What is smart lighting?
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You are now able to enjoy the convenience of managing the lights of your home just with your voice or wireless devices. Voice-activated lights assure hands-free help throughout your home.It’s also possible to create a better environment by set light schedules or dimming programs. With the scene management, it’s easier to enhance employee well-being by supporting individually personalised lighting via a smartphone app. Employees can use different light recipes for concentration and brainstorming.
Connected LED lighting delivers energy-efficient, mood-enhancing lighting scenes from the lobby, restaurants and ballroom to the guest rooms. Smart lighting system integrates with other systems such as HVAC and PMS to streamline operations and improve guest services.
Hence, your lights are also able to translate the audio from your favourite songs into light effects that fill the room. Create a relaxed and atmospheric environment to unwind. Or turn every beat into a light effect and transform any room into a dancefloor. The light effects are customisable and along with the music can be used to suit any mood or situation.
But what’s the case when it comes to industries? Is it still beneficial? If yes, can it be installed in retail stores, offices and hotels also? The answer is a definite yes!
Here are some advantages of smart lighting system in the mentioned industry:
Retail
Sales and outlook of a store are very closely interrelated. Note the advantages of smart lighting system and mark the date when you’ve implemented it in your stores.
Lowers energy costs
Lighting covers a huge part of your store’s monthly expenses. So, replacing the traditional with smart fittings can actually help you save a handful just by its simple date/time scheduling function. Self calibrating the light intensity against daylight level can further optimise the energy management aspect of the system.
Settings according to the mood
The right lighting has the ability to set a captivating effect on the merchandise from first impressions till checkout. Smart lighting features allow you to set the right ambiance according to each seasonal fashion mood and this has a certain impact on image branding.
Enhances sales
Data analytics feature can be implemented to help the management to design for optimum footfall, merchandise placement, marketing and promotion.
Office
The feel good factor of a workplace depends quite a fair bit on how comfortable the lighting ambience is presented.
Adjustable settings
In the modern office environment, different tasks can be assigned quite quickly and not every task and user requires the same amount of light. Personalised lighting adjustment can be achieved depending on the preference of the user. Zoning control and monitoring can be more effectively implemented when the usage of certain areas needs to change within a short notice. In more complex applications, daylight harnessing can also be implemented to optimise the lighting control.
Human centric lighting
Research has increasingly found that human-centric lighting via circadian rhythm could possibly lead to a better, comfortable and productive workplace for the employees.
Corporate image
Considering it as a part of the green and eco-friendly system, embracing and implementing it certainly helps in part with reducing carbon emissions This sets a silent example on corporate responsibility towards the society which will definitely be a good corporate image for the company.
Optimised operation
Hospitality
The very impression of a hotel is closely linked to the lighting effect that was set in place. It makes or breaks a potential client’s decision whether to patronise it even before they reach the main entrance.
Enhances guest experience
Allowing the guests to play their part to curate that memorable visual experience according to their preference. Interactive feature can also be a value proposition in such an industry.
Optimised operation
Reducing downtime in areas of importance when the maintenance team is able to pinpoint the exact failure spot and damaged component.