LEDs Color Historic Light-Art Concert with Future Lighting Solutions

170 Balloons Changed Color to Match Music`s Mood & Tempo
MONTREAL--(Business Wire)--
A historic light-art concert in Jena, Germany, featured a color-changing
performance by 170 LED-illuminated weather balloons in a custom installation
engineered by a team assembled by Future Lighting Solutions. Super-sized
balloons hung throughout the concert hall changed color on a pre-programmed
schedule paralleling the mood and tempo of the music, utilizing RGB LED modules
built with LUXEON Rebel LEDs as well as a closed-loop color and brightness
management system to achieve color consistency from balloon to balloon.

Future Lighting Solutions supplied the LUXEON LEDs from Philips Lumileds as well
as tools and services to help ensure color uniformity in the LEDs themselves.
Proprietary Future tools were used to calculate the achievable chromaticity
coordinates and thereby determine which color bins were required to produce the
required color values. Future`s binning program then ensured that every balloon
would be illuminated by LEDs from the same bin of each color in Future`s managed
inventory.

The LED modules were designed and manufactured by MAL Effekt, a German-based
Future Lighting Solutions Integration Network Member, and mounted on aluminum
tubes inserted into each balloon. MAL Effekt also developed a custom DMX512
Power module that was used drive the LEDs, generate the desired colors, and
control both color point and brightness via pulse width modulation (PWM).

MAZeT GmbH, another Future Lighting Solutions partner, supplied color sensors
that monitored the color produced by the RGB modules and sent the information
from a central DMX512 control panel to a custom MAZeT electronic for any
necessary adjustments to ensure the homogeneity of color tones from balloon to
balloon. The JENCOLOR color sensors were developed by MAZeT and manufactured by
JENOPTIK.

A detailed case study is available at www.futurelightingsolutions.com.

About Future Lighting Solutions

Future Lighting Solutions (www.futurelightingsolutions.com) is a leading
provider of LED lighting components and support services for solid-state
lighting products and installations, including engineering expertise, concept
development, full system solutions and online tools that accelerate quality
application development. The company is a division of Future Electronics.

Future Lighting Solutions
Heather Goldsmith, +1 514-694-7710
Fax: +1 514-429-0144
heather.goldsmith@futureelectronics.com
www.FutureLightingSolutions.com

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