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What’s New in Connected Lighting

“Connected Lighting” will involve a lot more than illumination in the near future.

M
ichael O’Boyle, Senior Manager/ “A new system-oriented perspective is needed

Codes, Standards & Laboratories at in future lighting system characterization and
Philips-Lightolier, stated that “Lighting
regulation,” he proposed. Already there has been

infrastructure will become a ubiquitous sensor development in bio-adaptive lighting (i.e. coordinat-
network” that will encompass far more than just ing with circadian rhythms) as well as implementing

lighting as we know it today.
lighting as indoor navigation and location-based

“Connected lighting systems are increasingly advertising.
incorporating non-lighting functions to deliver “Why pick lighting [for all this]? Well, you have

new, innovative value propositions through power and it’s everywhere,” O’Boyle noted, adding
systematic energy savings, safety, and security there are parts of a connected network that will have

[functions],” he explained. In addition to motion nothing to do with lighting, but will be contained

sensing and power monitoring/maintenance, within the system. “We must recognize the separation
O’Boyle suggested that functions such as between lighting function and the other applications

“incident detection, crowd management, and embedded within the lighting infrastructure,” he said.
environmental monitoring” could become part of “But how do you know how much power is being con-

the connected equation.
sumed by the non-lighting secondary application?”

Connected Luminaires
Connected Landscape

Luminaires are uniquely Connected lighting systems can
identi ed and seamlessly integrate with other systems in

integrated into the IT network a building or city, creating new
in a building or city, and share synergies and e ciencies, and

information about their status making lighting an integral part of
and operations.
the new digital ecology.

CONNECTED LIGHTING VISION

Connected So ware

With sophisticated lighting
management so ware,
Connected Spaces
operators of spaces can Out ed with integrated sensors,

monitor and manage the lighting each luminaire becomes a point
system in real time and can
of intelligence that can share
store, visualize, and analyze information on occupancy, activity
historical information about
pa erns, changes in temperature
luminaire performance. [Philips or humidity, and daylight levels.
has a system for public outdoor

spaces called CityTouch]

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