Lighting Controls
GE Current Makes Building Automation Statement with Acquisition of Daintree Networks
April 26th, 2016Zumtobel Partners to Develop IoT Smart Lighting for Commercial Buildings
March 28th, 2016
We Need to Talk About… LED Lighting!
In the 2011 film “We Need to Talk About Kevin”, the mother of Kevin struggles to come to terms with her problem son. Does the Lighting industry also need to come to terms with its own problem child, LEDs?! At the recent Strategies in Light Conference in California, Jed Dorsheimer (acknowledged as one of the […]
Lighting 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 […]
Smart Building Innovators Lead in Global Cleantech
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research. The newly released Global Cleantech 100 Report for 2015 includes emerging players offering innovative software, solutions and new business models, reflecting the market disruption currently underway in the smart buildings market. Global Cleantech 100 is a comprehensive list of private clean technology companies with […]
The Long Road Ahead For Smart Home Apps
Of the 4.5 million people identified as IoT developers in 2015, 1.4 million were focused on smart home apps a recent report by VisionMobile says. The report identifies seven distinct IoT app development themes; smart home, retail, industrial, wearables, smart city, medical and the connected car. It shows the smart home as the most popular […]
Philips Lighting Sale to China Collapses under US Pressure
The sale of Philips lighting business to a predominantly Chinese private equity fund, has been blocked by the US, on national security grounds. Despite the extensive efforts of Philips and GO Scale Capital to mitigate the concerns of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), regulatory clearance has not been granted for […]
Bus-Based Lighting Controls Deliver More for Less
The latest bus-based lighting control products not only offer a reduced operating cost through energy efficiency gains and maintenance costs but also the actual cost of controls hardware is changing through the elimination of certain system components. This is just one of the findings from our recent report into the global market for Lighting Controls […]
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