Color Kinetics Incorporated Profile

Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

President and CEO: William Sims

No. of employees (worldwide): 152

Office locations: USA, UK, China and Japan

 

Color Kinetics Incorporated transforms environments through new, dynamic uses of light. Its award-winning lighting systems and technologies apply the benefits of LEDs as a highly efficient, long lasting, environmentally friendly, and inherently digital source of illumination - reinventing light itself as a highly controllable medium. Color Kinetics also enables widespread adoption of LED lighting through OEM and licensing partnerships in diverse markets.

 

The company's lighting systems have been installed in more than 15,000 user sites around the world. From Broadway sets and television studios, to renowned architectural structures, interiors, and artworks, Color Kinetics' customers break boundaries in their forward-looking use of light to enhance spaces, build brands, and incite imagination.

 

Color Kinetics operates in three principal lines of business

Lighting Systems

Color Kinetics' lighting systems combine the many advantages of LEDs with advanced digital control technology to generate millions of colors, high-quality white light, and customizable lighting effects without the cost and complexities of traditional lighting methods. CK delivers more than a simple light source - its complete system solutions are comprised of versatile light fixtures, light controllers, authoring software, power/data supplies and accessories for wide-ranging applications.

OEM

Color Kinetics helps partners enter or enhance their position in the fast-growing market for intelligent LED lighting and technologies. CK offers a range of standardized OEM lighting products from components, such as LEDs and custom-designed microchips, to subsystems, including Digital Light Engines (DLEs), lamps, Power Data Modules (PDMs), power/data supplies and controllers. With proven technologies, expertise, support and services, CK's OEM offerings extend beyond the hardware and help partners go to market quickly without draining their resources and budgets. OEM partners can find success in a number of markets both within and beyond the traditional lighting industry, including architectural and stage lighting, aerospace, automotive, gaming, and consumer products.

Licensing

As an industry pioneer, Color Kinetics continues to invest the time and resources in order to create a uniform foundation for LED lighting and often makes the results of its advanced research public via licensing arrangements to fuel product development and adoption. Our industry-leading patent portfolio broadly focuses on systems and methods for controlled LED illumination and today includes 71 issued U.S. and foreign patents and over 180 pending patent applications directed at control systems, professional lighting products and systems, industry-specific lighting applications, consumer products, and many other applications, as well as advanced technologies and methods of using LED illumination.

 

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