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Selling Lighting or Selling Data?
By David Gordon and Allen Ray
Recently we touched on how the emergence of connected lighting is opening new opportunities for manufacturers and could for distributors that could explode into an array of services as the “connected” environment generates an ecosystem. Our posting generated a conversation with Chris Cloutier from D+R International. D+R works with governments, businesses, trade groups, and efficiency program sponsors to move residential and commercial consumers toward greater energy efficiency. He shared the following thoughts…
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Bringing Digital Lighting Management to the Fixture Level
Over the last year we’ve seen a move to bring lighting control to the fixture level. Many manufacturers have integrated occupancy sensors and photocells into their fixtures. Sometimes these controls are connected to a local network of lighting fixtures, but more often the integrated controls are designed to generate some energy savings by enabling bi-level switching for areas like corridors, stairwells and sometimes troffers in open offices…
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Three Ways to Communicate Lighting Design
Lighting is wholly different from any other design element of an architectural project…
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Lighting McGill University’s New Faculty of Dentistry
Lighting for the new Faculty of Dentistry at McGill University in Montreal holds a leading role in the architectural concept for the project…
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Money Matters — Retrofit or Relight
The retrofit and relight business is in full swing today. A variety of new LED replacement luminaires, retrofit/conversion kits and lamps are available from a variety of manufacturers, and whether we are talking about a T12 to T8 fluorescent conversion or fluorescent to LED, the economic value proposition and project mechanics are well understood.
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Using Light Therapy to Improve Sleep in Lung Cancer Patients
When you’re having trouble sleeping, light is the last thing you assume you need. But according to a pilot study attempting to solve insomnia among lung cancer patients led by University at Buffalo sleep researcher Grace Dean, light may just be the answer…
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Large Lighting Manufacturers Continue to Transition to LED, as Traditional Business Shrinks
The lighting market continued the move toward LED technology in 2014. LED lamp revenues in 2013 were 25% of total global lamp revenues, growing to 30% in 2014 and forecast to reach 67% in 2022…
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14 Strategies to Save Up to 70% in Energy Costs Using the Latest in Warehouse Lighting… and More (Part 2)
There is no place for poor lighting in warehouses or distribution centres. These facilities support a variety of important tasks from picking and packaging to shipping and receiving, light assembly and even office work…
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Global Market Analysis and Forecasts: Intelligent Lighting Controls in Commercial Buildings
In the midst of the ongoing transformation from previously dominant fluorescent lighting to more efficient and flexible LED lighting, the market for lighting controls has expanded broadly.
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14 Strategies to Save Up to 70% in Energy Costs Using the Latest in Warehouse Lighting… and More (Part 1)
There is no place for poor lighting in warehouses or distribution centres.
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A Qualitative Policy of Urban Lighting in the Master Plan: Elements of Composition and Light
As previously seen, a contextual analysis establishes the repertoire and hierarchy of the elements of composition among roads, open spaces, buildings. The analysis also helps to establish
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Wireless Lighting Controls —Simple and Easy?
What does anyone expect out of a wireless lighting control system or any lighting control system? Certainly the basics of occupancy/vacancy control, daylight harvesting and scheduling are required. Energy savings are also necessary, or why else do you install a control system. Worry free operation needs to be the norm for any system.
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Circadian Rhythm More Sensitive to Lighting Colour Cues
Research by scientists at The University of Manchester has revealed that the colour of light has a major impact on how our body clock measures the time of day.It’s the first time the impact of colour has been tested, and demonstrates that colour provides a more reliable way of telling the time than measuring brightness.
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A Qualitative Policy of Urban Lighting in the Master Plan [Understanding Urban Context when Developing a Lighting Plan?]
Analyzing the context is the first step in establishing a lighting plan on a site. The context is of course first the site’s physical environment, its morphology: the location of the site on a promontory or in a valley, its alignment flush with or indented from the street, its proximity to a body of water or a large park..
This project is funded [in part] by the Government of Canada.
Ce projet est financé [en partie] par le gouvernement du Canada.
