Objective "Lighting accounts for 30% of all electricity usage in offices, homes, transport systems and retail. It is expected to be revolutionised by the widespread introduction of LED solid state technology. However, LED technology has some major problems to overcome on the delivered efficiency of multi-LED lights, cost, and the quality of the light colour produced.HERCULES will produce solutions for LED lighting for a range of applications. It will build on a successfully demonstrated concept that combines the light from different LED sources to produce near perfect colour rendition at colour temperatures as low as 2500K. HERCULES will provide the normal benefits of LED lighting – high electrical energy to light conversion efficiency (reducing energy consumption), instant start-up and efficient dimmability, but will also allow tuneable colour rendering for applications such as food retailing.It is essential that light sources produce high quality colour rendition, which has proved critical to the health and productivity of workers. High efficiency LEDs have very poor colour rendering and current approaches use multiple phosphors on each LED to generate a poor typically “blue rich” approximation to natural light. These phosphors can seriously reduce the efficiency of the LED, so more LEDs are required to achieve the light ouput. In a compact light source this has the effect of increasing the temperature of the LEDs, which has a very negative feedback as their efficiency decreases rapidly with temperature. The HERCULES solution will overcome this serious limitation.The key developments in this project will be:• Characterisation and selection of suitable high efficiency LEDs• Novel electronic driver design• Optical design for several form factors, especially to de-image LEDs• Low cost injection moulding tool making technique for optical finish• Precision injection moulding of optical elements• Novel luminaire design for indoor/outdoor/specialist applications" Fields of science engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcolorssocial scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity Programme(s) FP7-SME - Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs Topic(s) SME-2011-1 - Research for SMEs Call for proposal FP7-SME-2011 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme BSG-SME - Research for SMEs Coordinator BRANDON MEDICAL COMPANY LIMITED Address Holme well road middleton LS10 4TQ Leeds United Kingdom See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Graeme Hall (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all SYNERGY MEDICAL SYSTEMS LTD Ireland EU contribution € 88 133,26 Address Quayside business park 2nd floor NA Dundalk louth See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Maurice Quail (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data DISENO Y TECNOLOGIA DEL MOLDE CUMSA SL Spain EU contribution € 192 335,20 Address Juan ramon jimenez 8 08960 Sant just desvern See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Andy Morland (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data TWI LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 75 267,00 Address Granta park great abington CB21 6AL Cambridge See on map Region East of England East Anglia Cambridgeshire CC Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Amanda Walters (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data BRADFORD TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST United Kingdom EU contribution € 28 236,00 Address Duckworth lane BD9 6RJ Bradford See on map Region Yorkshire and the Humber West Yorkshire Bradford Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Ian Hinitt (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data SAGENTIA LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 85 091,00 Address Harston mill CB22 7GG Harston, cambridge See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Euan Morrison (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data PR TARGET SRL Participation ended Italy EU contribution € 83 741,00 Address Via principe tommaso 49 10125 Villarbasse See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Pierluigi Bacchiega (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data
