Interviews + Opinion

In this week’s featured episode of NAILD’s Get a Grip on Lighting podcast, Dr. Jennifer Veitch talks about what we know about lighting’s effect on human well being.

Hank Bergson, former president and CEO of the National Electrical Manufacturers Representatives Association (NEMRA), recently contributed an article to Bill Attardi’s EnergyWatch on the topic of overage in the lighting industry. Bergson believes it serves a useful function in the industry, allowing sales reps to recover their full costs, and sees the answer being higher commissions.

In this week’s featured episode of NAILD’s Get a Grip on Lighting podcast, Mike Connors, CEO of Bulbs.com, talks about Amazon’s impact on the lighting industry.

In this week’s featured episode of NAILD’s Get a Grip on Lighting podcast, Joe Pater, CEO of Rebate Bus, discusses the importance of utility rebates to the lighting industry.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Robert Karlicek, Jr., Ph.D., professor and director, Center for Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications (LESA), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The topic? The future for lighting and the Internet of Things.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Mark Lien, LC, HBDP, CLMC, CLEP, LEED BD&C, Industry Relations Manager, Illuminating Engineering Society, about where things stand right now and possibly in the future for the Internet of Things. (Mark was speaking for himself, not the IES.) The responses helped inform an article I wrote about the IoT for the December 2018 issue of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR.

Over the past month, I had an interesting conversation with some big thinkers in the lighting industry about lighting and the Internet of Things. Here’s what they had to say.

NAILD’s Get a Grip on Lighting podcast recently interviewed John Davenport, Chief Scientist at Energy Focus, about the health effects of lighting.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Alfred LaSpina, LED Product Group Marketing Manager, and Aaron Ganick, Global Head of Smart Business, LEDVANCE. The topic: connected TLED-based lighting.