3 Benefits of Daylight Harvesting with Smart Lighting Systems

SMART spaces that utilize IoT-enabled solutions for daylight harvesting use natural lighting to offset your carbon footprint & energy costs. The added benefit of daylight harvesting is creating a serene environment for customers and employees across your retail bank branch portfolio. Smart systems automatically adjust lighting levels. Since your LED lights are connected to IoT-enabled [...]

Advanced IoT-enabled Controls Terms & Definitions

Helpful IoT-enabled Advanced Controls Terms & Definitions Chronological time – Chronological time schedules incorporate specific times of the day, week, month or year. Solar Time – Solar time schedules incorporate sunrise and sunset times, often used to switch outdoor lighting. Solar time scheduling requires that the location of the building be set. This is accomplished using the […]

Signify Resources

Signify, formerly known as Philips Lighting, is a world leader in energy efficiency solutions, systems, and services. Signify’s products help turn light sources into points of data that connect more devices, places and people, and contribute to building safer, more productive SMART spaces. You can find a number of Signify resources below… Videos: 1. Philips […]

Do I Really Need a New Control System? 

If your business is like most, budgets are tight and money for capital projects is not easy to come by. Even when the money is there, who wants to spend it on something they don’t necessarily need?  Nobody. We don’t want that for you either.   Thankfully, there’s another option: System Reconditioning. System Reconditioning is applying [...]

How to Reduce HVAC Costs & Maintain Customer Comfort 

When you install a comprehensive IoT solution into your retail bank branches, you can monitor who walks into your branch and who walks out. Sensors in your LED lighting communicate information to your HVAC system; including occupancy, humidity, daylight, and more. With that information, the HVAC system adjusts its temperature to the number of people [...]

Safety First:  Protecting Your Car Dealership With IoT

As a car dealer, you are part of a busy lot.  (Yes, that pun was intended.  You’re welcome.)  Dealers like you devote much of your time to the “micro” level details within your organization, and sometimes, everyone might forget about your “big picture” role as a guardian of employee safety and security.   Car Dealers:  NOT […]

Transforming Bank Branches into SMART Branches

Your portfolio of bank branches might not be ready for robots, but a few technological tweaks may be in your (near) future. With more and more consumers prioritizing online time rather than retail bank branch visits, it is important to rethink the layout of these brick-and-mortars.  What is a Smart Branch?  Smart branches provide comprehensive […]

Why LED Lighting Can Increase Car Sales 

When it comes to car dealerships, the old cliché is surprisingly accurate:  there is only one chance to make a good first impression.  Today, most car-shoppers enter the dealership equipped with information from the internet about the vehicle they covet, which is why half of all dealership purchases occur on the customers’ very first visit.     […]

What is system reconditioning?  

System Reconditioning is the process of re-applying quality assurance and system maintenance measures to existing installations to optimize energy savings and system performance.   Lighting systems are typically reliable, but they are sensitive to user error. Often, users disable lighting and controls, whether purposefully or inadvertently, if they attempt to adjust the lighting levels or system [...]