Soraa, the world’s leading developer of solid-state lighting technology built on pure gallium nitride substrates, will cooperate with the Illuminating Engineering Society of New York City (IESNYC) to hold the lighting industry's first PlugFest at the annual Control This!, to enhance the rapid adoption of LED lighting.
 
IESNYC's Control This! 2012 is a daylong event expo and seminar series that will be held on December 5th at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City, and will showcase state-of-the-art lighting control systems and energy management systems.
 
"PlugFests are a mainstay of high tech industries, and Lighting PlugFest at Control This! is destined to revolutionize the way lighting practitioners and OEM vendors of LED lamps, fixtures, transformers, and dimmers test the interoperability between products from different manufacturers and accelerate the growth of the entire industry," said Control This! 2012 Co-Chair Meg Smith, LC, IES, LEED AP, co-chair of the IESNYC education committee, and senior project manager, Philips Lighting Solutions and Services. "This is a 'must attend' industry event."
 
Soraa will manage and run the testing using a custom-built testing panel comprised of an array of commonly used transformers and dimmers and Soraa's 12VAC LED MR16 lamps and also accommodates participating companies' transformers, dimmers, and 12VAC LED lamps or fixtures.
 
"Manufacturers benefit because Lighting PlugFest addresses compatibility--an obstacle to widespread LED lamp adoption; designers benefit because they can specify with confidence; and end users benefit because they will know that product combinations work," said Eric Kim, CEO of Soraa. "This event is all about ensuring a positive LED lighting user experience."