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Progress toward specification-grade, voice-activated commercial lighting<\/a> is accelerating dramatically. Imagine saying out loud: \u201cMake the lights orange in the lobby,\u201d \u201cAdd natural light to the fitness space,\u201d or \u201cTurn the lights off in the baby\u2019s room,\u201d with instantaneous results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Possibilities range from basic commands to more complex lighting controls using artificial intelligence (AI) for privacy, healthcare, heating, ventilation, air conditioning and space functionality applications. These components comprise what the industry has termed the Internet of Things (IoT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Defining the IoT<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What exactly is the IoT? Oracle, the world\u2019s largest database management company, defines the IoT as a \u201cnetwork of physical objects\u2014\u2018things\u2019\u2014embedded with sensors, software and other technologies for the purpose of connecting and exchanging data with other devices and systems over the Internet.\u201d Some projections forecast that the number of IoT items will grow to 22 billion within four years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to IBM, connecting any device with an on\/off switch to the Internet (and other connected devices) amounts to IoT as \u201ca giant network of connected things and people\u2014all of which collect and share data about the way they are used and about the environment around them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cisco Systems notes that IoT took root between 2008 and 2009, though the phrase Internet of Things was coined in 1999 by Kevin Ashton, a Procter and Gamble brand manager (however, Ashton concedes that \u201cInternet for Things\u201d would be more grammatically correct).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How IoT is affecting the lighting industry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute scholar Robert Karlicek, an electrical, computer and systems engineering professor and director of the Center for Lighting Enabled Systems & Applications, has written extensively<\/a> about the effects of AI and the IoT on lighting technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Karlicek points out that today\u2019s AI and other technologies if properly adopted in the lighting industry, have the potential to establish a process for gauging and tracking \u201cbuilding occupancy, temperature, CO2 level information and humidity data.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an article<\/a>, Karlicek observed that, judging by statistics, there are three times more IoT sensors than humans and that IoT\u2019s value for lighting companies comes from data generation using light fixture sensors. This may lead to investment in the development of what he regards as disruptive technologies, such as solid-state lighting (SSL). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Lighting Control Association<\/a>, when integrating IoT, LED lighting can be more readily used across multiple platforms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New IoT-based lighting products <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tridonic and Enlighted, lighting companies headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, co-created what they call an IoT-ready alliance<\/a>. Among their first endeavors, the companies specify a socket allowing any type of IoT sensor or control module \u201cto connect seamlessly to a luminaire or other building system.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The businesses\u2019 first products are based on this new specification, which is being developed under a royalty-free license and will be designed with any network protocol, including WiFi and EtherNet\/IP, among others. The specification is backward-compatible with legacy lighting controls and can be implemented with traditional lighting controls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The joint progress of Enlighted and Tridonic also makes possible various interoperable solutions to smart building interface problems, including in-field retrofitting, replacements and upgrades without disassembly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the future, IoT for lighting may integrate advanced sensors for radar, imaging, autonomous vehicles, healthcare analytics and voice-activated smart home applications. Dr. Karlicek anticipates that IoT could \u201cprovide color-tunable lighting designed to improve human health and wellness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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