Lighting Controls
Can Smart Buildings Encourage Productivity in the Age of Distraction?
May 5th, 2017Where and How does Physical Security fit into the IoT Landscape?
April 24th, 2017
Commercial Real Estate Firms Strengthen Their Smart Building Capabilities
The two leading service providers in the global Commercial Real Estate (CRE) market have been augmenting their capabilities in smart building technologies, facility management software and services. Major real estate clients are demanding a “one-stop shop” with more integrated services and global multi-site capability. Strategic acquisitions have been the main route to acquire this capability. […]
Open Source Platform Enables Lighting Controls For Everyone
In the late 19th century electric lighting changed the fabric of society by unlocking the potential of the night. It allowed us to work and play long past sunset, but with that came other problems. Now, in the early 21st century, we have the technology to solve those problems and unlock the human and efficiency […]
OSRAM Joins the Lighting Divestment Bandwagon
The divestment and realignment trend continues in the lighting sector as another market leader sells off its luminaries business and refocuses efforts on smarter technology. Munich-based OSRAM made a number of moves towards location based services and connectivity technology in the past few weeks and announced the sale of its lamps group Ledvance to a […]
I Know You’re There but I’m Not Watching: Smart Lighting Reconsidered
“If I sit at my desk and I don’t move, after 15 minutes the lights go out. Some offices are like that,” says Thomas Little, a BU professor of electrical and computer engineering and associate director of the Lighting Enabled Systems & Applications Engineering Research Center (LESA ERC). In another annoying scenario, if Little was […]
Lighting Controls Play a Key Role in the Smart Building Sector
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 underline the importance of lighting to the continued development of smart buildings as […]
The Future of Smart Buildings is Ultimately All About the People Inside
From access to lighting, to heating or cooling, to parking and asset management the Internet of Things (IoT) is infiltrating our buildings, trying to make them smarter. But who should buildings really be designed? We still don’t know if these invasive, all-powerful systems will be accepted by building occupants themselves. “No matter what the benefits […]
Lighting Controls Get A Boost With New Lutron PLC Technology
Last week, Lutron, a leading provider of wireless lighting controls and home automation systems, filed a patent for powerline-carrier (PLC) technology. The two-way communication system works over a building’s existing powerlines, much the same way as the popular X10 did in the 1990s, but is now infused with modern day smart technology. PLC technology essentially […]
The Triple Bottom Line Of Sustainable Building
“Although they are not taking it for granted, forward-thinking developers, owners, and tenants have started treating sustainability as a given — they simply assume that maximizing sustainability is part of their brief,” states a new report from Philips on “living” smart buildings. The report considers the development of attitudes towards sustainable building. Namely how the […]
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