Innovation means customer solutions
What do Victoria’s Secret, the Magna Carta, U.S. naval vessels, and the fresh fish display at Whole Foods have in common?
Each has been illuminated by Energy Focus lighting solutions.
Innovation at Energy Focus means energy-efficient lighting solutions that meet the precise needs of our customers – solutions with cost and energy savings unmatched by other lighting companies.
Our innovation process is grounded in a collaborative methodology that emphasizes customer needs, technical feasibility and solution-oriented design.
The process begins with a thorough understanding of our customers’ needs, obtained through observing, listening, and learning everything we can about our customers’ businesses, and their technical, operational, and aesthetic requirements.
When we discovered that Whole Foods had a problem with their fresh fish display—ice was constantly melting and fresh fish was being warmed by halogen lighting—Energy Focus designed a fiber optic lighting solution that keeps the fish cool, doesn’t melt the ice, reduces energy expenses and maintenance costs, while providing exceptional quality of light.
When Limited Brands explained to us the high cost they incurred to dismantle store shelving and replace built-in fluorescent bulbs, we sent a team of engineers and designers to examine the problem and design a cost-effective LED retrofit solution—a solution that’s easier to install, lasts for 10 years, and consumes far less energy than the old fluorescent bulbs.
As we discover these types of customer needs, we thoroughly evaluate potential technical and design solutions.
That’s where Energy Focus really shines, because technical and design excellence is part of our DNA. Energy Focus engineers invented short-arc, low-wattage metal halide sources, and were first to combine these sources with fiber for commercial lighting. Energy Focus also invented non-imaging optics that harvest over 95% of this light and efficiently drive it into fiber. And we invented a new generation of optical splitters that allows multiple, large-diameter fibers to be efficiently coupled to a light source.