUILT ENVIRONMENT and INTEGRATED SMART SYSTEMS.

06/07/2022

Last week Bob Karlicek was invited to give a plenary talk at the IEEE EEDAL and LS:17 joint conference in Toulouse, France.

https://eedal-ls21.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/12

02/25/2022

Congratulations to LESA Center student Xing Tong on the achievement!

Posted February 18, 2022 Xing Tong and Ahmed Elmenshawi PhD students Xing Tong and Ahmed Elmenshawi were awarded the ADI Outstanding Student Award in 2021 and 2022 Xing Tong and Ahmed Elmenshawi were selected by Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) to receive the 2021 and 2022 Outstanding Student Designer Awa...

02/24/2022

Congratulations to 2 exceptional RPI faculty members!

Posted February 10, 2022 ECSE faculty Shayla Sawyer and Agung Julius were promoted to full professorship in December 2021 in recognition of their scholarly achievements, high quality education and teaching, and service to the department, the Institute, and the profession. Prof. Sawyer received her B...

02/11/2022

CEA Article from our GLASE collaborators.

Cornell University Explains CEA. Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) is an advanced and intensive form of hydroponically-based agriculture where plants grow within a controlled environment to …

01/28/2022

New research at RPI EBESS.

H**p is going to be a game-changer across many industries, from building and construction to agriculture, all while reducing our carbon footprint, and Rensselae

10/29/2021

Bob Karlicek on Spatially Tunable Lighting.

For an upcoming article in Electrical Contractor Magazine, I recently had the opportunity to interview Bob Karlicek, Ph.D., Professor of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Director of the Center for Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications, co-Director...

10/26/2021

Creating the Crossroads for Climate Innovation - The new EBESS Institute at RPI.

Creating the Crossroads for Climate Innovation The new Institute for Energy, the Built Environment, and Smart Systems will drive collaborations to build a more sustainable world. By Reeve Hamilton On the morning of April 23, 2021, two particularly pressing emergencies were top of mind for world lead...

10/08/2021

Latest GLASE publication on horticultural lamps.

Recent advances in light emitting diode (LED) technology have provided exciting opportunities for plant lighting applications, and it is expected that LED lighting will soon overtake the still common use of high-intensity discharge (HID) lighting technology. Because LED lighting offers novel capabil...

09/14/2021

https://www.ies.org/lda/adaptive-controls-have-a-built-in-designer/?_zs=5cuFa&_zl=RA4l2

Imagine walking into a room without any light switches or control panels, and watching as the lighting automatically responds to where you and others are in the space, as well as tasks being performed. With light that is “aware,” you wouldn’t need the switch or controls because a lighting desi...

09/10/2021

https://news.rpi.edu/content/2021/09/08/rensselaer-welcomes-congressional-bipartisan-discussion-future-energy

pspanspanspanspanspanspanFaculty from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute served as experts in an exchange of information about developments in the field of sustainable energy, large-scale environmental change, and innovative and interdisciplinary research into energy storage and smart systems in the b...