Daylight Management Opens the Window to Comfort and Energy Efficiency

Daylight Management Opens the Window to Comfort and Energy Efficiency

Daylight management is an emerging term referring to strategies and technologies for controlling daylight penetration in interior spaces through windows, clerestories, skylights, tubular daylighting devices, and building core sun-lighting systems to maximize daylight benefits. This article presents key performance aspects affected by daylight penetration in interior spaces, along with strategies and technologies used to effectively manage its dispersion to address the daily and seasonal changes in outdoor and indoor conditions…

 

Connected lighting

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…

Digital Lighting Management

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…