Lighting

What is Holding Back the Building Internet of Things (BIoT)?

A major factor that will determine growth of lighting controls and BIoT over the next 7 years will depend upon the level of penetration achieved in opening up the retrofit market, which has seen little growth over the last 15 years and still only accounts for 10% of the total lighting controls business. Wireless technology can open up this market and bring down the installation cost and significantly improve the ROI to meet the building owner’s requirements. But sadly our figures show that it has so far failed to achieve much penetration – http://memoori.com/portfolio/smart-buildings-wireless-lighting-controls-2014-to-2018/ The main barrier that is stalling the application of wireless for lighting controls is that building owners and their consultants are only just beginning to accept that wireless could deliver a robust solution and they still have to be convinced that the installers / system integrators are up to delivering it. They will install wireless when wired systems are not practical […]

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