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When considering making the move to LED lighting for your business, the type of light this technology provides is an important consideration to make. Fortunately, for those who require industrial scale refrigeration, LED light bulbs were practically…

To continue our industry specific look into why making the change to LED lighting can benefit companies, we're looking at how paper mills can make lighting improvements. While industrial mills are large spaces, paper mills need a keen and focused eye…

Upgrading inefficient, legacy lighting in your facility is a must. Energy efficient LED lighting is a proven concept that not only improves lighting, safety, and workplace morale, but provides substantial savings in energy costs. Furthermore, LED lig…

ED light bulbs are more energy efficient, are more cost effective and provide for a more customizable lighting system than competitor bulbs such as compact florescent lights (CFLs), metal halides or halogen bulbs. Yet still some are reluctant to make…

With government incentives, cheaper initial purchases and long term savings in terms of both cost and efficiency, there are many benefits to changing to LED lighting. One of the less well reported aspects is the benefits they can have for safety.&nbs…

Industrial spaces have many needs, but some need a more delicate touch than others. While everything can be boiled down to a science, the food processing industry needs to ensure all of their calculations are correct. If not, the outcome could be cal…

While there may be many hidden overheads in the day to day running of your business, some costs are obvious. If you own or manage an industrial workspace, then it is easy to see that a large space means a large cost of upkeep. As these cost mount up,…

Industrial lighting has so many considerations, it can be difficult to keep track. Whether you are handling sensitive materials or the sheer scale of your operations boggles the mind, you need to make sure all of these considerations are met lest the…

Making the upgrade to LED lighting is ‘up’-grading for a reason. They are more cost effective, energy efficient and versatile than traditional metal halide or florescent bulbs. Once you have your calculations, however, you still need to be considerat…

There are different types of motion sensor, but they all exist for the same purpose: remote activation. With increased industrialization and automation of services, motion sensors have been incorporated into many different systems to allow electronic…

If you have a warehouse, you have worries about overhead. It is obvious that large buildings built to store vast amounts will have a lot of space. What may not at first be obvious is the lighting problems warehouses create. Safety and accuracy are bo…

If you have ever reached over to turn the light off before going to bed and accidentally grazed your arm on a flaming hot incandescent light bulb, you'll know it's the stuff of (minor) nightmares. One of the reasons LED lighting is the lighting of th…

LED lighting benefits home and business in similar ways, but there are some which need these benefits more than others. These are places which don't necessarily work for profit and rely on funding for upgrades and general maintenance of their premise…

Playing sport can be a great way to get the exercise we need for a long and healthy life. It's not the choice for everyone, but health can't be ignored. When it's hard to stay motivated at home, a place like the gym helps keep you fit even with a bus…

You may think that LED lighting is only designed to set the mood in the living room, make a dining experience top notch or help you find your car in a busy parking garage. The use of LEDs has grown exponentially and they can be applied to improve so…

We discuss all kinds of LED lighting here at OEO. Their multiple-functionality and high adaptability for any environment means new purposes are increasingly being discovered. While this can be exciting new for home and small business owners, the larg…

There are many reasons we go out to restaurants. Whether it's a rare special occasion fine dining experience or just a need to get out of the house, we often see them as places of celebration. At the very least, they're somewhere to relax. Whate…

LED lighting has made some massive strides forward in the last few years. One of the main focal points has been one of the industry's key successes. Namely, affordability making the benefits of LED lighting available to more people in more places acr…

We can't talk about the future of LED lighting without putting it into the context of its past. With a proven track record of environmental superiority and a vastly improved longer life span, you would appropriately be wondering why LED lighting isn'…

First of all, we would be hard pressed to find an industry where LED lighting won't find some improvement to make. With reductions in energy consumption and increase in cost effectiveness, it is making business better across the board.However, each i…

Were you one of those kids who was always told to stop reading when your parent's turned the lights out? Maybe to get a few more pages in, you hid under the covers with a flashlight only to make out fewer and fewer words as the dying battery made the…

On a beautiful afternoon with a buzzing atmosphere and no other responsibilities than exploring the streets, city living is unbeatable. Unfortunately, the day to day can be trying to say the least. It has sent even those with the hardiest constitutio…

Lighting and safety go hand in hand. It's not for nothing life jackets on aeroplanes come with a torch. Lights illuminate your way through the living room so you don't bang a shin off the coffee table. They allow you to read hazard signs so you don't…

Like many of the factors which either improve or hinder our sleep, lighting does not provide a straight forward influence on how well we kip. It's not that eating food will make us overweight. Eating the wrong food at the wrong time, however, will.Th…

Light pollution stops city dwellers from seeing the full star spangled glory of the night sky. We may think this is a fair trade of for being able to read books in bed and not fall down manhole covers when walking down the street at night. Fair as it…

A Accent Lighting: Focusing light on a particular space or object. Intended to create visual interest in an area or object.  Alternating Current (AC): Electric Current in which the flow of electric charge reverses direction at regula…

“Of all the lighting retrofit solutions we considered, the OEO plug-and-play LED lamps were cost effective and fast to install – simply an amazing, high quality solution.”-Troy Baughman, OwnerTM3 Sports, Elkhardt, IN Let’s rewind back to Ju…

Once a breakthrough and exciting technology used by very few due to expense, LED (Light Emitting Diode) lighting has now become a thoroughly researched and advanced technology making its way into our everyday lives due to efficiency and relative cost…