“If you want to know what’s going on in a building, there’s no better place to do that than to watch from the top down,” said Sanjiv Kaul, EVP, Marketing, Enlighted. The eight-year-old Sunnyvale, Califorina, company is at the forefront of a movement that puts lighting at the heart of the smart building, and Kaul’s chairman, CEO, and well-known Silicon Valley executive Joe Costello, goes so far as to say “we give buildings consciousness.” Lighting is fundamental to an occupants experience in a building. Lighting accounts for approximately 40% of energy consumption in buildings. Lighting’s ubiquitous nature makes it the ideal platform upon which to establish the Internet of Things in Buildings (BIoT). These three statements, which we discussed in an article early this year, underline the significance of lighting’s evolution to the continued development of smart buildings. “Lighting is undergoing a rapid transformation as LEDs become the number one source of light in buildings. […]