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STRATEGIES IN

Will Lighting

Become

the Next

iPhone?

A presentation by Dan Ryan,

VP/Product of IoT Solutions at

Acuity Lighting, explored whether the

“bundling” success of the smartphone

industry could soon apply to lighting.

D

uring the Strategies in Light/LED Ryan theorizes that lighting could indeed evolve
Show in California recently, the into “a multi-service platform for IoT apps” that,

“Bundling, Disruption, and Lighting” in addition to providing energy savings, illumina-

seminar drew comparisons to devel- tion, and controls could also incorporate safety/
opments that have transformed the
security functions as well as positional navigation

telecom industry. For example, Dan Ryan pointed (as seen with Philips’ retail system that promotes
to the consolidation (i.e. bundling) of telephone, items via smartphone to shoppers depending on

music player, computer (Internet access), cam- where they are standing in the store), and building

corder, camera, and scanner into one device: the facilities optimization. Development is already un-
smartphone.
derway as Acuity Brands is utilizing “heat mapping”

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