Lighting Controls
The Global Market for Human-Centric Lighting will be Worth $849m in 2019
May 31st, 2019The Lighting Industry is STILL at a Turning Point
April 10th, 2019
There’s a Network in Every Commercial Building Waiting to Become Smart
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Lighting the Way to Smart Bluetooth Mesh Connectivity!
The Natural Future For Artificial Light in Smart Buildings
Lights tuned to emit specific colors and brightnesses can support human capacity to perform specific activities better. That is the basis of the Human-Centric Lighting (HCL) industry, which has been growing at an increasing rate in recent years. If HCL can prove its abilities, it could soon be commonplace in our buildings and cities, creating […]
The Future of Lighting is Not About Energy Saving, it is About People
“Human-centric lighting” has been around for five years or more but its definition is still unclear. The term itself is a bit of a misnomer in the sense that most lighting has been focused on humans, long before lighting even became electric. Like “smart,” “intelligent,” and other technology buzzwords of our time, human-centric has emerged […]
Seven-Eleven Launches First of Many Indoor Farms in Japan
Indoor farms have been emerging for some years now with a multitude of pioneering projects showing what could be possible with the technology; but for it to become a significant player in our food supply chain it needs big projects that put it on the map. Just such a project will turn its lights on […]
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 […]
Low-Power Connectivity Essential to Bringing the Next Generation of Secure IoT Devices to Life
Buildings consume 70% of total electricity production in the US and account for 39% of CO2 emissions, according to the US Green Building Council, the figures are similar in other developed nations. While the most recent Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS), highlights that 17% of all electricity consumed in US commercial buildings is for […]
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