Human-Centric Lighting
The Natural Future For Artificial Light in Smart Buildings
February 20th, 2019The Future of Lighting is Not About Energy Saving, it is About People
January 11th, 2019A New Year, A New Mindset for the Smart Building Sector
The Internet of Things – human centric lighting, environmental controls, access control, big data, artificial intelligence (AI), and blockchain. All these systems and offerings, among others, have been evolving side-by-side to help create smart buildings and smart cities. The development of this smart sector has, so far, been stunted and fragmented with vendors unsure what […]
Smart Lighting Platform Leads to 50% Space Reduction for Real Estate Firm
Real estate companies can be tenants too, and when they are tenants in a smart building the technology can influence their decisions in the same way it does for their real estate clients. That’s what is happening in a four-story building near Schiphol airport, just outside Amsterdam, where $14.2-billion real estate services firm CBRE is […]
Light is a Powerful Stimulant But can we get the Productivity Boost Without the Side Effects?
“When we discovered how to make electric light, we dramatically changed the human condition and our productivity,” says Fred Maxik, a physicist and founder of Lighting Science Group. “We didn’t understand for the next 125 years was that this wonderful invention brought negative biological consequences.” Maxik’s Rhode Island-based firm, established in the year 2000, produces […]
Can Office Lighting Really Make You More Productive?
The right type of office light can make you more productive. This is a concept we’ve been hearing more and more in recent years, albeit mainly from lighting vendors and those promoting their smart buildings that feature “human-centric” lighting. So is this all just bogus science being used to reinvent the light bulb or is […]