This year the winter solstice for the Central European time zone falls on 21 December (although it took place on 22 December in 2015). During the winter solstice in these parts the sun rises late, achieves the lowest noon elevation and then already disappears below the horizon in the afternoon. It is the longest night of the year. Modern, clever LED lamps that can do more than just create attractive light help to bridge such dark days especially well.

Refined lamps and pendant luminaires from the Osram brand for stylish interior designsLedvance, formerly the Lamps business division of Osram, offers vintage lighting made of high quality materials and a modern interior with the Edition 1906: The gold color-coated LED filament lamps and clear halogen lamps are available in four classic shapes, and recently dimmable LED filament versions are also available. The PenduLum suspended luminaire from the series features a linear, purist design and has a very refined appearance thanks to its material mix of matt aluminum and textile cable. Edition 1906 lamps and luminaires create a visual highlight in any room, especially in combination.

New indoor and outdoor products from LightifyNetworked garden luminaires, a flexible light strip for outside and one for inside and a motion sensor – these are the four new Lightify products for home use coming to the market for the 2016/17 lighting season. Ledvance, a 100% Osram subsidiary, thus expands its intelligent Lightify family particularly in the outdoor lighting sector. Together with already available products, the company offers an extremely wide smart lighting portfolio for consumers that in addition to being compatible with Lightify is also compatible with an increasing number of other smart home systems such as Samsung SmartThings and Telekom Qivicon.

Ledvance will be offering the largest LED retrofit portfolio from the Osram brand from October – many models have bulbs and casings made of real glass and are made in GermanyFor the start of the lighting season, Ledvance, the former Osram Lamps business division, will be offering the largest Osram-brand LED lamp portfolio of all time. LED retrofits are becoming increasingly similar to their traditional models not only in terms of design, materials and dimensions but also with technical characteristics such as dimming behavior. As a consequence the LED spot portfolio and many other lamp shapes from Ledvance will now be available for the first time with casings and bulbs of real glass – the ideal alternative to classic halogen lamps. Around half the new products will be manufactured in Germany.

Ledvance offers electrical contractors eight easy-to-install product ranges with attractive cost-benefit ratios via the electrical wholesale sector.Ledvance has been a legislatively independent subsidiary of Osram since July 2016, and now offers a portfolio of needs-based LED luminaires for professional use for all common applications. Electrical contractors find the energy-efficient luminaires with the “Ledvance” brand exclusively in the electrical wholesale sector. The products feature very good cost-benefit ratios, especially simple mounting, concise designs and durability.

The new retail luminaire portfolio with the Osram brand – reliable quality with excellent price-performance ratios from LedvanceThe future legally independent company of 'Ledvance' and currently the Lamps business division of Osram will be focusing on even more products for end users. This is underlined among other factors by 60 new luminaires to be offered for the start of the 16/17 lighting season in the retail market volume segment. Customers are offered outstanding price-performance ratios with the wall luminaires, ceiling luminaires, spots, downlights and inspection lamps as well as timelessly modern designs and proven quality.

Eight product ranges presented for installers under the “Ledvance Osram” brand with attractive cost-benefit ratios and concise designsFor sales via the electrical wholesaler channel, the Osram Lamps business unit – to be known as Ledvance from 1 July – is bringing a portfolio of suitable LED luminaires to market with familiar, renowned quality for standard applications. The approximately 60 energy-efficient luminaires with the brand name of “Ledvance Osram” feature very good cost-benefit ratios, concise designs and especially simple installation.

  The intelligent Lightify Switch: A switch with individually configurable functions The flexible Lightify Plug: A socket outlet that’s switchable via app and switch   With the new “Lightify Switch” operating element and the “Lightify Plug” system expansion, the Lightify Home version now offers products for the first time that exceed pure lighting applications – the Switch is a switch that can be individually configured for all Lightify products, and the Plug now enables many favorite luminaires and other devices to be connected to the smart control that otherwise could not be operated via Lightify.

  Osram Lamps presents a mobile measurement system with Wago technology Individual energy consumption measurements for complete buildings in real time   Osram’s Lamps business division, to be known soon as Ledvance, expands its product portfolio with regard to smart home/smart building with a mobile measurement system. The flexible measurement system developed by Osram experts and featuring Wago technology enables the real-time, individual energy consumption measurement and evaluation of buildings – without having to modify the existing installation. The portable system for energy service providers and consultants will be shown for the first time at Light + Building in Frankfurt at Booth B10/B50 in Hall 2.

  An LED replacement from Osram for the first time now available for T5 fluorescent tubes An innovative highlight for saving electricity: Substitube Connected   The sixth generation of the Substitube range from Osram features a complete bundle of new products to replace conventional fluorescent tubes: T5 has now been added to the almost commonplace T8 LED tubes. With both sizes the professional models with type designations “Advanced UO” (‘Ultra Output’) feature especially high light intensities of up to 3,600 lumens with T8 and even up to 5,600 lumens with T5. The type designation of the “Advanced UN” T8 LED replacement signifies ‘universal’, and can be used accordingly with both conventional and electronic control units via plug & play.