RSL Fiber Systems, LLC, an East Hartford, Connecticut-based manufacturer of advanced lighting solutions and illumination systems for commercial and military applications, has earned its second major award in three months with its receipt of the 2010 North American Technology Innovation of the Year Award in Remote Source Lighting, presented by internationally-renowned research leader Frost & Sullivan.
The annual“best practices” awards recognize companies in a wide variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, independent analysis and extensive secondary research.
RSL will accept the award on Feb. 9 at Frost & Sullivan’s 2011 Excellence in Best Practices Awards Banquet in New Orleans.
The company was chosen for the award based upon an extensive and independent analysis by researchers of today’s remote source lighting market. In general terms, remote source lighting refers to the method by which high-performance light is delivered to any number of hard-to-reach destinations, usually in a hazardous work environment, from a remotely located source.
Remote source lighting generates light in one location and delivers it to another – 1,000 or more feet away – via fiber optic cable. The technology is safe, efficient, low maintenance and durable.
The company is the sole-source provider of remote source lighting applications for the U.S. Navy for shipboard use on the Navy experimental craft Sea Fighter, the LPD 17 and the DDG 1000 stealth class ships. Since 2005, RSL has installed some 50 high-performance fiber optic lighting systems on Navy ships, including signaling and navigation lights for the USS New York, one of the Navy’s newest vessels with the keel built using steel from the World Trade Center.
RSL and its proprietary technology are moving into new markets including mining and mine safety, first responders, homeland security, energy and chemical industries, luxury yachts and commercial ships, renewable energy and more.
In 2010, the company was named the state’s leading Connecticut technology company in revenue growth in the advanced manufacturing category by the Connecticut Technology Council and Marcum, LLP. RSL has also earned the Silver Connecticut Quality Innovation Award, and been nominated for “Business of the Year” by the Greater Hartford Chamber of Commerce.
A division of Skyler Technologies Group, more about the company may be found at www.rslfibersystems.com.
