With integrated wireless communications, connected luminaires can deliver personalized services and in-context information to people in illuminated spaces via specially designed mobile apps. This is especially true indoors, where GPS doesn’t work. If the communications grid is dense enough, a connected lighting system can create a sort of “indoor GPS” that affords the kind of rich experiences commonly delivered by smartphones outdoors. These include wayfinding in a store, mall, campus, office complex, or airport; in-context information about the immediate vicinity, whether product locations, suggestions based on preferences and prior activities, or some kind of alert; and personalized control over the immediate environment.
The data collected from connected luminaires can combine with data from other sources for reporting, analysis, and decision support, allowing the lighting system in a building or system to participate in a larger “digital ecology,” whether that’s a comprehensive energy-neutral program for an organization or a resiliency initiative in a metropolitan area.
Because connected luminaires can share information about their status and operations, system managers can monitor the lighting system in real-time, and make real-time management decisions and adjustments to settings and behavior to respond to changing conditions and to maximize operational efficiency.
Big Data is a term that describes the exponential growth and availability of data from an avalanche of new sources – especially from connected devices, which exist in order to collect and transmit information. Big Data may prove to be as transformative a technology as the Internet, as the enormous amounts of data being collected now may support deeper insight, more accurate analysis, and better decision-making, in business and elsewhere.
Another promise of the IoT revolution is the insight that comes from streaming, storing, combining, and mining massive amounts of data from multiple sources. With integration on the software and database side, connected lighting systems can participate in another major technology trend: Big Data.
Optimization benefits are of a different magnitude Our connected lighting system’s data reporting based on sensor information helps to optimize energy usage for all building utilities, not just lighting, plus it helps aid space optimization
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LED lighting system Connected lighting system Integral costs per 10K m2 office space / Indexed, 100 = ‘dumb’ LED
Lighting related costs
Building related costs
Luminaires and light sources
Commissioning and installing
Cabling
Energy and maintenance (15 years)
Facility management (15 years)
Floor space (15 years) Savings
Sensors and controllers
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