A Guide to Smart Lighting Controls for Lighting Designers A guide for lighting designers What is smart lighting? Smart lighting isn’t just about dimming or turning on and off in response to sensors and timers. Smart lighting is connected and intelligent, so that it can change in brightness or colour in response to all kinds of stimuli. This can be used to save energy, to enable dynamic light displays, and deliver ‘human-centric lighting’ that promotes wellbeing. A growing body of scientific evidence shows that this can make workplaces more productive, by improving alertness. Smart lighting is a game changer for lighting designers. No longer are lighting controls an extra or an afterthought – now designers can build flexibility into how spaces are lit from the very outset and provide an immersive, interactive experience. Casambi makes it easier than ever to use smart lighting to take your designs to the next level. Casambi does things differently. Its revolutionary smart lighting system is based on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), a communication technology that’s far better suited to controlling lights. BLE allows a mobile device to communicate directly with a luminaire (no gateway required), and luminaires to communicate with each other. BLE also has the considerable advantage of being the only low-power radio communication technology that’s built into every modern smartphone, laptop and tablet. By harnessing the Internet of Things, smart lights can be controlled from mobile devices or programmed to respond to data from other devices and online services – such as the weather, the location of your car as it pulls up outside the front door, or the TV being switched on. With smart lighting the possibilities are endless. There are numerous so-called ‘smart’ lighting systems available – and some are smarter than others. In the past they have mostly been based on Wi-Fi, ZigBee or both: ZigBee to talk to the luminaires, and Wi-Fi to talk to the mobile device. Neither system is ideally suited to controlling lighting. They’re prone to interference, require a strong network signal at all times throughout the whole area where lights are in operation, and rely on a gateway (such as a router or bridge) to communicate with luminaires, which introduces a single point of failure, making the whole system more vulnerable. 2 www.casambi.com Thanks to BLE, Casambi provides robust, professionallevel smart lighting control from almost any mobile device – and installation couldn’t be simpler. www.casambi.com 3
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