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  • New Standards for IoT Luminaires

    Source: 16 May 2017

    In the lighting industry's mission to become the backbone of the fledgling Internet of Things (IoT), it faces several daunting challenges, including a conundrum: While the LEDs inside luminaires last for purported decades, facility operators might have to frequently replace the chips and sensors embedded in those same fixtures.

     

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    Not that the chips will fail. It's just that IT being IT, advanced editions will emerge every 18 months or so. That means that commercial enterprises with IoT-enabled light fittings will have to either live with older technology, or undertake costly retrofits.

     

    Now, a new standards initiative hopes to avert this problem in commercial buildings. The IoT-Ready Alliance wants to ensure a consistent, easy, inexpensive method for keeping indoor smart lighting up to date.

     

    “The Alliance is setting industry standards that will enable LED light fixtures to be 'IoT-Ready,' facilitating a quick and easy installation of advanced IoT sensors,” the new group said in launching at the LightFair International exhibition in Philadelphia this week.

     

    The IoT-Ready alliance claimed that by making sensor replacement “as simple as changing a light bulb,” it will “enable building operators to easily upgrade the sensors, ultimately future proofing their buildings as IoT technology continues to advance at a much more rapid pace than that of LED fixtures.”

     

    The lighting industry hopes to convince commercial and outdoor lighting operators that lights provide a perfect ready-made skeleton to house the chips and sensors that gather data for the IoT, because lights are ubiquitous and because the electricity lines that already feed the lights can also power the components, eliminating the need for problematic batteries.

     

    New Standards for IoT Luminaires

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