If you have to convert your company cafeteria into a town hall venue, with a need for different kinds of lighting, or then, you need to dim all of the lights in your home when you have stepped out for a bit, Light Emitting Diodes (LED) lighting should be your first choice!
Ten years ago, LEDs…
The importance of shades in the context of lighting management is considerable, and they are clearly an asset in the home, office, and even commercial spaces. It's also clear that architects and interior designers have picked up on the importance of shades in controlling daylight when it's too bright, or by using it to supplement…
Windows play an integral part in our homes from a functional perspective and even when it comes to decorating the interiors with shades.
The recently introduced Crestron Shading Solutions helps manage indoor lighting efficiently and conveniently, and also has impressive new designer fabrics for motorised shades. These shades add beauty, convenience, and comfort throughout the home and…
Light control is critical to enhance the elegance of the room, experience the functionality of electronics involved and also save energy. If there is a simple On/Off switch to turn lights on and off, the amount of light put out by the fixtures is the same, irrespective of specific time, day or night. Usage of dimmers…
Calculating the benefits of lighting and energy management solutions in a commercial context poses a challenge to many workspace designers and the business that build them. The fundamental reason for this is the fact that the technology is more or less invisible or inconspicuous and therefore barely noticed at all. Businesses have also not traditionally…
When should you use a vacancy sensor, and where is an occupancy sensor a better fit
On the surface, it may seem like vacancy and occupancy sensors perform the same task, of automating the process of turning off lights to save power. But there is a significant difference in how they work which affects our…
As organisations grow and become more successful they also inevitably need to expand office space to accommodate a larger team. Unfortunately as the facilities and offices grow, so does the wastage of resources – with power consumption fast becoming one of the key areas of concern.
But getting people to change how they view and manage…
We're happy to share that the Actis Lighting and Energy Management team recently won an award in the commercial (enterprise) segment for our work on implementing Lighting Management Systems (LMS) in India.
Lutron is one of the world's leading solution providers in the area of lighting control and management systems.
LED’s open the way to new applications and markets in various different fields with a broad spectrum of requirements.
LED lighting has been revolutionary and perception of it as the leading commercially available lighting technology is transforming the lighting industry rapidly. One of its most important traits is its high reliability – whereby a lifetime of…
In a note titled “Measured light vs. perceived light”, Lutron describes the difference as follows…
“The human eye responds to low light levels by enlarging the pupil, allowing more light to enter the eye. This response results in a difference between measured and perceived light levels. A lamp that is dimmed to 10% of its maximum…
As we get increasingly aware of the need to reduce our power consumption, the use of LED lighting and lighting control systems has become a very popular means to do this.
However, the use of LED lighting indoors during daylight hours means that unnecessary and wasteful consumption continues to exist. This is especially true in corporate…
Colour temperature (or correlated colour temperature, CCT) is a number indicating the degree of yellowness or blueness of a white light source. Measured in kelvins (K), CCT represents the temperature an incandescent object (like a filament) must reach to mimic the colour of the lamp.
Yellowish-white (warm) sources, like incandescent lamps, have lower colour temperatures in…