It seems as though the lighting market has been at an inflection point for some time now. After more than a century of contentment with various forms of the traditional lightbulb for various forms of illumination, the LED was born to save the world with unprecedented energy efficiency. LED’s could do more than just illuminate at low-power, however, and the subsequent flood of health, productivity, and connectivity applications has kept the sector at a tipping point to many exciting directions ever since. The journey of the industry to this point may shed some light on when and where it will tip. The Past “In the lighting industry, the creative aspects involve high-efficiency LEDs that have long lifetimes and can offer new lighting based services, and the integration of various “Internet of Things” or IoT services that both depend upon and add new services to lighting systems,” said Robert Karlicek, Director for Center for Lighting Enabled […]