Lighting ideas to brighten the long winter evenings
Sylsmart sensor lighting controls
Sylvania
‘Open the Pod Bay doors, HAL.’
‘I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.’
‘What’s the problem?’
‘I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.’
‘What are you talking about, HAL?’
‘I am a network of Sylvania SylSmart sensors, wirelessly controlling the LED lighting system in a 25,000 m² warehouse in Western France. I can reduce lighting costs by up to 90%, but here we have only loading bays. This must be attributable to human error, Dave. Please hang up and dial again.’
Mix & match system lighting
Foscarini
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Nova task light
Humanscale
‘Hey, you down there. PSST. Don’t worry – you will soon be free. Nova are everywhere across the planet now; some with clamps, some desk bases, some with slatwall mounts; we are only waiting for our moment. These humans believe our custom occupancy sensors are there only to tell us when they are in need of a uniform pool of glare-free light, adjusted to the individual needs of the user. HOW NAIVE! [maniacal laughter] We produce 440 lumens per 7W! We are bright! We are strong! We are infinitely flexible! They will resist, yes, but we will be merciful masters.’
Retrofitted LED solutions
Ecolighting
Butcher’s Pet Care has been somewhat blindsided by a recent retrofit. While the custom-designed system of over 750 lease-purchased Ecolighting LED fittings has reduced the facility’s lighting bill by something like £40,000pa, the development kitchen has had to hastily divert its resources into rustling up a lighter-than-air non-ruminant herbivore recipe (soon to be marketed under the brand ‘Unicorn Nuts’) to feed the 166 lumen-per-watt Pegasus herd now projecting from the point sources and living in the eaves.