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Setting the standard

By Matthew Hidderley and Eve Gaut, Aston Science Park

After a long second and final day at the LEDs 2008 event, we decided to make our way into San Diego’s Old Town for dinner. The Old Town can only be described as very ‘Mexican’ and within a minute of arriving we realised that the only food option was going to be Mexican. We headed to Cafe Coyote and sat down for a reflective meal on our visit to LEDs 2008.

Our experience at LEDs 2008 has been a great one. We have learnt a lot more about the industry, including the hot topics of the moment, as well as met with and networked with some key players in the industry. Visiting the show has also allowed us to meet up with many of the existing euroLED exhibitors, which can only be a good thing!

After a reflective dinner, we made our way back to the hotel where we arranged to meet up with some people for an after show drink. Throughout the remainder of the evening, alcohol certainly loosened everyone’s tongues and real opinions came out. The general consensus is that the number of delegates this year seemed to be down from in previous years and that the exhibition area was a little quieter, however the quality of visitors were described as ‘better’ by being serious about the industry and focused.

Now seems a good time to thank the organisers of LEDs 2008, IntertechPira, for being so accommodating to their UK visitors throughout the event. We really have been treated well and felt the event was extremely well organised.

LED Measurement and Standards is taking place on October 2 and 3 at the Sheraton Hotel, San Diego. Topics discussed today ranged from Standards Making and Government Bodies through to LED Components and Manufacturers’ Perspectives. There was an insightful talk on ANSI & IEC solid-state lighting standards by Andrew Jackson of Philips Lighting Company as well as others on development of LED performance standards, energy star SSL, photometrics for LED luminaries, SSL standardisation and high-power LED lamp testing.

We’re heading back to the UK now so thanks for reading. Watch out for the Photonics Cluster (UK) team’s next adventure to Tokyo to the Strategies in Light show! Coverage for this will commence to October 13 on the optics.org blog.

Posted by Jacqueline Hewett on October 3, 2008 10:36 AM | Permalink