Digital Lumens has secured an additional patent for its distributed LED control technology, which continuously optimizes energy usage and forms the core of the Digital Lumens Intelligent Lighting System. This breakthrough approach fundamentally redefines lighting to deliver the greatest energy efficiency in the market. The patent further cements Digital Lumens's market leadership in intelligent industrial lighting.
"We're proud that the Patent and Trademark Office continues to recognize the innovation we are bringing to the lighting market," said Brian Chemel, co-author of the patent and CTO of Digital Lumens. "Digital Lumens invests heavily in its intellectual property portfolio to create tangible and differentiated value. For customers, this technology translates into dramatic energy savings and unprecedented operational insight that combine to raise expectations of what is possible with lighting, and to drive rapid adoption of LEDs in this massive market."
Registered as #8,232,745 through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the patent application received prioritized review under the USPTO's Green Technology Pilot Program, which was established to accelerate energy conservation, the development and deployment of green technologies, create green jobs and promote U.S. competitiveness in this vital sector. The technology covered by this patent is in all products the company has shipped.
Specifically designed for industrial lighting environments, the Digital Lumens Intelligent Lighting System features smart LED-based fixtures -- all with integrated occupancy and daylight sensors -- that are wirelessly networked and centrally managed to deliver light precisely when and where it is needed. LightRules, the Digital Lumens management software, provides comprehensive web-based reporting of energy usage and savings alongside a simple interface for creating and modifying lighting system settings.
About Digital Lumens Digital Lumens develops Intelligent LED Lighting Systems that are proven to reduce industrial customers' lighting-related electricity expenses by up to 90%. With this System -- smart lights, wirelessly networked together and centrally managed -- the company is defining a new class of LED lighting that maximizes both delivered light and energy efficiency.
2012年9月27日 星期四
SBA chief visits Sacramento entrepreneur's operation
Call it a woman-to-woman trade mission. Karen Mills, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, stopped in Sacramento Tuesday to tour McWong International Inc., which recently expanded into new Natomas headquarters, thanks to a $2.8 million SBA loan.
Her host: Margaret Wong, president of McWong International, a longtime U.S.-China exporter specializing in energy-efficient lighting systems, who's been touted by presidents, governors and mayors alike for her entrepreneurial efforts.
Standing next to a warehouse table of LED sensors and lighting components in McWong's 50,000-square-foot building, Mills lauded Wong as a "serial entrepreneur," who's grown her manufacturing and export business with the help of three SBA government-backed loans over the last 10 years. The company also develops waste-water treatment systems designed for Chinese cities.
Although SBA loans were Topic A, both women took the occasion to tout "insourcing," the return of jobs - particularly manufacturing - back to the United States from foreign countries. "The notion that manufacturing is dead in in this country is false," said Mills, whose office said the U.S. manufacturing sector added more than 400,000 jobs in the last two years.
Wong said her company is starting to bring some of its Chinese-based assembly work back to this country. For years, she and her Chinese-fluent staff have traveled overseas, where they employ several hundred Chinese assembly workers to put together energy-efficient lighting systems and components.
But China's burgeoning wages, currency valuations, shipping costs and other factors have made "insourcing" start to make economic sense.
"The timing is perfect for us," said Wong. "China's costs are rising, U.S. costs are lowering." Currently, her company is exploring a contract with PRIDE Industries that would use its disabled workforce in Roseville to assemble a number of lighting products that are currently manufactured overseas in China. "The comparisons are very encouraging ... we are moving forward to expand our assembly and manufacturing in Sacramento," Wong said.
Wong's SBA loan is one of three she's tapped in the last 10 years to expand her 25-person company. In the Sacramento region, SBA loans topped $226 million as of August 31 this year, which is still below their prerecession high of $407 million in 2007. Nevertheless, Mills said the lending environment is improving and the SBA is "pleased to see the momentum."
"Our job is to put the wind at your back," said Mills, whose Northern California tour included a Walnut Creek company that installs roof mounts for solar systems.
McWong's headquarters, purchased last December, consolidated the firm's former offices and a warehouse facility in West Sacramento and Woodland.
Mills' visit was partly to pump up the Obama administration's efforts to help small businesses. She touted the SBA's efforts to "streamline and simplify" SBA paperwork by deleting 100 pages of loan requirements. She also cited the administration's efforts to get a six-year extension of an SBA "innovative research" program that provides $2.5 billion for companies like McWong to apply for research funding.
Her host: Margaret Wong, president of McWong International, a longtime U.S.-China exporter specializing in energy-efficient lighting systems, who's been touted by presidents, governors and mayors alike for her entrepreneurial efforts.
Standing next to a warehouse table of LED sensors and lighting components in McWong's 50,000-square-foot building, Mills lauded Wong as a "serial entrepreneur," who's grown her manufacturing and export business with the help of three SBA government-backed loans over the last 10 years. The company also develops waste-water treatment systems designed for Chinese cities.
Although SBA loans were Topic A, both women took the occasion to tout "insourcing," the return of jobs - particularly manufacturing - back to the United States from foreign countries. "The notion that manufacturing is dead in in this country is false," said Mills, whose office said the U.S. manufacturing sector added more than 400,000 jobs in the last two years.
Wong said her company is starting to bring some of its Chinese-based assembly work back to this country. For years, she and her Chinese-fluent staff have traveled overseas, where they employ several hundred Chinese assembly workers to put together energy-efficient lighting systems and components.
But China's burgeoning wages, currency valuations, shipping costs and other factors have made "insourcing" start to make economic sense.
"The timing is perfect for us," said Wong. "China's costs are rising, U.S. costs are lowering." Currently, her company is exploring a contract with PRIDE Industries that would use its disabled workforce in Roseville to assemble a number of lighting products that are currently manufactured overseas in China. "The comparisons are very encouraging ... we are moving forward to expand our assembly and manufacturing in Sacramento," Wong said.
Wong's SBA loan is one of three she's tapped in the last 10 years to expand her 25-person company. In the Sacramento region, SBA loans topped $226 million as of August 31 this year, which is still below their prerecession high of $407 million in 2007. Nevertheless, Mills said the lending environment is improving and the SBA is "pleased to see the momentum."
"Our job is to put the wind at your back," said Mills, whose Northern California tour included a Walnut Creek company that installs roof mounts for solar systems.
McWong's headquarters, purchased last December, consolidated the firm's former offices and a warehouse facility in West Sacramento and Woodland.
Mills' visit was partly to pump up the Obama administration's efforts to help small businesses. She touted the SBA's efforts to "streamline and simplify" SBA paperwork by deleting 100 pages of loan requirements. She also cited the administration's efforts to get a six-year extension of an SBA "innovative research" program that provides $2.5 billion for companies like McWong to apply for research funding.
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