Lighting Controls
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Osram Broadens Portfolio With Smart Building Focused Acquisition of Digital Lumens
Lighting giant Osram has agreed to acquire smart building focused start-up Digital Lumens Inc, for an undisclosed fee. The move is the most recent in a string of similar deals that have seem promising start-ups assimilated by one of the sectors big players. The deal will allow Osram to expand its internet of things (IoT) […]

The Building Controls Sector Could Learn A Lot From Personal Computing
Many technology vendors see an opportunity to separate the hardware from the software in building controls systems. Thus enabling a more robust technology product to control the hardware that already exists in buildings, according to senior smart buildings, IoT and energy product management consultant, Joseph Aamidor. In a recent article for Greentech Media, Aamidor highlights […]

Automated to Smart to Cognitive: The Past & Future of Buildings
Once upon a time, a building was just a building, providing shelter from the elements and a space to meet its specific objectives. Most buildings needed light and ventilation, heating or cooling, and often some form of access control. These needs created opportunities for service providers to offer better and more efficient systems to suit […]

Smart Buildings Follow The Light to Health & Wellbeing
Lighting is a hallmark of our civilization. With artificial light we have turned night into day; extending working, shopping and entertainment hours, improving safety and security, and allowing us to transform the dark side of the planet into a twinkling map of human activity. As is often the case, our technological development rapidly outpaces our […]

Strategic Partnerships are Critical to the Development of Building Performance Software Companies
Memoori has tracked a number of strategic partnerships between several of the leading players of building performance software in recent times. These are proving to be critical in the development of new software products but partnerships have not always been popular in this business so what is driving it? Our report The Market for Building […]

Shedding Light On Smart Building Consciousness
“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 […]

New Alliance To Standardize Lighting For The Internet Of Things
Lighting fixtures are an ideal carrier for Internet of Things (IoT) technology in smart buildings, providing ubiquitous location for granular data collection throughout the building while delivering electric power to the sensors. Yet today, only a small percentage of LED fixtures have smart sensors. This month, many leading lighting and LED driver manufacturers, IoT technology […]

Philips Launches Wireless Lighting-As-A-Service, Offering Smartness Without The Capex
“Digital transformation leaders will no longer view buildings merely as places to shelter employees from the elements but will use them to support heightened employee productivity and tools for business growth,” predicts Andrew Hewitt of Forrester Research. In late April, one such “digital transformation leader,” Philips Lighting, launched a new wireless connected lighting system aimed […]