LEDs have greatly extended the lifetime of lights across all sectors. But with sustainability demanding more of modern manufacturing, it’s time for lighting to go beyond long-lasting and embrace complete adaptability.
Adaptable lighting is something widely available yet not totally embraced by the industry. The value of making light last longer by working for you is an approach not many take.
The life cycle of the product is important. But the true value of light and what it delivers to the organisation is its cost in terms of carbon. Recycling should be the last resort. Designers – and the industry in general – must offer re-engineer-ability.
For so long, static lighting solutions have been the go-to, with the focus on sustainable, sturdy materials to build them. Areas need change over time, which makes control over the lighting a necessary evolution.
Adaptable light adheres to the needs of the occupants it is lighting for. This includes utilising intelligent systems to not be in use when no occupants are around. Lighting must focus on the value it does for your bottom line. But the discussion over what this value does for your organisation - be it a school, hospital, factory – is unclear.
The focus is still utterly on capital cost and ticking the easy-to-understand box. Lighting controls are not as easily understandable.
We have an inadequate understanding of how best to use these technologies and how to make them work for people. But the means to control them are right in front of us - with wireless solutions for a range of different applications.
No matter what the task is and what purpose the light serves, the control over it needs to be the easily usable part.
Intelligent lighting, made simple to install and use, provides greater flexibility than any other solution. To be able to group luminaires and manage them under a secure network affords effortless control and maintenance – extending that already long lifespan even more.
The new business model for the lighting industry is about disrupting the idea of the value of light. If the opportunity is taken, technology can help us make LEDs last even longer – it just needs to embrace it.
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