December 8, 2025
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LCD Displays: Illuminating the Future of Smart Cities

Jeff Sharon012 mins

Our cities are growing, and with that growth comes a surge of challenges. From gridlocked traffic to the need for instant public safety alerts, municipalities are scrambling for solutions. Enter the unsung hero of the smart city revolution: the LCD display. More than just screens, LCDs are the eyes and ears of the connected urban landscape, powering everything from real-time traffic updates to crucial environmental monitoring. But their widespread adoption also brings its own set of hurdles, including energy consumption and e-waste. In this post, we explore how innovative LCD technologies are shaping the future of smart cities, addressing both the incredible potential and the critical challenges of this essential technology.

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The cover image for a blog post from AGDisplays titled "LED vs CCFL: Choosing the Right Backlight for Your Display." The title text is overlaying a background of many surface-mount LEDs on a circuit board, which are glowing brightly. The AGDisplays logo and website URL, www.agdisplays.com, are at the bottom of the image.

LED vs. CCFL: Choosing the Right Backlight for your Display

Jeff Sharon05 mins

Whether LEDs or CCFLs, typical LCD monitors need a backlight to produce visible images on screen. Most modern displays employ the use of LEDs to illuminate their images, however many older or lower cost displays still use the tried-and-true compact cold fluorescent as their light source. (OLEDs, a newer type of self-illuminating display, are a topic for another discussion).

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