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Last week, Acuity Brands announced a strategic partnership with, light sensory networks firm, Sensity Systems. Acuity Brands and Sensity intend to develop a joint solution that further accelerates energy-efficient LED lighting into a smart, connected platform for the Internet of Things (IoT). Their smart lighting solutions will be targeted at city scale projects, commercial and […]

Experts from politics, industry and science gather at Energy Storage Europe to discuss plans for the expansion of global renewable energy storage, as part of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) roadmap for energy storage. “The road map will guide IRENA’s 139 member states on the key activities needed to support energy storage for the […]

Acuity Brands has just acquired Intelligent Building Automation And Energy Management company Distech Controls for $252.8 million. Canadian based Distech has some innovative products to control HVAC, Access Control and Video Surveillance in Buildings; allowing connectivity and analysis of different systems. It generated $55.7m in sales last year, meaning Acuity paid an exit sales multiple […]

Gooee, an Internet of Things (IoT) technology business focused on the Smart LED lighting value chain has struck a strategic partnership deal with Evrythng the IoT identity management company. Gooee, set up by Aurora Group founder Andrew Johnson, perhaps unsurprisingly signed their first deal with the Aurora Group and its specialist retail lighting company Microlights. […]

A recent visit to Arup’s exhibition “Lighting in the Urban Age” reveals an interesting collaboration between Arup, Echelon and Xicato; which uses PLC to control lighting and not wireless, a route others like Enlighted & Harvard Engineering have already committed to. Lighting is truly at an inflection point; with Smart Lighting lying at the convergence […]

According to various sources the Scottish company PureLiFi has raised another £1.5m GBP from investors including London & Scottish Investment Partners, Scottish Investment Bank and Old College Capital and Edinburgh University’s venture investment arm. This means the company, that was founded in 2012, is now valued at £14m. The company are riding the current wave […]

What if every light bulb in the world could also transmit data? Professor Harald Haas, Chair of Mobile Communications at the University of Edinburgh and co-founder of pureLiFi, is developing a device that could do exactly that. By flickering the light from a single LED, a change too quick for the human eye to detect, […]

Switch and sensor specialist EnOcean have called upon independent engineers and hobbyists to shape the future applications of its technology. In 2014 the firm has established a number of strategic partnerships aimed at penetrating the consumer market. From its inception in 2001, as spin-off from Siemens AG, EnOcean’s main focus has been to market and […]