How Smart Lighting Can Benefit your Business

For business, among the most inescapable fixed cost is that of keeping the lights on. After all, it’s difficult to do any kind of work well when you can’t see what you’re doing. Over recent years, tremendous advances have been made in lighting technology, and consequently businesses have been able to reap the financial and environmental benefits. The culmination of this is so-called ‘smart’ lighting; which consists of lighting bulbs and drivers which are connected wirelessly, allowing usage to be monitored, and control signals sent remotely. Let’s assess some of the ways in which smart-lighting might benefit your business Measuring Savings Reducing waste is often a matter of identifying it in the first place.

This is an area where smart- lighting excels; it can report exactly when a given light was on. When this data is paired data from other sources, like activity, it allows a business to assess where energy is being wasted, without having to spend time constantly monitoring when lights are on and when they aren’t. Changing Aesthetics One of the major advantages of a smart-bulb is their RGB capability. By changing the proportions of red, green and blue light, it’s possible to change the entire mood of an internal space. This might make it possible to simulate a day/night cycle indoors, but it also offers the flexibility to change the mood in the office without saying a word. Remote Control Building wireless capability and microprocessors right into the bulbs themselves means that we can now control bulbs remotely. There’s no infra-red beam to worry about, so objects getting in the line of sight isn’t an issue.

What’s more, with a smart light, you’ll be able to remotely turn the lights on and off via the internet. So, if you forget to turn the lights on and then board a flight to Australia, you’ll be able to correct the mistake when you land. Superior Efficiency Since the invention of the light bulb, there has been no shortage of devices built to better control them. From the Darlington pair, which is able to handle large loads using a small control signal, to the light-emitting diode, which forms a major part of the current generation of lighting technology, to a host of other technologies which sit on the RS Components catalogue, these advances have helped to make lighting technology cheaper to run and produce, and smarter, too!