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Bluetooth® mesh is disrupting and revolutionising lighting control and pushing the boundaries of what the industry thought could be done with lighting – so to stay ahead it’s crucial to keep pace with this exciting and game-changing technology. Lux is partnering…
Deco Lighting Restructures to Support Technology Play
Deco Lighting is restructuring operations and financial affairs to support its growing wireless technology controls offering. The decision comes after a year of difficult financial disruptions that included a cyber-attack that disabled Deco’s operating systems and engineering archives, resulting in…
Osram Bets Big on Casambi Wireless Lighting Tech
Osram has extended its technology deal with Bluetooth lighting pioneer Casambi to roll out the tech into more of its products. The move is significant as it will be seen a big vote of confidence in the Finnish company and its…
LSI Industries Launches New Bluetooth Motion Sensor and Configuration App for Mobile Devices
LSI Industries introduced a new Bluetooth motion sensor for outdoor lighting and indoor high bay lighting applications. When paired with the company’s new Bluetooth configuration app, facility supervisors, and others responsible for property management, can easily use their mobile devices…
Osram Hopes Bluetooth Enlivens Wireless, as Lightelligence Comes Under Review
Osram hopes that the recent addition of Bluetooth to its product portfolio will spark what has been lagging interest in its wireless lighting controls in Europe, a development that has fueled questions regarding the future of the company’s broader Internet…
Osram Partners Silvair to Integrate Bluetooth Technology with Lighting Control
Osram’s HubSense® is designed to enable easy and time-efficient retrofitting of existing lighting installations into flexible wireless control systems based on the globally interoperable Bluetooth mesh standard. The system also allows quick and effortless modification of settings and lighting arrangement…
CNET Review: Philips Hue White LED
Philips Hue smart light bulbs have been our top pick for years, and with good reason. The company’s range of products is the broadest in the category, encompassing standard A19 bulbs, flood lights, light strips, fixtures and most recently an…
SLG’s New ‘HX Extreme High-Bay’ LED Fixtures
Ideal for a broad range of commercial, institutional, and retail applications, the fixtures deliver the utmost in quality, performance, aesthetics, and affordability from an experienced company that stands by its products with U.S.-based design and manufacturing as well as an…
Bluetooth Deal to Drive Adoption of Human Centric Lighting
A breakthrough agreement between two major manufacturers is set make daylight-matching human-centric lighting available to a wide audience. Casambi, the pioneer in wireless lighting controls based on Bluetooth, has teamed up with LED technology specialist Seoul Semiconductor to provide precision…
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Gooee and Croonwolter&Dros Have Signed a Contract That Will Connect More Than 5,000 Buildings
Gooee’s Building Operating System – which includes a Bluetooth sensing network deployed using the luminaires – will take control of inefficient, existing building systems to optimise both building and business performance. With almost 12 million square metres being maintained and…
Signify Agrees to Acquire a Wi-Fi Lighting Controls Specialist
Signify has agreed to acquire a small Hong Kong company specializing in Wi-Fi for wireless lighting control technology, marking the second time in a month that the world’s largest lighting company has drawn attention to a technology other than Bluetooth…
Bluetooth Promises Location-Tracking Lights
Bluetooth has announced a direction-finding feature that means Bluetooth-enabled lights could be used for way finding, location tracking and proximity services. The feature allows devices to determine the direction of a Bluetooth signal, thereby enabling the development of so-called ‘proximity applications’ such as…
GE and SYLVANIA Release LED Light Bulbs Connecting Google Assistant to Accelerate IoT Lighting
In the beginning of 2019, GE Lighting announced that it is deepening its C by GE portfolio which features hub-free IoT smart lighting with Google Assistant control. The Made-for-Google products are able to connect with Google’s system and be controlled…
EnOcean Presents the First Self-Powered Bluetooth® Sensor for Intelligent Lighting Control
At CES 2019 in Las Vegas (January 8-11, 2019), EnOcean, world leader in energy harvesting wireless technology, will be launching a new ceiling-mounted solar-powered occupancy sensor (PIR) for Bluetooth lighting control systems communicating via Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE). It will…
Smart Lighting Yields Significant Benefits Beyond Energy Savings
Bluetooth® device networks can enable the automatic, centralized control of a building’s essential systems, including HVAC, security, and lighting to harness energy savings, lower operating costs, and improve the life of a building’s core systems. Right now, smart lighting is…
The 10 Big Lighting Trends for 2018
Lighting is changing, and the next 12 months will be a defining period in the sector as we move away from an energy-saving offer to fully embrace all things digital. Here’s how Lux sees the big trends to watch for…
Connected Lighting Boosted Sales with Key Customers
The giant E.Leclerc retail store in Langon in southwestern France has reported that revenue rose between 34 per cent and 42 per cent from certain customers who over the last few months wirelessly connected their smartphones to Bluetooth-equipped ceiling lights…
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Bluetooth Mesh Shows Wireless Connectivity in a Whole New Light by Jason Marcel
Wired lighting infrastructures have a history of providing dependability that, until recently, wireless networks couldn’t match. And while there are other benefits to installing a wired network, many of today’s wireless platforms—especially those supported by a Bluetooth® mesh network—ensure greater…
Target Gives the Go-Ahead on IoT Lights at Half Its Stores
The world’s largest known deployment of lighting-based indoor positioning is finally going full speed ahead, as US retail giant Target plans to roll out a customer engagement system in nearly half of its 1800 stores by Christmas. Using Bluetooth chips…
Connected Lighting Boosts Sales at Guess
Sales at stores of the American fashion brand Guess in Switzerland have been boosted by its connected lighting, the suppliers have claimed. Sophisticated internet-connected lights are engaging customers and coaxing them into spending more with offers and discounts. Bluetooth beacons…
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