January 2019

For the December 2018 issue of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR, I contributed an article that looks at the current state of the Internet of Things and lighting’s potential role in it, then check in with two industry thinkers with very different perspectives on the future: Mark Lien, Industry Relations Manager Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) and Robert Karlicek, Jr., Professor and Director, Center for Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Cliff Yahnke, PhD, Kenall Manufacturing’s Director of Clinical Affairs for Indigo-Clean. The topic? Using LED luminaires to disinfect spaces using a germ-sensitive portion of the visible light spectrum.

Acuity Brands, Inc. has announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with CIRCADIAN ZircLight, Inc. The new business partnership includes licensing of CIRCADIAN ZircLight intellectual property, and a collaboration intended to accelerate commercialization within North America of CIRCADIAN’s Zirc branded technology through Acuity Brands’ portfolio of indoor luminaires.