by Ian Ashdown | Apr 19, 2021 | News, Press Release
When the first high-pressure sodium (HPS) lamps were introduced in the late 1960s, they were quickly adopted by commercial greenhouse operators as a means of providing supplemental electric lighting. This made it economically possible to grow vegetables and flowers...
by Ian Ashdown | Apr 19, 2021 | News, Press Release
The problem is astronomical — the blue light emitted by LED roadway luminaires has been shown to contribute to light pollution, especially when cool white LEDs are used. Blue light is preferentially scattered by air molecules, and so the higher the correlated color...
by Ian Ashdown | Apr 8, 2021 | News, Press Release
In Ultraviolet Radiation Terminology, SunTracker Technologies’ Senior Scientist, Ian Ashdown dares to get pedantic about how we describe ultraviolet radiation. Do the terms we use really mean what we think they mean? Could we be describing them more accurately?...
by Ian Ashdown | Mar 18, 2021 | News, Press Release
Recent advances in LED-based luminaire design have enabled greenhouse operators to temporally control both the photon flux density (PFD) and spectral irradiance incident upon the plant canopy. However, it is difficult to predict the performance and benefits of these...
by Ian Ashdown | Mar 17, 2021 | Patents, SunTracker Patents
https://patents.google.com/patent/US10952302B2/en SunTracker is proud to announce that on 16 March 2021, the USPTO issued patent US10,952,302,B2 “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE OPTIMIZATION OF RADIANCE MODELLING AND CONTROLS IN PREDICTIVE DAYLIGHT HARVESTING”...
