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    Indoor Lighting

    Experts debate key issues in Lovers of Light panel

    June 4, 2019
    Strategies in Light panelists reveal just how complex SSL issues such as connected lighting, color tuning, metrics, and controls are even for experts with a game-show format adding...
    Clifton Stanley Lemon
    Indoor Lighting

    To bulb or not to bulb — Is that even the question?

    After participating in a panel at Strategies in Light, lighting industry insider CLIFTON STANLEY LEMON brings a significant debate about SSL form factors to the fore of the discussion...
    FIG. 1. The newly-built Edge building in Amsterdam is known for its IoT backbone and the ubiquitous deployment of Power over Ethernet as a backbone that enables advanced applications such as space optimization, but building retrofits need the flexibility of a wireless network and a standard intra-luminaire bus can enable flexible choices in inter-luminaire connectivity. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of Deloitte Group, photographer Ronald Tilleman; http://tilleman.nl.)
    Interconnect

    Intra-luminaire interfaces pave smart LED luminaire future

    June 4, 2019
    Standardization of an interface used to connect subsystems internal to a luminaire will allow SSL manufacturers an affordable path to delivering smart lighting, writes MAURY WRIGHT...
    As a biotech park, Medicon Village is giving rise to new ideas in life sciences, under the watchful eye of lighting-based IoT. (Photo credits: All images courtesy of Fagerhult and Securitas.)
    Indoor Networks & Controls

    Securitas wants to redefine the way lights deter burglars

    June 4, 2019
    The plan has much less to do with illumination and much more to do with — what else? — the IoT. A trial with Fagerhult at a Swedish biotech park could soon help bring the concept...
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    Indoor Networks & Controls

    Bluetooth Mesh expert addresses questions about connected SSL

    June 4, 2019
    During a webcast on using Bluetooth Mesh to connect LED lighting in commercial buildings and even outdoors, SIMON SLUPIK answered audience questions on major benefits of the network...

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    Indoor Lighting

    Consumers prefer easily changeable SSL sources

    June 4, 2019
    Although technology capabilities and quality-of-light demands support the adoption of advanced LED luminaires, in many cases the simple swap of a lamp still prevails.