LESA & GLASE Experts Offer Insights into Controlled Environment Agriculture in LEDs Magazine Blog Series
The LESA Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Greenhouse Lighting & Systems Engineering (GLASE) consortium experts from Cornell University participated in a four-part guest blog series with LEDs Magazine between July and October. Throughout the series, they discussed research methods, applications, industry trends and future farming insights for controlled environment agriculture. The blog series was extremely popular generating significant interest around LESA and GLASE research initiatives. Two of the four blogs were ranked among LEDs ‘Top 5 Blogs of 2019’ – including the number 1 spot.Read more“LESA & GLASE Experts Offer Insights into Controlled Environment Agriculture in LEDs Magazine […]
LESA Researchers Published in PLOS ONE for Work on Optimizing Sleep and Alertness
Agung Julius and John T. Wen’s research findings were recently published in PLOS ONE for their work on time optimal entrainment control for circadian rhythm regulation. They have developed ‘new ways to optimize sleep for alertness through light exposure‘ and were featured on Rensselaer News. Their work is part of ongoing research at LESA, resulting in several subsequent publications around circadian function, circadian phase shift, and the effects of healthy lighting funded by the Army Research Office, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense. Read more“LESA Researchers Published in PLOS ONE for Work on Optimizing Sleep […]
Executive Director of GLASE Named One of Produce Grower Magazine’s Produce Pioneers
Erico Mattos named one of only three produce pioneers by Produce Grower magazine. ‘Options to optimze, Mattos is leading a charge to find more efficient environmental controls for greenhouse growers.’ His expertise and leadership to the GLASE consortium have steadily helped ushered in a renaissance of innovation in both his approach and thinking for controlled environmental agriculture (CEA).
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LESA Research Published in HDIAC Journal for Work in Circadian Rhythm Regulation
Drs. Agung Julius and John T. Wen, and PhD student researcher Jaiwei Yin from Wen’s Research Group published in the Journal of the Homeland Defense & Security Information Analysis Center (HDIAC) Volume: 6 Number: 3 – Biometric Nanosponges as a Broad-Spectrum Countermeasure to Biological Threats for their work on “Optimization of Lighting and Sleep Schedules for Circadian Rhythm Regulation.”
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LESA Visiting Scholar’s Work Referenced in Horticultural Lighting Newsletter
Cheif Researcher Jurga Miliauskiene from the Institute of Horticulture at the Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry was mentioned in the November issue of LEDs Horticultral Lighting monthly newsletter for the research work she recently completed at LESA. Miliauskiene’s work on the effects of pulsed lighting for CEA qulaity-crop production, was the subject of a recent guest blog for LEDs Magazine as well. Read more“LESA Visiting Scholar’s Work Referenced in Horticultural Lighting Newsletter”
New publication on Lighting in Health from LESA Faculty Researchers in Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
Drs. Agung Julias and John Wen‘s methodological approach to assess circadian processes in subjects who have recently experienced traumatic brain injury, using regularly gathered intracranial temperature data. The health effects of circadian regulation are profound, yet assessments of circadian processes are often infeasible in the neurotrauma intensive care unit (ICU).
UNM Study Gauges Effectiveness of Light Therapy to Reshape Circadian Rhythms
University of New Mexico researchers and their colleagues from the LESA Center have demonstrated a new technology for gauging the effectiveness of light therapy to synchronize human circadian rhythms as a potential treatment for insomnia, mood disorders and other health problems. In a report published online in the IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (and set to lead the journal’s December issue), the team reported on a pilot study using the Smart Lighting Clinical Testbed at UNM Hospital. The lighting, sensing and control systems used were based on a system first installed in the Smart Conference Room Testbed at the LESA Center.
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LESA Center Cited in Horticulture Daily for Advanced Research Modules
Lighting research consortium brings the CEA community industry-ready technologies. Without light, plants can’t grow. The continued advance of controlled environment agriculture means that sunlight is often supplemented and in some cases completely replaced by artificial lighting. It works well, but there’s one caveat: artificial lighting can take a lot of energy. Reason enough for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to kickstart the Greenhouse Lighting and Systems Engineering (GLASE) consortium with $5 million in funding in 2017.
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Visiting Scholar Joins LESA Plant Science Team
The LESA Center is pleased to welcome visiting scholar Dr. Jurga Miliauskiene. Miliauskiene is the Chief Researcher at the Institute of Horticulture at the Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry. She is joining the Plant Science team for two months working alongside Sr. Plant Scientist Elsebeth Kolmos.Read more“Visiting Scholar Joins LESA Plant Science Team”
Solutions to the Camera Conundrum in Healthcare Using ‘Indoor LIDAR’ for Improved Patient Safety and Protection
— A small network of low cost non-imaging sensors enhances critical patient monitoring without the invasiveness of cameras. —
(Troy, New York) Health and wellness care facilities often struggle to balance trade-offs between affordable, necessary patient monitoring and patient privacy. Camera surveillance, though useful in many situations, is not always the best option for monitoring occupants in a facility where preserving privacy is also an important function. Researchers at LESA (the Lighting Enabled Systems & Applications Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) are solving the camera conundrum in healthcare settings by demonstrating how a small network of low cost time-of-flight sensors use the speed of light to […]
LESA Faculty Researcher Selected To Receive 2019 Outstanding Young Investigator Award from ASME
Sandipan Mishra, associate professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been selected for the 2019 Outstanding Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ (ASME) Dynamic Systems and Control Division (DSCD).
LESA Center Sr. Plant Scientist’s Guest Author Blog Receives Placement in Weekly Newsletter
Dr. Elsebeth Kolmos’ guest blog spot for LEDs Magazine, describes what research has revealed about plant responses to ultraviolet light. She observes there is much more to be learned about balancing taste, nutrician, and crop yield with UV light exposure.
Learn why ‘Smart Lighting is a Myth’ in IES Webinar with LESA Center Director
Dr. Robert Karlicek addresses pressing issues about what lighting needs to be considered “SMART”. How to make cognitive lighting systems and getting to “Lighting Systems that Think” in recent Illuminating Engineering Society educational webinar.
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New Senior Research Scientist Joins LESA Center’s Plant Science Team
The LESA Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is pleased to welcome Dr. Elsebeth Kolmos to the Plant Science team. Her research interests and expertise are in Plant-Environmental Interactions, Molecular Biology, Genomics, Plant Biology, Plant Physiology, and Plant Circadian Function.
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New Horticulture Light Modules Accelerate Indoor Plant-Growth Research
— LESA and GLASE are taking the guesswork out of tunable irradiant growth efficacy research for indoor farming–
New lighting modules being developed at the Lighting Enabled Systems & Applications (LESA) Center in collaboration with the Greenhouse Lighting & Systems Engineering (GLASE) consortium show real promise for advanced control over the spectral distribution of color-mixing lights for horticulture research.
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LESA Center Featured in Illuminating Engineering Society Faculty Showcase
LESA faculty and researchers provide insights and expertise into the groundbreaking research being done at the Center on the topics of cognition, VLC communication, efficient buildings, plant science and healthcare in a recent IES faculty showcase video series. To find out what differentiates LESA from other research facilities, watch the segments.
Former GE Global Research Sr. Scientist Peter Bonitatibus Newest LESA Faculty Researcher
Bonitatibus’ work in nanoparticle engineering will support LESA’s research in high refractive index materials as part of the Center’s fundamental research.
(Troy, New York) The LESA Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is proud to announce the addition of Rensselaer Professor Peter Bonitatibus from the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology as its newest faculty researcher.
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LESA Director Interviewed for Strategies in Light Spotlight by LEDs Magazine
Dr. Robert Karlicek and Vital Vio’s CEO Colleen Costello discuss how LEDs connect the dots between disinfection and smart lighting in recent interview for LEDs Magazine.
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Creating Healthier Spaces with ‘Smarter’ Disinfecting LEDs
–The convergence of continuous disinfection and IoT/Connected Technologies to be focus of presentation at 2019 Strategies in Light 20th Anniversary Conference–
Troy, NY (February 25, 2019) – Imagine the lighting in a food processing facility detecting the presence of E. coli, or lighting in a gym detecting MRSA, or lighting in a kitchen detecting salmonella. Then imagine that lighting system safely and effectively targeting and killing those deadly germs. The promising new frontier of smart technologies optimizing the antibacterial capacity of LEDs will be the focus of a presentation by two experts in the field.
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LESA Researcher First to Receive DOE Manufacturing Innovator Challenge Award
(Troy, New York) Rensselaer doctoral graduate and LESA researcher Michael Deagen (’18) is the winner of the 2019 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Manufacturing Innovator Challenge competition for crowdsourced solid-state lighting (SSL) manufacturing concepts. The Manufacturing Innovator Challenge competition is a new contest launched by the DOE last October and Deagen is the first recipient for his submission entitled, “Layer-by-Layer Stamping for Developing Next-Generation Optical Waveguides.”
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