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Zumtobel Partners to Develop IoT Smart Lighting for Commercial Buildings
March 28th, 2016We Need to Talk About… LED Lighting!
March 14th, 2016Lighting Controls are Illuminating the Way to the Internet of Things in Buildings
There could not be a better time for Lighting Controls companies to grab the initiative and increase their revenues in a rapidly growing world market; At the same time positioning themselves to move into the wider Building Internet of Things (BIoT) business. Our Recent Research on this business shows the global value of lighting product […]

JPMorgan’s Record-Breaking LED Lighting Order is just the tip of GE’s Smart Iceberg
Current powered by GE, has announced a deal with JPMorgan Chase & Co. to install LED lighting across most of Chase’s U.S. branches. The deal, potentially spanning 25 million square feet across roughly 5,000 branches, is the world’s largest single-order LED installation to date. Current estimates that, once completed, the project could reduce the branches’ […]

Cree Announces PoE System as part of Cisco’s Digital Ceiling Framework
Last week, Cree Inc., introduced their SmartCast Power over Ethernet (PoE) technology; an open platform that enables the Internet of Things (IoT) for buildings through improved lighting control. “Commercial lighting customers have resisted installing traditional lighting controls because of excess cost and complexity, and the majority of those who have installed controls stop using them […]

LEDs & Lighting Controls causing Massive Shifts in the Building Sector
The $112 billion global lighting market is undergoing a rapid transformation driven by technological change and the rules of the game continue to change for players across the industry. The Boston Consulting Group recently identified two powerful shifts: the move toward LED lighting and the growing adoption of connected lighting systems. These trends, which reinforce […]
Is Li-Fi the Future of Wireless Communications in Smart Buildings?
LED Lighting now delivers lower energy consumption, longer life, smaller size and faster switching light. It is now rapidly replacing other light sources and is expected to take a 75% share of the lighting market within the next 8 years. In the meantime as Memoori’s recent report on The Lighting Controls Business 2015 to 2020 […]

Future City Glasgow Programme Reaches Two-year Milestone
In 2013, Glasgow beat a host of other UK cities to win funding worth £24m from the Technology Strategy Board (now known as Innovate UK) to explore innovative ways to use technology and data to make life in the city safer, smarter and more sustainable. Over the last two years, Glasgow has been developing a […]

Lighting’s Future will Shine Bright by Bringing Intelligence into Buildings
Since electrical lighting was invented some 130 years, the incandescent lighting bulb has evolved at a very slow rate. It is still the main source of light across the world, despite the fact that LEDs appeared on the scene in the early 1960’s and now deliver a much lower energy consumption, longer life, smaller size […]
The Global Commercial Lighting Controls Market Expected to Reach $3.67 Billion by 2020
Our new research report “Smart Buildings: The Lighting Controls Business 2015 to 2020” is an objective assessment of the global commercial lighting controls market; which brings together all the factors that influence this industries future. The world value of commercial lighting control products in 2015 will be approximately $2.2 billion at factory gate prices. Memoori […]