Piscataway, NJ, USA – The Korea Photonics Technology Institute (KOPTI) has become a Regular Member of the Zhaga Consortium. The research institute creates high value-added, environment friendly, highly efficient new technology related to photonic fields such as LEDs with global competitiveness.

KOPTI plans to promote Zhaga Books to Korean lighting manufacturers and related organisations. In addition, KOPTI intends to collect opinions from Korean lighting companies and their customers on developments in smart lighting and propose them to the Zhaga organisation.

“The Zhaga Consortium is very pleased to be joined by KOPTI,” states Dee Denteneer, Secretary General of the Zhaga Consortium and continues “we are a global lighting-industry organization that aims to standardize interfaces of components of LED luminaires. Our mission includes to actively share Zhaga specifications with global and regional standards development organizations with the goal of gaining increased global acceptance of the Zhaga specifications. We therefore look forward to the membership of KOPTI and jointly informing the Korean lighting market about the benefits of Zhaga specifications for smart cities and smart buildings.”