As far back as I can remember, lighting controls were always the responsibility of IT experts. Lighting designers and end users were dependent on their skills to program our lighting vision.

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　　Any change to a lighting scene or a setting required the secure password and the inevitable and expensive onsite visit by a tech-IT integrator. For all users and designers, the hours of the final light setting were precious and we often found ourselves having a long wait. Once they arrived, they'd settle into their IT closets with their laptops, clicking on keys and making changes for us, sometimes even with a walkie-talkie as the control logic wasn't inside the space where you programmed. Each change of a setting required deciphering control zones, symbols, and minutes in the laptop to identify the corresponding setting. From an end user's or designer's standpoint, lighting scene setting has been a challenging and arduous process. It is neither intuitive nor easily accessible. No one ever wanted to repeat this complicated and pricy process. The goal became to set it once and then forget about it.