5 Trends for Future Commercial Lighting

5 Trends for Future Commercial Lighting

1. More lights get smarter, laying the foundation for more Internet of Things applications

Occupancy sensors, photosensors, wireless networks and so one those smart lighting bring our life great convenience. The sales will increase a lot.
Just as important, these networks are creating a communications network for other efficiency applications. One example involves climate change: occupancy sensors can be coordinated for heating and cooling profiles. They also could be a valuable complement to security systems and policies.

2. Viable energy-efficient options to fluorescent tubes emerge

Philip “Instant fit LED Tube” provide a “click to fit” technology, that makes replacing fluorescent tube very easy (no rewiring of the ballast needed) and help owners saving of more than 40% energy, with a payback in less than 3-years.

3. Solar-powered streetlights expand off-grid solutions

Solar street light not only consume no electricity but also have lower installation cost. The systems have an estimated lifespan of 30 years, and have back-up batteries that can keep them running for up to five nights without being recharged by the sun.

4. Smart glass adoption accelerates

View Dynamic Glass works by regulating the amount of heat and glare that permeates into a building, which helps occupants make better use of daylight and natural lighting. This, in turn, reduces the amount of electricity that must be used to cool or heat a building, or to light it up, by an average of 20 percent.

5. Organizations test lighting to improve morale, health and productivity

Light can help us do more and we will make it smarter. For example, schools are studying ways that lighting can be adjusted over the course of the day to enhance productivity. Hospitals and health-care providers, meanwhile, are testing ways to change colors in order to enhance patient well-being, or calm them to accelerate the healing process. "These are harder things to do but we will keep moving.