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LEDWORLDFEB-MAR‘18
CONTENTS
COVER STORY
10 Intelligent Lighting: Way Beyond Illumination
GUEST COLUMN
20 LED Streetlights Management Architecture:
An Anatomical Perspective
{Dr. Sandeep Garg, B. Tech (Mechanical), MBA (XLRI), PhD (AMU)}
INTERVIEW
24 Skilling The Lighting Industry
(Krishan Sujan, COO, MLS & Training Program Coordinator, Elcoma)
38 Atcom: Our Lighting Products Boast of Quality Than Design
(Shubham & Varun Sood, Directors, Atcom)
PRODUCT FEATURE
36 Simplicity Gets Wiser
FEATURE
40 The Belvedere Golf and Country Club: A Lighting Masterpiece
CASE STUDIES
46 CST Railway Station Marks 69th Republic Day with Tricolor Lit by
LED Lighting
47 Sewri Fort in Mumbai to be Lit Up by LED at the Cost of Rs. 76Lakh
EVENT
28 ASEAN’s Largest International Exhibition on LED Products &
Technology: To Welcome More Than 300 Brands
FEATURE
32 Innovations Brim at The World’s Largest Lighting
Showcase at Frankfurt
CASE STUDIES
44 The Electric Tower in Buffalo Gets Illuminated With LED Lighting
45 Historic Richmond Town Gets LoBaido’s Patriotic
LED Light Installation
NEW PRODUCT LAUNCHES
48 Innovations in the International Market
REGULARS
6 LED Applications
50 Event Calendar
52 News
62 Resource Guide
INTERNATIONAL
NATIONAL
San Diego Convention Center
Lights up With New LED Lighting
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LED Streetlights
Management Architecture:
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Innovations Brim at
The World’s Largest Lighting
Atcom: Our Lighting Products
Boast of Quality Than Design
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LED lighting has now been integrating lighting technologies
based on Internet of Things (IoT), making it the most versatile
technology that can be used in many lighting applications,
leading to the facelift of US$ 2 billion- lighting market in India
like never before. The Cover Story brings forth how the industry
stakeholders are gearing up to embrace the power of intelligence
for a futuristic Indian lighting system, which would be provisioned
with multifarious capabilities like environmental monitoring and
asset tracking that can further be scaled to innumerable real-time
applications.
Through an authored article from the renowned policy expert,
we have tried bringing forth how LED streetlights’ management
architecture should look like keeping in view the fact that energy-
efficiency is the 5th fuel to serve our increasing energy requirement.
Also, there are some concerns on the knowledge level of the
workforce hired to deploy LED streetlights as the new technology
i.e. LED requires special training on the field level to impart the needed skills enabling them to
handle this makeover.
These apart, there’s also a mention about the 6th edition of LED Expo Thailand – ASEAN’s largest
international exhibition on LED lighting products and technology. The lighting extravaganza is
likely to catapult the face of illumination especially in the LED markets across the South East Asian
region. Scheduled during 10-12 May 2018 in Bangkok, the Expo is organised by MEX Exhibitions
Pvt. Ltd. in association with IMPACT Exhibition Management Co., Ltd.
While a collection of new LED lighting products from Light + Building 2018 finds a place inside the
issue; there are a couple of new lighting solution providers with whom we interacted to find out as
to what new they have on offer in their respective kitties. Along with it there’s a lighting solution
that has been designed to set the lighting tone to wirelessly set the mood. This technological
advancement from Schneider Electric combines modern intuitive design with state-of-the-art
technology.
On applications front, the issue carries instances to hint the extent of lighting designers’
imaginations. Take for instance the two bridges that were in news recently for their grand
illumination that eventually makes them landmarks of the respective cities. While the Auckland
Harbour Bridge was lit up with ninety-thousand LED lights powered with 630 solar panels, the
Rabindra Setu or Howrah Bridge - one of the oldest and most famous landmarks of Kolkata, West
Bengal gets beautiful lighting arrangements to mark its 75 years in operation this February.
Learn more about what’s trending in the name of innovations & technology. The issue also carries
glimpses of new launches in domestic and international markets in the LED lighting space, etc.
through various articles.
Please share your valuable feedback on what topics you would really like us to cover in our future
issues.
The editor can be reached at himani@mexexhibits.com
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ADVISORY BOARD
Mr. Sunil Sikka
President
Havells India
Mr. Shyam Sujan
Secretary General
Elcoma
Mr. P. K. Sood
Chairman
Regnant Group
Mr. Amrith Prabhu
Country Manager India
Lumileds
Dr. Sandeep Garg

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San Diego Convention Center is certainly going to be the next nighttime landmark as the
events complex debuted new coloured LED lights that illuminate the recently renovated Sails
Pavilion’s fabric roof. The $377,000 lights are the same fixtures as those used in the Empire
State Building. The lights are dynamic and change colours which can be seen from downtown,
Coronado Bay and are very much visible from the air.
San Diego
Convention
Center Lights
up With New
LED Lighting
Kolkata’s
Howrah
Bridge
Celebrates
75 Years As A
City Landmark
With LED
Shimmer
LED Applications Around the World
The Rabindra Setu or Howrah Bridge is one of the oldest and most famous landmarks of
Kolkata, West Bengal. It completed 75 years in operation in February this year. To mark this event
the bridge has been installed with beautiful LED lighting by the Kolkata Port Trust. The special
lighting arrangement amplified the beauty of the 2150-foot long suspension style bridge.
LED APPLICATIONS

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Immersive LED
Light Show on
I-35W Bridge in
Minnesota
Auckland
Harbour
Bridge
Light Show
with Solar
Powered LED
Lights
Philips Lighting and Minnesota Department of Transportation upgraded the iconic I-35W Saint
Anthony Falls Bridge in Minneapolis with connected LED lighting system enabling spectacular
light shows and dynamic effects. The recently completed upgrade to a connected LED lighting
system allows the 1,907-foot (600 meters) I-35W Bridge to put on special light shows signifying
events and occasions.
Ninety-thousand solar-powered LED lights on the Auckland Harbour Bridge lit up the sky
recently turning it into a famous landmark of the country. 630 solar panels were installed to power
nearly 90,000 LED lights and 200 floodlights on the bridge by Vector Power Company. The lights
will brighten up the bridge most nights of the year along with special configurations for different
events.

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LED APPLICATIONS
One of the biggest highlights of the festival is The Harbin Ice-Snow World, a theme park the
size of 100 football fields, the largest of its kind. The park fetches more than a million visitors
every year most are tourists from the south of China who want to experience snow. The ice
buildings which are reminiscent of the movie “Frozen” was lit up by thousands of LED lights of
changing colours which enhanced its beauty immensely.
The World’s
Largest Ice
and Snow
Festival
Near Siberia
Sparkles with
LEDs
New York’s new espionage museum, SPYSCAPE located in Midtown Manhattan, is one of the
most appealing hangouts for people who are ardent fans of spy and Bond movies. The dark
concrete walls, polished concrete floors, LED lighting and kinetic, high-tech information displays
renders the 60,000 square foot space with suspense and secrets. The installation of LED lighting
has certainly added to the charm of the museum.
New Spy
Museum,
SPYSCAPE,
Opens in New
York City With
LED Lighting

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COVER STORY
Intelligent
Lighting:
Way Beyond
Illumination
Intelligent lighting is the most versatile
technology that can be used in most of the
LED lighting applications in the form of the
‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) - a platform that is
provisioned with multifarious capabilities
like environmental monitoring and asset
tracking, which can be scaled to innumerable
real-time IoT applications. It can be energy
management, remote asset monitoring, ready-
to-deploy point solution derived from this best
in the class platform. In short, it enables the
users to control the entire outdoor or indoor
lighting system in one console.
Whether it is local street lighting, highway
to sports & arena, from building facades to
basement parking, one can now control the
lighting operations from anywhere in the
world. The remote switching and monitoring
system provides most effective intelligent
controls, facilitating high energy savings and
proven ROI, whether through retrofitting the
existing luminaire fixtures or by integrating
any futuristic lighting technologies.
Lighting currently is a US$ 2 billion-market
in India and is growing at a consistent rate
of over 14% per year. Like most developing
countries, India also faces shortage of
electrical energy which hampers the overall
economic growth. While the Government has
been focusing on generation enhancement,
the supply-demand gap continues to surge
and calls for immediate attention. Energy
saving products and systems are a priority
for the entire nation and this is where
lighting can contribute to reduce energy
consumption.
The Indian Lighting Industry
ELCOMA (Electric lamp and component
manufacturers’ association of India), the
Apex body of lighting manufacturers in
India recently organised a Conference on
Intelligent Lighting Designs in New Delhi
to mark the beginning of a series of such
events in various other cities to disseminate
knowledge and enhance awareness of
the industry stakeholders to enable them
handling and catering to the high-tech
requirements of the proposed smart cities.
Experts holding forte on intelligent lighting
shared their ideas of futuristic lighting.
As the stakeholders are ready embracing the power of intelligence
for a futuristic lighting, Indian lighting system is seemingly on the
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Held in coordination with EESL, Government
of India, the Conference was well supported
by Philips, Osram, Crompton Greaves,
Jaquar, Havells and Bajaj. The event brought
together experts, who presented papers
on new technology and applications in
intelligent lighting for smart cities, wireless
lighting control, smart street lighting, and
the footprints of EESL’s national plan for
street lighting. In all, the event was designed
to cover all the topics of immediate and long
term interest of the Indian lighting fraternity.
In his inaugural speech, Sunil SIkka, Past
President Elcoma and President - Havells
India Ltd., gave a brief about the evolution
of lighting that has today reached the stage
of incorporating smartness. “Lighting initially
was limited to incandescent, followed by gas
discharged, and of course, CFLs came much
later. Till then, there was no relationship of
lighting with electronics and IT as such. But
with the game changer technology coming
in the form of LED and getting acceptance
all over the world, the entire scenario has
changed. We don’t now look at metallurgic
or ceramic scientists. We don’t even look at
people from Physics, but we look at people
who are from electronic background. This is
the biggest ever revolutionary change that
has happened in the lighting industry.”
He went on adding that the lighting industry
in India is still at a very nascent stage. “I
remember, a decade back the size of the
industry was $1 billion. Today, we are $3
billion, and probably, this is because of
the advent of LED in lighting. Of the total,
80% of lighting has already has gone in
to LED and by 2020, we hope that the
industry would be touching a whopping
$4 billion,” he anticipated adding that it’s
advantage India. “This is because we are the
underdeveloped nation and our pace was
not compared with the developed countries.
The market size of small European countries
was much bigger than us. But more is
going to change in the near future because
India is at that level where the growth of
infrastructure is growing at a very high
speed owing to the rapid urbanisation, which
changing the landscape of rural India.”
He further pointed out that the change or
the transformation now has been much
faster than what it was during the 70s when
sodium vapour technology was introduced.
“Unlike sodium, LED took least possible time
i.e. just four years to transform more than
50% lighting in to LED and rest would soon
be converted. All thanks to the government
and the EESL for their unparalleled efforts
in accomplishing the task. This was not it
but by projecting the transformation of 770
million LED bulbs plus 30 million streetlights
could help indigenous manufacturing to
touch a new high - both in terms of quality
as well as capacity. This is not it as another
30 million units are coming up with the
projection of new roads and highways in the
pipeline.”
Industry’s Lightening Stride
Taking the discussion to the next level,
Shyam Sujan, Secretary General, Elcoma first
explained that Intelligent Lighting Design
refers to the advancement in the lighting
system, which with the advent of LEDs has
become foreseeable as lighting products
are now tailored or rather customised based
on the particular application. “We added
design as the LED is different from all earlier
lighting sources, which had limitations
with their standard shape and limited
applications, while LED is not restricted. It is
not only suitable to domestic/commercial/
industrial illumination, but has opened doors
to various other applications.”
According to Elcoma, Rs. 22,000-crore Indian
lighting industry is expected to reachto Rs.
27,000 crore by 2020.“Today, we have around
50% of total lighting converted in to LEDs,
which by 2020 would be touching 80%. This
fact advocates that we have to enhance our
concentration especially in the manufacturing
part of LEDs,” suggested Sujan emphasizing
that Elcoma is very pro-active in helping the
industry grow, be it in terms of bringing in
new technology or enhancing capacity of the
industry as a whole.
“It was only a few years back that we built a
capacity to produce 1 billion CFLs. Today, the
entire CFL producing capacity is convergent
in to LEDs, especially the bulbs to meet the
demand from domestic sector which is on a
steep high. Following the EESL’s national plan
DELP, we together were supposed to deliver
about 770 million LED bulbs for domestic
usage by 2019 and I am very proud to
mention that we already have met the target
much before the set time frame.We are
now eying at around 1.2 billion LED bulbs,
which would ultimately help us save around
1000 MW of energy from domestic sector
alone. The energy consumption in lighting
at present is around 18%, which would come
down to 13%, once we meet our target.”
Going forward as per the plan, soon
all lighting in the public domain would
be intelligent lighting starting from the
proposed 100 cities. “With intelligence
incorporated,the poles would not only be
throwing lights from the top of it, but would
sport a billboard for advertising, occupancy
L - R: Sunil SIkka, Past President Elcoma and President - Havells India Ltd. ; S. K. Marwah, Director/Scientist ‘F’, Ministry of
Electronics and Information Technology ; Venkatesh Dwivedi, CGM (Technical), Street Lighting National Program (SLNP), EESL ;
Shyam Sujan, Secretary General, Elcoma.

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sensors for need-based illumination, security
camera to work as a watch dog, and WiFi
connectivity to report the fault as well as
the systematic energy consumption chart.
This is a task that would be accomplished
by the industry in coordination with the
government and EESL,” underscored Sujan.
He further highlighted, “While accomplishing
our goal of installing or replacing 30-million
streetlights, we tried completing the set
task in a hurry without even evaluating the
viability of the existing infrastructure. Also,
the workforce we hired for the job was not
trained on installing these LED streetlights,
which resulted in 30% failure. But anyway, we
learned from our mistakes as we are gearing
up for illuminating smart cities with a rather
fail-proof intelligent lighting system. At the
moment, there are 13 such cities in priority,
which are to be illuminated with these
intelligent smart lighting.”
Government Initiatives and
Industry’s Efforts
Acknowledging the efforts put forth by
Elcoma for creating awareness,
Venkatesh Dwivedi, CGM (Technical), Street
Lighting National Program (SLNP), EESL,
expressed his gratitude, “We are thankful
to Elcoma for all its hard work. We are very
sure that whatever limited success, we have
achieved is only because of the lighting
industry’s belief in us to take forward
this important task. In the last four years
that EESL has been carrying out various
initiatives, two projects are very important
i.e. DELP and SLNP as there were concerns
about the success of the programme and
if it would be good or bad for the lighting
industry.”
He further added that it looked as if these
steps put the lighting industry on a price
war. “But as time went by, especially over the
period of last couple of years, the industry
learned a lot from all the projects and
experiments that EESL initiated. In the matter
of just two years, we could see that how
much transformation has been noted within
the EESL’s procurement domain as well
as outside in the market. After acting as a
catalyst for one and half years, we were able
to trigger a much bigger change than it was
anticipated,” said Dwivedi.
According to him, there were quite a few
takeaways from these initiatives of EESL for
the industry as the price pressure would not
have been that much clear if the industry
could have continued interacting with the
market directly. “And whatever sacrifices the
lighting industry could make in pricing were
more on a compensatory side as many new
opportunities were created and new plants
were setup. We can very much observe that
the industry is able to derive a good price
outside the EESL domain and has learned
from whatever projects we have done till
date. This resulted in the large business
opportunities with market transformation.
With all this in hand, we felt that we have
done our job at least in that segment.
And there is no denial of the fact that we
have secured same level of success in the
streetlights also.”
He emphasised that in the streetlight
segment there has always been a discussion
on how to control the prices and how to
get more out of it. “From day one, EESL has
been pitching the streetlight segment to
key decision makers as lights with individual
lamp control. However, we were not able
to actually deliver such solution because
unlike the DELP, in SLNP the price was
bigger barrier followed by the ambiguity in
selection of the technology to be adopted
for individual or group level lamp control
solution whether it is CCMS, GSM-based, RF/
Zigbee or a combination of these.”
“For all this, if anyway, we would have
tried to do without consulting the lighting
industry, we don’t think it would have
been so successful either in the bulb or
streetlight segment. Although for group
control, adoption has been implemented
long back, and almost 2 million streetlights
have already been put under the group
control. But the time has come now to take
the first step in the smart cities solution to
the individual lamp level control. Once the
technology is proven and rolled out, it would
be the first step towards the smart cities
concept. It would be the way to bring forth
other services including WiFi or there are
so many option that one can choose from,”
shared Dwivedi.
Uma Lanka, Associate Vice President –
Design & Technology
Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Ltd.
Akshay Rawane, Senior Manager
Bajaj Electricals Ltd.
Priyanka Khera, Assistant General Manager
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“At EESL, we have been working with
the Elcoma in coordination of which a
committee has been set up to evaluate
various technologies to find out the most
appropriate and the best one. We are yet
to reach a conclusion on this front. If we
look at the current progress on the project,
of the total number of streetlights i.e. three
crore, we are in process of installing one
crore streetlights by the end of 2018-19. We
believe that we would be able to achieve
another 50 lakh streetlights in the next one
year. This brings a very important point that
whatever lights that are already installed by
EESL or by any other company, there has to
be a seamless integration at the maximum
level,” he insisted.
“Based on the discussion on this issue that
Ambient Lighting
Car Parking Lighting
Ranjit Singh, Associate Vice President
Surya Roshni Ltd.
we have had with the lighting industry, there
are two different solutions for the lights
– one which is already there and another
solution for the lighting that we are going
to come up with. There is already 20-30
million streetlights are on the roads across
the country. We know that this number is
going to double in the next 10-15 years
owing to the tremendous development in
the pipeline. How do we implement the
lamp level control in the Brownfield projects
and in the Greenfield projects? May be, it is
easier to Greenfield. Last but not the least
is the communication or the carrier that we
are going to use? Which are the standard,
testing protocols are to be adopted? All to
make sure that which ever be the solution
is going to come up should be robust
and reliable till its projected lifetime,”
commented Dwivedi.
The Analysis of Support
Adding further depth, S. K. Marwah,
Director/Scientist ‘F’, Ministry of Electronics
and Information Technology, said, “LED-
based lighting technology has improved
dramatically over the past decades. On
account of enormous progress made in
the field of LEDs and for their energy
efficient &eco-friendly advantages, LED-
based lighting system has revolutionised
the lighting process across the world. We
already know that the LED lighting market
in India is projected to grow at 4 billion
$ and is growing at a CAGR of over 32%.
Presently, the outdoor lighting of the
LED lighting sector is the largest revenue
generator on account of growing demand
from LED activation in streets, automobiles,
communication signage, etc. However, the
indoor segment is expected to witness
strong demand owing to strong awareness
campaign on the LED technology and
various government initiatives to subsidise
the cost of LEDs.”
According to him, with a relatively
low penetration and huge untapped
opportunities, the Indian market is showing
impeccable growth potential for both Indian
and international LED players. “The market
has been witnessing a very strong trend over
the past five years and the same is expected
to continue. The current market conditions
have created the needed competitive
environment among the manufacturers.
Adding to it is the demand aggregation by
the EESL that has played a significant role
in bringing together the manufacturers and
promoting manufacturing on large scale,”
stated Marwah.
He further emphasised that LED products
have emerged as one of the important
verticals of electronics. “Overall electronics
manufacturing has grown from 1,90,000
crore in 2014-15 to (estimated) 3,87,000
crores in 2017-18. Electronics has been
growing at 28% year-on-year during the
last three years, where electronics for LED
products has been growing at 45% which
is much more than that of overall rate. The
production of electronics has increased from
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2017-18 for LED lighting industry. This rise
in the electronics manufacturing is a result
of various policy initiatives taken by the
government and the efforts of the industry.
Based on this development, we have
observed that the growth is tremendous.
Last year, we recorded the growth rate of
imports of 4.6% less than half the rate of
previous year i.e. 9%. More demand for
electronics in domestic market, which is
growing at the rate of 19% is met out with
the domestic production.”
“Internet of Things is a platform that is
emerging and enabling us to control the
entire outdoor and indoor lighting in to one
control tool. And we can now control our
lighting operation from anywhere in the
world even through smart phones. Remote
switching monitoring and control system
provides most effective intelligent controls
and high energy savings with proven ROI
whether we retrofit the existing fixtures
or integrate any futuristic technology. The
MeITy has taken several policy initiatives
towards the promotion of design and
manufacturing of LED products. These
include incentives under the modified
special package scheme, support for
setting up of electronics manufacturing
clusters, compulsory registration order for
compliance of safety standard, support for
skill development, etc. Further we have also
modified LED products under the public
procurement order preference to make in
India notified by the department of industrial
policy and promotion.
“We are also in process of extension of the
phase manufacturing program, which has
been a success in promotion of indigenous
manufacturing of mobile handsets, to the
LED lighting sector. We look forward to
the industry and Elcoma for the needed
support and coordination. We are also in
the process of revision of the National Policy
on Electronics that was devised in 2012.
We have already taken the inputs from the
industry and we still seek inputs from the
industry on continuous process. ¬The way
we perceive lighting has changed. The sheen
of lighting has changed. Today, we can set
the lighting as per our mood. Streetlight is
emerging as the streetdogs. I believe that in
time to come the urge in the departments to
give special efforts to incorporating IoT, we
can see altogether a different lighting world
in the making,” he assured.
Lighting for Moods & Ambience
Throwing lights on how companies
perceive the intelligent lighting, Uma
Lanka, Associate Vice President – Design
& Technology & Business Development,
Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals
Ltd., elaborated, “Smart has become
very common these days - anything and
everything that we see and talked off today
as being very smart. But the big question is
what is the smart lighting that we see has
got to do with the intelligence? In what are
the various applications that it can be used
and how do we see the next era coming up
in this field of intelligent lighting?”
She put forth what exactly we mean by
intelligent lighting! “Obviously, intelligence
is related to the human intelligence that
includes right from the understanding, to
self awareness, to communication, to having
an emotional knowledge, to reasoning, to
problem solving capability, and so and so
forth. If we imbibe some aspects of these
in to the LED devices so that we are able to
come out with many mundane tasks that are
being done or higher level of intelligence
and that can restrict accidents fromAmbience Control Through Remote
Susanta Bhowmick
Osram Lighting
Gaurav Bhalla, Deputy GM-Lighting COD
Jaquar Lighting
Rahul Sharma, Deputy Manager (Tech.)
EESL

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happening. Or we can control things in such
a way which would not have been possible
manually or physically for the human being.”
She opined that the credit of this
advancement goes to the advent of LED,
which is nothing but a semi conductor
device and allows to be controlled just
like how each and every electronic device
can be controlled. “Why is this intelligence
needed? This is because we want to leverage
this particular aspect of LED and derive
benefit out of it. The possible benefits that
could be there are ease of use, resource
productivity, trust-building, etc. Once we
are able to incorporate a very robust and
reliable element of control or monitoring
into the devices, these devices can play a
very important role. Of late, it has also been
found that lighting plays a very important
role in terms of how the emotional
productivity of a particular human being
really affects? How does a human behave?”
“So, starting from visual comfort to energy
efficiency to connectivity to internet of
things, etc. are all important basic benefits
that we want to avail from LED lighting
through various applications that include
“Intelligent” Public Lighting
right from home to office to commercial
complexes, to public spaces, to hospitality,
healthcare, education, retail, monuments,
or any kind of architectural structures or
buildings. Especially, a country like India,
where energy is already deficient, we can
make good use of these techniques. For
all these areas of applications, the basic
aspect of intelligence would be the same.
Factors like consumption scalability, fault
reporting, artificial intelligence, digital
communication, automatic controls, etc. can
be incorporated,”explained Lanka elaborating
the possibilities attached to it.
Lighting for Modern Workplaces
Akshay Rawane, Senior Manager, Bajaj
Electricals Ltd. presented a rather interactive
session when he put forth a question to the
audience as what do they understand by
being smart? “Smart refers to something
that is communicable through various
means like humans, logic or system, sensors,
etc. to make instantaneous decision on-
site. Lighting, of course, matters,”he said
suggesting that workplace lighting is the
new decision drivers. “Since ages, we are
talking of various deficiencies of lighting
like under or over lighting, glare, human
comforts, etc. – all these are hygiene
factors. But there are issues arouse due
to technological advents, which are now
influencing decision makers to think about
new factors. Technology talks of human-
centric lighting, which is very important
with LEDs and electronics coming in to
the picture. It is allowing us to explore the
picture in a much greater way.”
According to him, in case of workplaces
various lighting research foundations have
found out that better lighting by mixing
the natural daylight with artificial one has
been directly linked to the reduction of 15%
absenteeism in the workplace. “Office goers’
satisfaction can be positively affected by
well-designed illumination. That’s why we
see many places are lit differently. We are
connected with lighting and we see different
places are lit in different ways. This brings
forth the potential to building owners and
managers to add value, reduce cost, and
enhance performance through the application
of good lighting alone,” said Rawane.
“Why I said workplace lighting as the
new decision drivers? Because, these are
advanced lighting systems and pay for
themselves by adopting to new working
areas as people today do not necessarily like
working from their respective desks. It brings
additional power in the hands of people
enabling them to control, monitor and add
to their well-being to enhance productivity.
Monitoring has become a very acceptable
thing to make it more reliable, sustainable
and gather information from all the
connected devices to take timely action. We
have already started talking about beyond
lighting, which means lighting is not limited
to illumination but much more than that,” he
emphasised.
Rawane also suggested that there is a
replacement for emergency lighting, which
works on battery power. “And, when battery
enters, there comes a pause for charging
or for switching over. For this, we can talk
of super capacitors with guaranteed life of
ten years advocating reliable performance
to replace batteries. Most of us use
wireless charging, which has now been
eliminating the use of wires or cables for
being connected. This intelligence can
be incorporated at places where there is
some kind typicality for ingress protection
especially for outdoor and underwater
lighting. DC power is also reducing the
size of the device. PoE is now entering the
lighting segment, eliminating the use of
electrical wires, while LiFi - the high-powered
connection and data movement is already in
the air.”
Connected Indoor Lighting Systems
- Optimising Space, Energy &
Productivity
Priyanka Khera, Assistant General Manager,
Havells India Ltd., while addressing the
audience on Connected Indoor Lighting
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Productivity, opined that technology is the
best when it brings people together. “We
tried to bring solution by integrating arts
science and business of illumination to
create prolific and productive environment.
Lighting simply illuminate the spaces, and
now with LEDs, it also vouches for energy
saving. But can we imagine a beautifully
illuminated space where a light fixture can
work as an interface to gather information?
The photo-technical flavours of LEDs
have induced enough interest among the
researchers to create a lighting system where
each light fixture gathers information from
different entity.”
According to her, this is nothing but a
connected lighting system that has become
a marketing buzzword to describe a light
fixture which has an element of intelligence
and connectivity traits. “These lights can
report their own energy usage, they can
just get switched on if somebody walks
by, and they can also tell us that which
conference room is available for now. This
means optimising space and productivity
taking light beyond illumination. But why
connected lighting? The indoor connected
lighting has huge potential to enhance the
quality, save energy and provide intelligent
data which can transform the way we live. It
can save up to 90% of energy, can maximise
the efficiency, and improves the operation.
The system allows adjusting the lighting
level as per schedule.”
She further explained that how IoT brings
forth a platform over which the connected
lighting system interacts with other
entities in the surrounding. “For instance,
communicating with the ventilation system
to increase or decrease the performance
based upon the number of people in the
room. This real time monitoring helps
the connected lighting system to make
other entities react and reduce their
energy consumption at the time of low
demand. Further, LEDs have the potential
of dimming and facilitate with colour
options for soft light to cool light to help
the users personalise the experience with
different recopies of LEDs to suit different
requirements of space and tasks delivering
the need-based lighting.”
Khera also highlighted that how the
connected system provides human-centric
lighting that monitors and enhances human
health and functions to different kinds of
lighting. “All this provides us the data, and the
data management system in the connected
lighting can lead to tremendous reduction
in energy consumption by tracking and
monitoring, in turn taking measures to reduce
the energy consumption through power
conditioning and control. All this data is
actually very important for the facility owners
and managers to think how it can further
improve the usage of power besides helping
them to future forecasting on operational
expenses and do financial planning.”
Delving on how the technology works, she
elaborated, “By providing the elements
of intelligence in the lighting system, we
are not just controlling lights but we are
widening the scope of communication
between different entities. This system is
sensor-based where every light is connected
with the sensor, which senses three things
– temperature, brightness, and presence.
The system is then connected to an entity
calledthe smart engine, which can control
48 sensors/lighting units. All these smart
engines are connected to smart director,
which can talk to 20 smart engines. This
system can be further integrated with many
other facility management systems for more
control & monitoring.”
Highlighting the power of Ethernet,
Khera said, “Nowadays, with LEDs coming
in to lighting, it is possible to supply
power through Ethernet as the electricity
requirement of LEDs is very low. This aspect,
therefore, reduces the complexities of
wiring system as the data and electricity can
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travel through the same carrier using same
platform. This whole system of connected
indoor lighting can be configured in an APP
form, which has access to the available data
through the smart engines. There can be any
number of apps. For instance, energy app
can take you to the lighting control system
talking about the occupancy, temperature,
energy saving, ventilation, etc. Similarly, we
have space app, productivity app, etc.”
Street Lighting Controls –
Opportunities & Challenges
Moving ahead, Ranjit Singh, Associate Vice
President, Surya Roshni Ltd. shed some
lights on how and why lighting controls and
monitoring has become a must now. “With
so many functions attributed to lighting, the
lighting controls & monitoring has become
inevitable. As we all know, lighting consumes
18% of the total electricity consumption.
The environmental impact of lighting as
measured is 1kw energy consumption
releases 0.92 kg CO2 in the atmosphere.
Further, approximately 2/3 of all the lighting
installed globally based on older, less energy
efficient technology, which indicates quite
a huge potential and opportunity for the
advancement of the system. However, people
have started talking technology for lighting
as there has been a revolution in lighting
during past 5-10 years. Switching from
the older lighting system to the futuristic
technology-based lighting will bring huge
saving in energy cost & CO2 emissions.”
Singh pointed out that when we explore
the historic evolution of light sources, we
found out that right from the incandescent
to halogen lamp to HPMV/HPSV lamps to
T5/T8 tube lights to CFLs to red LEDs to
white high-powered LEDs to LED dimming
control and monitoring, the objective for this
whole transformation and switching over to
the next improved system has mostly been
the energy saving than any other factors
on-board. “And need of intelligent smart
lighting is nothing but the next level of
development that was awaited. It facilitates
automatic monitoring and control of lights,
reduces the electricity bill, gets to know
the status of installed lights, lowersthe
maintenance and operational costs and last
but not the least is that it brings a solution
with better ROI.”
Adding further on the issue, Singh explained
three main control and monitoring tools -
Central Control Monitoring System (CCMS),
Wired Dimming Controls, and RF-Based
Lighting Controller – that can be used as
per the need and suitability of the available
system. Referring to a few installations,
he elaborated as how group control and
monitoring systembased on GSM /GPRS/
3G/4G/ or an equivalent proven technology,
installed in a feeder or central switching
point for remote monitoring and controlling
group of street lightshave been successfully
delivering the desired results.He reiterated
that for intelligent lighting through remote
monitoring software, we can easily control
lamps (group or individual), schedule tasks,
collect data &prepare analysis reports, based
on which the system can send alerts for events.
While speaking on such an important and
extensive area of lighting, Singh highlighted
a list of bottlenecks coming in the way when
it comes to switching over to the intelligent
and smart lighting system. He pointed out
that there are a few challenges in the form of
Centralised Monitoring & Control of Lights
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non-availability of GPRS signal, lack of ways to
combat power pilferage, ambiguity in selection
of control system / technology, installation
of lights& equipment, and most important is
the absence of needed infrastructure that can
withstand the technology advancements now,
and in time to come.
Dynamic Façade Lighting
Susanta Bhowmick from Osram Lighting,
opined that dynamic façade lighting is
nothing but the evolution of illumination
patterns and how it is perceived by people
over the period of time. “Lot of changes
are there in the lighting but have we ever
thought what these changes are here for?
Safety, security, power, lighting, everything
was there, but were functional in isolation.
Now, we are trying to connect them. We are
just adjoining them to avoid going to various
vendors for different requirements. People
nowadays do not love to go to various
lighting providers, but look for solution or
service where the solution provideralso takes
the responsibility to maintain the installation
and functioning of the system for certain
years afterwards. And this is important to
Smart & Intelligent Lighting System
design a fail-proof system or if it fails there
should be minimum errors and can be
rectified in very little or almost no time.”
His opinion on lighting was a bit different
from the league. “What is the importance
of the dark, starry night time sky? The job
of lighting is to glorify the darkness and not
simply illuminate the spaces,” Bhowmick
added that for creating or developing design
of facade lighting, the need is to ideate to
deliver the message through lights. “For this,
we have to define a concept first by defining
the event. We should not consider lighting as
smart. We need to think that how lighting is
to be treated to make the space smart. This
is how we can create or develop interactive
façade lighting, which can further be
improved with the advancement in the display
technology, accommodating the presence with
accountability for holding on future.”
Smart & Intelligent Lighting
System
Gaurav Bhalla, Deputing General Manager
Lighting COD, Jaquar Lighting, feels that
lights these days are being made to react
through IoT. “From those traditional wired
network, we are now travelling to wireless
network. Nowadays, LEDs are in huge
numbers. Even though we are the third
largest producer of electrical energy, we are
the third largest consumer of it at the same
time. The goal is ultimately to have power
for all. So whatever, we can save by changing
over to LED that again a kind of contribution
to a world which is power-starved.”
According to him, starting from smart
phones to consumer electronics to PCs
to other electronic devices, etc. all have
been developed over the last 10-15 years
and every single year, the number of these
devices is doubling. “We now have smart
homes wherein all the devices are connected
to each other.Today, we are switching over to
low-cost devices and everything has become
commercially viable. So many software and
hardware have been growing like anything to
which customers are showing very positive
attitude.New technical developments are
happening almost on daily basis.”
“We are now developing systems, which are
compatible with the existing infrastructure.
All these are helping LED lighting to
penetrate deeper with every passing day,
where main drivers are comforts attached
to it be it safety/security or smart home
automation. All are connected through
IoT and can be controlled from anywhere
through smart app.All the devices are
coming up with standard IPs, which are
connected through www and we can operate
it from one hand. We can connect any
number and any kind of IT-enabled device,”
said Bhalla.
He further emphasised that smart street
lighting system comes with a lot of features
like environment sensors, billboards for
advertising purposes, security cameras,
EV chargers, Wi-Fi system along with the
lighting. “These are the basic parameters
on which the smart city concept is working.
It will provide an ease of installation. There
won’t be any complex wiring involved but on
simple cable network the system can remain
connected through Wi-Fi. Advertising would
become easier because of the precision of
billboards. Now gradually we are switching
over to electric vehicles, so the EV charging
would be required. Security cameras are to be
monitored at a centrally located place, etc.”
Bhalla advocated that individual or group
control of streetlight luminaires would be
there simply by sitting at a central control
monitoring system based on the RF system.
“The RF network can communicate with
each other through the mesh networking
technique enabling communication among
a few nano cities would be possible. Any
level of dimming of these lights is possible
according to the setting of the daylight. All
this is controlled by majority of sensors,
which can help us 70% lighting energy.
Daylight harvesting in combination with
the dimming control can help us save extra
up to 30% lighting energy. Various kind
of customised setting is possible through
these sensors depending upon the specific
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Intelligent Street Lighting For
Smart Cities
In the final presentation, Rahul Sharma,
Deputy Manager (Tech.) at EESL, highlighted
how we can seamlessly incorporate
intelligent controls in the streetlights to be
installed under the Street Light National
Program (SLNP) across the country, which
can be replicated or further improvised if
so needed for the projected smart cities.
“So, what is a Smart City?A smart city is
a municipality that uses information and
communication technologies to increase
operational efficiency, share information
with the public and improve both the
quality of government services and citizen
welfare. Smart city concept broadly covers
five major sections energy management,
urban mobility, water management, waste
management, and e-governance/citizen
services.”
He also highlighted the challenges in the
way to creating a Smart City. “We need to
improvise the basic infrastructureat the
ground level to make it compatible for smart
technologies. New innovative models with
operational flexibility should be put in place.
For smooth progress of the projects, there
should be the provision of proper financing
without any break. Besides, there must
have been an on-going capacity building
program to keep feeding the project on
continuous basis or as and when required so
that the project should not go on a halt for
the lack of resources,” elaborated Sharma.
For smart cities, he suggested that Central
Control & Monitoring System (CCMS) could
be a possible solution both at group level
and individual level bringing transition in the
country’s lighting infrastructure. The CCMS
facilitates automatic switch off &switch on
as per programme, provides dimming of
individual or group of lights at late night
as required, establish communication of
each pole or group of poles with central
control room. Besides, recording of electrical
parameters like V, I, PF, Harmonics, etc. &
metering of existing consumption would
further allow managing or planning for
optimised usage. The system also provides
on-off status, apart from generating alert
during fault. The best part is that it can be
integrated trough Online, Mobile App, Toll-
Free Number for complaints registration for
an automated future.”
Conclusion:
The way industry is prepping to incorporate
the intelligence in lighting, it is aptly
imperative that the country’s lighting system
is on the verge of a revamp due for so long.
All the stakeholders are seemingly happy
to embrace the change indicating that the
intelligent lighting design is in the air across
the lighting fraternity of the country, and
soon the much-hyped high-tech lighting
system would be seen functional in India.
In short, the conference was a big success
with quite a few takeaways for each of the
200 attendees who came to listen to the
industry experts through their respective
lectures/presentations followed by
demonstration of the technologies - both
indoors and outdoors, got something or the
other for themselves. Elcoma thanked all the
delegates and sponsors for their support
without which it would not have been such
a success.
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GUEST COLUMN
LED Streetlights
Management Architecture:
Introduction:
Energy Efficiency is appropriately considered today as the 5th Fuel to
serve our increasing energy requirement. Energy efficiency has today
become the largest energy source. The Key Economic & Social Driver
for “SMART GRID” Initiatives Globally is nothing but “Energy Efficiency”.
India has developed various programs focused towards supply side
management such as RAPDRP, feeder segregation programs, smart
billing systems, etc. which have helped the power sector on a whole.
However, keeping in line with the increased demand requirements in
a fast paced economy, there is an impending need to focus on the
demand side aspect of the value chain in order to realize the true
benefits of a smart and integrated grid.
Governments worldwide are mandating improved Energy Efficiency,
requiring an investment in the new Smart grid and Smart Energy
Management Structure. The goal is to create a smart grid that will
change the way power is deployed for sustainable energy around the
world. The efforts in India towards making a SMART GRID a distinct
reality in the near future have gathered pace with the development of
a dedicated SMART GRID Task Force under the Ministry of Power with
the clear objective of developing ways and policies for adoption of
innovative technologies that can be integrated into the existing grid.
And, that is why, a new Breed of SMART METERS, Smart Appliances,
Smart Sensors & Smart Interfacing & Communication Devices are
evolving to enable utilities, organizations & consumers to Measure,
Monitor, Audit & Control their Energy Consumption Patterns and devise
their respective Energy Conservation/ Efficiency Strategies. These
new innovative technologies & devices can be leveraged to design &
develop a wide variety of new Products, systems and solutions for Cost
Effective & Efficient Energy Monitoring & Measurement applications.
Background to Municipal Lighting
Municipalities (Also called Urban Local Bodies-ULB)share about
10% of total electricity consumed in cities in India. It is estimated
that the electricity bills are as high as 60% of the total expenditure
of municipalities. Various studies and estimates by BEE, TERI, CII,
ECLEI, USAID, etc. indicate that it is possible to improve the energy
efficiency by at least 20 to 25%. A large number cities (over 4000),
the growing urban population (28% in 2001 expected to grow to
38% by 2026), ever growing deficit for electricity and the whopping
energy bills compel initiatives to reduce energy consumption. These
initiatives thus can reduce energy bills and have an impact on the
fiscal situation of municipal bodies.
Electricity consumption in municipal sector is increasing steadily over
the last few years. Demand Side Management can be an effective
mean to address growing gap between power supply and demand.
The goal of energy management must be on provision of services
like drinking water & street lights with the least cost and least
environmental effect.
During the process of audit of various municipalities, it was
noted that over 50 different types of fixtures with varying energy
consumption exist in municipalities. There is greater need for
rationalization of fixtures in the Street-lighting area. Globally, this
context has been adopted by various countries. Not only this will add
to energy savings, but will also bring down inventory carrying costs
at the municipalities.
With the Smart cities concept emerging across the country, there is
a greater need for bringing greater standardization in the context of
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Kindling Smart City Concepts with Street lighting
Electric power is a fundamental utility in modern society. The figure 1
below indicates existing power system of today based on conventional
and simplistic technology that was mainly developed for one-way
power flows from large power plants to generally passive customers at
the receiving end of the network.
Besides the obvious electricity usage costs, operating a streetlight
network requires several other expenses like buying new lamps,
inventory management, lamp failure due to poor power quality,
aging, maintenance of operation staff, etc.
• Improper energy metering
• No seasonal adjustment
• Poor power quality input
• No check on power thefts
• Ineffective monitoring and control
The Indian street lighting network is a vast subject, which offers
huge scope for optimization through technology intervention.
While the Energy Efficiency Retrofits using optimal solution such
as LED, sensors, etc. and integrated solution through incorporation
of Central Monitoring and Control System (CCMS) for monitoring,
reporting analytics and tighter control of system parameters can
bring reduction in energy consumption and costs. Modern LED based
energy efficient lighting systems consume significantly less energy
which is up to 45%- 55% lower compared to the older and inefficient
systems installed in almost the entire country. The resultant energy
savings and the associated monetary savings provide a business
model that could be leveraged to get third party financing.
The CCMS leverages the strong capabilities of proven information
and communication tools to build intelligence into the way the
commercial lighting systems work. The CCMS compliments the
strategic energy conservation gains made from retrofits such as use of
LED and sensors to expedite project returns on payback as users can be
empowered to be closer to information irrespective of the nature of the
device and the way it communicates – information on how many lights
are on, which ones are out, how much energy is each light consuming
and whether the lamp lived its life as guaranteed by the manufacturer
before failing. Using this near real time information, municipalities will
not only be able to make more informed decisions, thereby enabling
the country to reduce the present energy consumption and associated
carbon emissions.
Solution Overview:
It is desired to design & develop an Integrated Comprehensive
Solution for Remote & On-Line Monitoring & Controlling Applications
viz.: Street Light Management System & Energy Management System.
The Solution must be designed in a completely Modular & ‘Unified
Architecture’. It needs to be truly a Plug-n-Play Solution that is
Technology Agnostic; be it the Communication Technologies or the
Software Operating Systems. Its design must be scalable in terms of
size of network/subscribers as well as the ever-growing communication,
sensing, monitoring & software technologies and should be vender
neutral.
The Proposed Solution is a RF (wired option with RS485 as fall back)
Communication based solution with CLOUD based Application
Software that has a unique wireless network that works as a self-
healing and plug-n-play Network.
The Concept:
Network Architecture:
Making grids “smarter” will help to alleviate many of the challenges
that power systems are currently facing and that will occur with
increasing frequency in the future, such as variable-output renewables,
distributed generation, electric vehicles, under-investment in grid
infrastructure, and more.
Linkages of Smart Grid and Smart Cities
The Relationship between Smart Grids and Smart Cities needs
to be understood in this context: “In a smart city, energy, water,
transportation, public health and safety, and other key services
are managed in concert to support smooth operation of critical
infrastructure while providing for a clean, economic and safe
environment in which to live, work and play”. Hence, the perspective
in Infrastructure Design for any City has undergone a paradigm shift
with advent of Convergence & Networking Technologies, Solutions for
Information, Communication, Entertainment, Security & Surveillance;
which are beginning to have a profound impact on the way we look at
the buildings’ design and Town Planning.
A major disconnect which has recently become apparent is that the
technological trends in “Smart Homes”, “Smart Buildings”, “Smart
Cities” and “Smart Grid” are being considered and pursued in isolation
from each other, by the respective stake holders. While in reality, they
form a very tightly interwoven and homogenous confluence of similar
technologies being applied in different domains for a common cause of
making our planet earth “smart-n-green”.
Such a systems level approach is likely to not only enable newer and
better services, but also allow far greater synergies and cost-effective
deployments, reducing the lifecycle (total) cost of ownership of any
Infrastructure, be it the smart grid, a home, a building or even a city,
with attendant environmental benefits, including the carbon reductions.
Simply replacing the Conventional Energy Inefficient Products,
Appliances, Equipment and Machines with Latest Highly Energy Efficient
versions to improve the Energy Efficiency of any Building or Town
is a very expensive (yet necessary) approach. However, augmenting
this approach by installing an On-line Energy Monitoring and Control
System/Solution at a nominal additional cost can double the energy
savings while it can drastically reduce the Payback (RoI) Period of any
such deployment.
Integrated Approach To Smart Lighting Controls
Typically street lights consume nearly 19% of the world’s energy. The
lighting systems in India account for nearly 10% of total consumption
and constitute nearly 40% of total electricity spending in a typical
Indian municipality. Most commercial light manufacturers haven’t
leveraged technology to address the issues that plague the lighting
systems but as the cost of electricity continues to rise, it’s becoming
crucial that they do so and regulatory intervention seems to be the
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The Street Light Management Network: simple connectivity and low power. With developed Technology/
Protocol, product developers and consumers should be able to
easily and securely connect more than 250 devices into a low-
power, wireless mesh network that also includes direct Internet and
cloud access for every device.
The Data Concentrator Unit:
Data Concentrator Units or Gateways can be used for a multitude
of scenarios where the communication between Local Sensors,
Metering, Lighting or any Monitoring and Control networks and
IP network infrastructure is required. The use of standards based
interfaces for the Local and IP network connection creates the
opportunity to have universal adapters and operate the connection
with IP back-end systems such as Service Platforms or Machine-
to-Machine platforms in a standard fashion. Telecom operators
and service providers envision such back-end operations that are
enabled by Such Data Concentrators/Gateways.
High-level Overview
The DCU/Gateway must support the following features:
• Address core IP, either IPv4 or IPv6 connectivity
• IP security domain
• Configuration
• IP RPC protocol definitions
• Network Address and port Translation (NAT)/Firewall traversal
• Incorporate IP best practices using Internet Engineering Task
Force (IETF), W3C and other existing IP-based standards (SOAP, REST)
• IP terminates at the DCU/Gateway
• Provide broad Local LPRF/IP application support that can span
all profile needs (neutral and generic)
• Multiple profiles can use DCU/Gateway to connect the LPRF
networks to IP networks
• Private profiles can use standard DCU/gateway devices to
connect private LPRF network to remote applications
• Scalable, extensible
• Standard based layered architecture to enable both very low cost
and very powerful DCUs/Gateways.
The Server/Cloud Software:
Cloud is gaining popularity as means for saving cost of IT
ownership and accelerating time to market due to ready-to-
use, dynamically scalable computing infrastructure and software
services offered on cloud on pay-per-use basis. Design of software
solution for delivery as a shared service over cloud requires specific
considerations.
Cloud computing architecture refers to the components and
subcomponents required for cloud computing. These components
typically consist of a front-end platform (fat client, thin client,
mobile device), back end platforms (servers, storage), a cloud based
delivery, and a network (Internet, Intranet, Intercloud). Combined,
these components make up cloud computing architecture.
A cloud-oriented architecture (COA) is a conceptual model
encompassing all elements in a cloud environment. In information
technology, architecture refers to the overall structure of an
information system and the interrelationships of entities that make
up that system.
The development of a global cloud-oriented architecture is an
essential building block of the Internet of Things, in which anything
that can be identified – including people, coffee machines, park
benches and just about any other random item you can think of
– can be tagged and connected through the Internet or a similar
wide-area network (WAN).
The Architecture of the Server Software has to be very powerful,
highly flexible and scalable, layered, Secure, OS agnostic and user
friendly. It must be developed using the Global best practices and
Standard Architectures, Interfaces and Frameworks. The Software
STREET LIGHT + ENERGY MANAGEMENT NETWORK:
The illustrations above clearly demonstrate that a unified scalable
Network Architecture is quite feasible with forward and pro-active
thinking and planning.
The System Requirements:
As illustrated above, the complete solution has three essential
components:
• The Communication Module of the Meter Streetlight
• The Data Concentrator Unit (DCU)
• The Server/Cloud Software
To arrive at the most suitable architecture and specifications for each
component of the Solution Framework, it is imperative to first list
out the requirements from each block of the system. Given below are
some of the essential expectations from each:
The Communication Module:
• Simple for developers to use
• Always secure
• Power-efficient
• An open protocol that carries IPv6 natively
• Based on a robust mesh network with no single point of failure
• Runs over standard 802.15.4 radios
• Designed to support a wide variety of products.
It must address the need for a new and better way to connect
products in any Network, be it for the homes, buildings, grids, cities
rather any smart infrastructure applications. Must be built on open
standards and IPv6 technology with 6LoWPAN as its foundation, it
must offer technological advantages over other wireless standards
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Architecture must take cognizance of the various Reference Models
in practice and be based on the relevant Reference Models. To
ensure user access from multiple access nodes like Desktops,
Mobiles & Tablets etc. the architecture must follow the Web
Paradigm.
Way Forward
Since, most of the government departments and municipal bodies
will have more or less the same lighting installation with more
or less similar usage patterns, a Singular and unified approach
to energy management will be best way forward. This model
can be a revolving fund model, wherein the energy saved in the
street lighting system will be like an annuity, which is recoverable
from the saving itself. It is recommended that a singular model
for CCMS incorporating available electronics technology be
incorporated in ensuring that no biasness occurs in the selection of
the appropriate technology during the process of implementation.
In the overall context of management of the streetlight across
the country, Retrofitting the entire conventional street lights with
LEDs has the potential to save about 50% of energy amounting to
approximately 4300 million KWh annually at the national level. It
is also possible to optimize the operational performance leading
to additional savings through twilight switching controls, dimming
and voltage optimization. This usually leads to an additional
15-20% of savings over and above the savings achieved by lamp
replacement. The total opportunity of energy savings could, at
the national level, increase from 4300 million KWh to about 5000
million KWh annually. Taking the cost of power to be Rs. 5 per
KWh, the annual cost savings at the national level would be Rs.
2,500 crores.
Dr. Sandeep Garg
B. Tech (Mechanical), MBA (XLRI),
PhD (AMU)
Fellow - Institution of Engineers
Fellow - Institution of Lighting
Engineers
About the Author
Dr. Sandeep Garg has worked as the
President of India Electronics and
Semiconductor Association in August,
2017, and brings with him over 29 years
of Industry Experience in the area of
Policy Formation and Implementation.
His varied experience across
government, public & private sectors
and covering issues related to polices,
financing, and program implementation
has earned him numerous accolades &
rewards. His work has been recognised
at the national level and was awarded
NDTV Green Award in 2010.
Dr. Garg has been instrumental in
Standardisation activity in the country,
especially in setting up of the National Labeling Program for Appliances
(Star Labeling) as well as Industrial Efficiency benchmarking (PAT-
Perform Achieve and Trade). He is credited with the National Standard
for LEDs in BIS and was actively engaged in the Standardisation
activities of the LED modules and products. He is the convener of the
Smart City Standardisation Committee. He has contributed for setting
up over 43 National Standards and has been a part of Various National
Committees.
In addition, he has also contributed to the Integrated Energy Policy
of GOI as well as on public procurement policies. He has been
instrumental to the labeling program for 14 products under National
Energy Labeling Program and has published over 72 papers. He has
travelled globally to represent India in various issues on Climate
Change, Mitigation and Adaptation.

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The Indian lighting industry recognises the need of skilled workforce,
when SLNP reported 30% failure in its initial stage of LED streetlight
installation. This gave birth to the genesis of streetlight training
program with EESL. To know more about the training program, its
progress, and future course of action, we met Krishan Sujan, COO,
MLS, who is also the Training Program Coordinator, Elcoma. Edited
excerpts of the conversation are here to follow:
INTERVIEW
Skilling
The Lighting Industry
Where did the idea come from?
The art of instilling the skills started a couple
of years back when the Central government
flagged off its quite ambitious Streetlight
National Programme (SLNP) in 2016. The
target set was to install/replace more than
30 million streetlights by the year 2019
across the length and breadth of the country.
Following which, some very successful pilot
programmes were carried out.
How many technicians have been
trained?
We have trained over 700 technician/
field personnel for EESL in Street Light
National Program (SLNP) across India
during the past one year. And to train these
many technicians, till date around 30 such
programs have been conducted in various
cities across country. All these technicians
are equipped with the special skills needed
to install the high-tech LED streetlights.
We have also conducted health and safety
programs for EESL and industry personnel.
When did the industry recognise
the need of training?
In a survey conducted by Elcoma members,
it was found out that during the retrofitting/
installation of the LED streetlights under
the SLNP, proper and recommended
installation & maintenance processes were
not necessarily followed in line with the
guidelines issued. This led to some field level
failures and in some cases even replacement
of the newly deployed streetlights.
Why did this failure happen?
This could happen because most of the
streetlight installations were carried out by
technicians / field workers / electricians who
were experienced in traditional streetlights.
They weren’t properly trained for this special
project. It was also marked that quite a few
technicians employed/hired for the job were
not even aware of the proper procedures
involved in deployment of LED streetlights.
As a result, failures were inevitable.
Krishan Sujan, COO, MLS
Training Program Coordinator, Elcoma
“Moreover, workers’ safety was also an
issue as some mishaps were reported in the
meantime.”
What made you people to impart
training?
In order to ensure fail-proof installation and
maintenance of the LED streetlights, it was
finally decided to impart formal training
to the streetlight technicians. EESL then
requested ELCOMA as an industry body

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to enable, execute and manage a training
and assessment program to produce well-
equipped and properly trained, certified
Streetlight Technicians. However, the
responsibility was not at all easy as this is a
massive exercise covering the entire length
and breadth of the country where hundreds
of technicians, project workers, supervisors
and other personnel are required to be
trained & skilled.
Apart from this, which all programs
are there?
Besides LED Streetlights, ELCOMA has
been offering various other technical
skill development training programs for
government and industry for products and
services in lighting and electrical appliances
domains. Currently, it offers technical
training programs for LED Streetlights,
Solar Streetlights, Domestic Electrician,
Health & Safety and Refrigeration & Air
Conditioning. All these programs have been
developed along with Power Sector Skills
Council (PSSC) and Electronic Sector Skills
Council (ESSCI), of course, based on National
Occupation Standards (NOS) of National
Skills Development Council (NSDC).
What would be the next in the
training portfolio?
The next push for growth in the Industry is
going to focus on solar based installations
and intelligent lighting for which ELCOMA
has already progressed towards design
and development of training programs
specifically targeted at imparting training on
solar streetlight installation and maintenance
along with smart lighting & CCMS, and
intelligent lighting design. ELCOMA/NITS
have already published three training guides
for candidates attending these programs.
In case, anyone is interested in any of these
courses, can get in touch with the concerned
person by writing to info@nits.org.in.
What all comes under the Training
Programme?
ELCOMA and EESL jointly created a training
program for Streetlight Technicians covering
Installation, Operations and Maintenance
of the LED Streetlights in addition to
Safety Practices during field work. The
programme has been designed to provide
classroom and practical hands-on training
to streetlight technicians, who after the
successful completion of the course in
due time, are issued Certificates jointly by
ELCOMA and EESL.
Who provide the training? What
about the program?
While the training is provided by ELCOMA
certified trainers, the training programme
is based on Qualifications Packs of National
Occupational Standards (NOS), wherein
the curriculum/course has been approved
by EESL, ELCOMA and Power Sector Skills
Council. To execute the programme and
impart training, ELCOMA has appointed
National Institute for Technical Skills (NITS),
which is a PSSC-certified training partner.
NITS has been the authorised training
partner to offer various training programs
designed by ELCOMA. Under the supervision
of ELCOMA, NITS is being mentored by
Industry to nourish the skill of people
working in lighting industry
while India is
going through
complete
transformation
when it comes
to lighting
infrastructure,
we lack the
needed skills to
handle this latest
technology, on
the field level.

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EVENT
ASEAN’s Largest
International Exhibition
on LED Products &
Technology: To Welcome
More Than 300 Brands
An Outstanding Platform to unveil
immense opportunities and enhance
your business by networking with
Industry Professionals
LED Expo Thailand 2018, ASEAN’S largest international
exhibition on LED products and technology, will be
held from May 10-12, 2018 at the Challenger 1, IMPACT
Exhibition Center, Bangkok, Thailand. The Show will
attract around 15,000 visitors from across 53 countries.
With a record-breaking number of exhibitors (around
300), the Expo continues to serve as an ideal platform
for global buyers and exhibitors to exchange views on
LED and Lighting trends.
The latest developments can be seen in the forthcoming
edition of LED Expo Thailand which will be beneficial in
upgrading the knowledge about current shape of LED
technology & market. The Expo has been designed to
demonstrate FUTURE OF LED for a SMART LIVING.
The highlights of the show defining FUTURE OF LED for
a SMART LIVING are:
SOLAR ZONE
This specific zone would be highlighting high-
performance Solar LED products, services and
technology for housing, commercial and industrial
sectors to induce huge saving on electricity, besides
encouraging the usage of renewable energy.
DEALERS AND DISTRIBUTORS ZONE /
BUSINESS MATCHING
A specialized business matching program strictly
10-12
MAY, 2018
CHALLENGER 1
IMPACT EXHIBITION &
CONVENTION CENTER
BANGKOK, THAILAND

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for distributors and manufacturers, our
dedicated buyer team will source out “wish
list” of manufacturers and distributors to be
pre-matched.
LoT (LED OF THINGS)
It is aimed at bringing forth innovations
taking place in LED signage system with
sound and light effects to keep the visitors
engaged.
LED CAFÉ
A great resting place for all trade visitors
after a long walk in the hall, LED Café
will serve a variety of refreshments and
mouth-watering delicacies. The café will be
decorated with creative LED lighting.
LIGHTING & ENERGY SAVING
CONSULTATION CENTRE
This would facilitate a free discussion
between trade visitors and industry
professionals for their current and future
business project to save the cost and use
suitable products.
THAILAND LED SUMMIT
Steered by the committee of experts, the
conference attracts high-powered keynotes
and serves stimulating discussions in an
open environment. The topics will cover the
trends in LED lighting technology, lighting
standard, government support policies and
design solution.
INTERNATIONAL LED SUMMIT
International conference on LED and
lighting technology is aimed at bringing the
opportunities today, besides defining future
trends covering important aspects like smart
lighting, urban development, LoT and latest
innovations in exterior and interior spaces.
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN VILLAGE
This special village would showcase amazing
works of famous architects and designers
besides displaying student projects in
Thailand to increase the efficiency of every
building.
BUYER PROGRAM
Created specifically to facilitate business
matching at the show, the Buyer Program is
an effective platform for the top qualified
buyers from the procurement, purchasing
and supply chain management divisions
within the energy efficiency, LED as well as
electronic sectors to meet with our exhibitors
on a pre-scheduled, one-on-one basis.
Benefits of VIP Buyer Program:
• Complimentary 1-2 night accommodation
at Ibis IMPACT during 10-12 May 2018
• Access to the Business Matching Zone
(complimentary refreshments and WiFi)
• Free Copy of Show Directory
• Screening and selection will be done based
on the eligibility criteria.
• A list of matched exhibitors will be
provided, including company profiles and
the latest products / materials / machinery
• Upon confirmation, business matching
meetings will be scheduled to make your trip
more smooth and efficient
Apart from thematic zone, a series of
seminars, forums and networking activities
will take place during three days to shed
light on different hot topics in lighting
industry. A seminar themed “iLIGHT
Connect: International LED Summit” will
be staged featuring representatives from
the global LED Industry to discuss how this
revolutionary concept reshape and connect
our life.
iLIGHT CONNECT: INTERNATIONAL
LED SUMMIT
The Summit will focus on case studies,
discussions over the latest trends,
innovations and technology in both interior
& exterior rifts. A panel discussion will hoist
the influences and issues that designers,
owners & operators come across when it
comes to implementing the LED technology.
Discrete speakers will throw some light on
the opportunities that LED provide us today
which we did not have in past. The main
focus will be on ‘Future of LED’ along with
other contemporary issues such as smart
lighting & loT. All these are grouped under
four separate heads to be addressed under
four different sessions:
• The Future of Lighting - and Where Are We
Now?
• Smart Lighting - Opportunities and
Constraints
• Lighting Festivals - Beyond the Wow Factor
• City Light - Planning a Night-time Economy
iLIGHT CONNECT: EDUCATIONAL
WORKSHOP
The idea behind this workshop is to create
awareness about the lighting design process
among the participants to enable them
construct their own lighting installations.
Participants will choose if they wish to
learn architectural or landscape lighting
techniques:-
• Architectural Lighting: Groups have the
choice of building facade or public space
• Landscape Lighting: Groups have the
choice of trees, vegetation, pathways or
lawn area within the existing landscape
environment
Thailand: A Gateway to Opportunities in
ASEAN Region!
• Emerging Country: Thailand is the World’s
51st largest country by area, 20th largest
country by population and the 32nd largest
country in the world by economic size.
• Hub of ASEAN: With strategic location
among ASEAN, it is easy to access to the
Greater Mekong sub-region (GMS). Hence
Thailand has high potential to be the
regional logistics hub.
• Growing Economy: The Economic
Intelligence centre of the SIAM Commercial
BANK (SCB) has predicted that Thailand’s
economy is expected to expand further in
2018, to around 3.5 percent.
• Energy Trend: Thailand is moving full steam
ahead towards the use of LED lighting. In

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2016, the turnover in the LED bulb market
has increased 33% with a total market value
of the THB 4,960 million.
• Policy Support: Thailand has long been
a proponent of free & fair trade and its
attractiveness as a production base for
leading international companies is enhanced
by a number of free trade agreements.
ABOUT THE ORGANISERS:
MEX Exhibitions Pvt. Ltd. is an
international exhibition company with a
strong presence of over four decades in
the advertising industry, over 20 years
in publishing & 15 years in exhibitions.
The company has produced more than
100 market-leading trade exhibitions for
various segments in addition to publishing
various magazines & advertising
trade directories of repute. Successful
exhibitions are conducted all over India,
Dubai, Singapore, Thailand and now in
Africa.
IMPACT Exhibition Management Co.,
Ltd. is the leading exhibition organiser in
Thailand. IMPACT organises and manages
professional trade and public exhibitions,
conferences, meetings and training,
working hand-in-hand with international
trade associations, organisers and
corporations across a broad spectrum of
industries. IMPACT creates effective market
platforms and offers a comprehensive
range of turnkey event management
solutions ranging from market research,
exhibition and visitor promotion and
sales, advertising and promotion, public
relations, the operation to on-site
logistic management for exhibitions and
conferences of all sizes and industries.
It also specialises in business matching
programs.

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FEATURE
Innovations Brim at
The World’s Largest Lighting
Lighting giants from world
over presented their latest
best in the field of lighting,
bringing forth a variety of
products and solutions
besides unfolding a wide
range of new applications.
A central focus in the recently concluded Light + Building 2018
remains at the presentation of the latest solution and design trends in
the international lighting market reflecting the exhibitors’ high levels of
expertise in these fields. Altogether, some 1,650 companies exhibited
with their broad spectrum of lighting products and services for both
residential and non-residential segments.
Well-known brands, such as Philips, Osram, Artemide, iGuzzini, Zumtobel,
Lumileds, Bega, Brand van Egmont, Erco, Fagerhult Group, Faustig,
Flos, Ingo Maurer, LG, Louis Poulsen, Luceplan, Martinelli Luc, Nimbus,
Nordeon Group, Occhio, Samsung, Schréder, Tobias Grau, Trilux, Vibia
Lighting, and Zero, all put their latest best on display at Frankfurt Lighting
Exhibition. Here are a few select ones for your review:
Philips Lighting Announces LiFi IoT platform
The Dutch technology subsidiary and world’s largest lighting firm, Philips
Lighting, announced its break into the LiFi market during the Light
+Building trade show in Frankfurt. The firm has launched an Internet of
Things (IoT) platform and connected lighting system, dubbed Interact.
LiFi technology involves LEDs and sensors that transmit data wirelessly to
computers and tablets through light waves. The system offers decorative
LED lights and an outdoor range to its smart lighting cannon, as well as
services beyond singular customers – Interact City, Interact Landmark,
Interact Office, Interact Retail, and Interact Sports.
As the lighting company for the Internet of Things, Philips Lighting is the
first major global lighting company to LiFi-enable luminaires from its
existing office lighting portfolio. LiFi is a two-way, high-speed wireless
technology similar to WiFi but uses light waves instead of radio waves to
transmit data in a highly secure way. Philips Lighting’s office luminaires
enabled with LiFi technology provide a broadband connection with
a speed of 30 Mb per second (Mb/s), without compromising lighting
quality. At 30Mb/s a user can simultaneously stream several HD-quality
videos while conducting video calls. Icade, the French real estate
investment company, is piloting the ground-breaking technology in its
smart office in La Defense, Paris.
LG Display Showcases Luflex OLED Lighting Products
LG Display, unveiled various innovative OLED lighting products,
emphasising the limitless flexibility and infinite inspiration that they offer.
LG Display’s Luflex OLED light panels, while enabling slim and unique
designs with a thin and flexible form factor, provide soft and natural light
with less blue light, thus reducing eye fatigue. Luflex is a portmanteau of
the Latin word lux, which means light, and the English word flex, which
not only refers to flexibility in physical form but also in application. Most
notably, Luflex panels can be twisted and rolled up to a 30mm radius of
curvature without compromising any functionality. The panels’ thickness
of 0.41mm puts them in a league of their own when compared with
traditional light sources, and they also offer design potential that is sure
to set fire to creative imaginations.
LG Display introduced its Crystal Sound OLED (CSO) Lights by extending
the use of its CSO technology used for its TV panels to OLED light panels
for the first time in the world. The paper-thin OLED light panel itself
serves as a speaker diaphragm with the sound emanating directly from
the panel which is vibrated by exciters attached to the back. A flexible,
natural lighting installation that also serves as a speaker not only delivers
futuristic design and natural illumination, but also premium sound --
hence the name. This new technology is expected to be widely used in
AI-integrated mood lamps and ceiling lamps that will be able to talk with
you as well as light up your life.

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WiZ Unveils Professional Range ‘WiZ Pro’ Smart Lighting
WiZ Connected Lighting, one of the most innovative and advanced smart
lighting systems available, unveiled its new WiZ Pro combined hardware
and software solutions dedicated to residential and commercial lighting.
With WiZ Pro’s Wi-Fi connectivity, thousands of lights within a building
can now be networked through the WiZ Pro management software
allowing building and facility managers to monitor energy consumption,
organize preventive maintenance and receive customised feedback. WiZ
ecosystems, together with commercial lighting partners, provide robust,
innovative, easy-to-manage solutions for professionals.
The WiZ Pro range combines a new series of lamps with professional-
grade colour rendering index (CRI), up to 95—far greater than most other
connected LED lighting available today. New retro-connectors now make
it possible to integrate legacy light points into the WiZ ecosystem where
they can be controlled and monitored, whether fluorescent, halogen or
LED. In addition, Bluetooth technology and beaconing capability enables
all products to communicate with enabled accessories, overcoming a
primary challenge of commercial lighting.
The WiZ Pro software platform addresses many building management
needs with a minimal impact to infrastructure and IT resources and
provides a lightweight and flexible software platform to control and
monitor lighting. Controlling hundreds of Wi-Fi connections in multiple
rooms and on multiple floors, the use of programmed lights and
managing associated Bluetooth low-energy devices becomes trivially
easy. Preventive maintenance alerts and action lists ensure high-quality
management of all lighting elements.
Delta Premiered Integrated Building Automation with an
IoT-Concept Lighting Solution
Delta, a global leader in power and thermal management solutions,
has rolled out its integrated building automation and new IoT-concept
lighting solutions of integrated services. Apart from its versatile solutions
for office, commercial, industrial, and street lighting, Delta also offers
an advanced solution that integrates its lighting products, security &
surveillance equipment, building control systems, and related products.
Delta´s latest solutions provide flexibility and feasibility for upgrading
intelligent buildings that was once difficult to achieve for so many
different market segments.
Delta’s lighting control system is empowered with a wireless
communication capability, which is advanced enough to enable
Bluetooth 5 Mesh Networking (many-to-many device communications)
with a dedicated communications module applying DALI-compliant
functionality. This allows users to fully convert conventional lighting
scenarios into ready-to-use lighting options available either on a mobile
APP or on a voice control system, reducing the hassle of modifying
any original lighting fixtures. This innovative solution solves substantial
problems that often arise when adapting a conventional lighting control
system to newer technologies, such as difficult integration as well as high
costs.
Delta also put forth its much-touted Astra series of wall washers, namely
ultra-wide-angle floodlights using asymmetric optics technology for
large-scale outdoor billboards and indoor commercial lighting. Astra’s
hallmark characteristics of ultra-wide-angle luminosity enable it to emit
light with an illumination range of up to three times the width of any
conventional floodlights, and yet with a more uniform luminance.
Carclo Optics Comes up with its High Bay Strip Optics
Carclo Optics released a new high bay product into their range of strip
optics. The High Bay Strip Optic can be installed up to 12 metres high
and has been designed to optimise both floor and shelving illumination.
Ideal for warehouse and other high bay applications, the new strip optic
is available in 600mm and 1200mm lengths. Produced using optical
grade PC, the new strip optic has a high impact resistance.

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Osram Unveils Prototype Oslon Pure 1010 Chip-Scale
Package LED
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany unveiled
the prototype of the Oslon Pure 1010 LED, to be used as spotlights
for retail lighting (where exceptionally compact LEDs with high light
output are needed to bathe articles on display in an attractive light).
The scalability of the chip-scale package (CSP) LED enables flexibility in
putting together individual lighting solutions. According to the company,
with typical luminous flux of 100lm at a drive current of 350mA and a
colour temperature of 3000K, the prototype almost perfectly follows
Lambert’s law and achieves a flux density of 237lm/m² when operating
at 1000mA. The achieved luminance is then much higher for the same
component size. This property is useful particularly if the new LED is used
for illuminating merchandise in retail outlets.
Because of its compact 1.0mm x 1.0mm x 0.25mm dimensions, the Oslon
Pure 1010 gives lighting designers a high degree of flexibility. The new
LED comes without a primary lens, and the reduction in height is due to
the chip-scale package. The light-emitting surface is contacted not in the
usual way (with a bond wire from above) but within the component itself,
without the need for bond wires. These properties, together with the
small dimensions, enable multiple LEDs to be placed very close together
in a small space. Warm-white and cold-white LEDs can be combined,
so the number of individual LEDs, their arrangement and the relative
proportions of warm-white and cold-white LEDs can be tailored to meet
specific customer requirements.
If applications call for highly concentrated spotlighting, appropriate
secondary optics can simply be added. Due to the compact dimensions
and directional emission of the Oslon Pure, the secondary optics can also
be very small, which in turn means that the overall solution will save even
more space and cost. In the CRI-80 version, the LED will be available as
early as May. A CRI-90 version will then follow in fall 2018.
Zumtobel Group Services Presents Light as the
Infrastructure of IoT
Apart from highlighting tailored project solutions and specific-use cases
to underline the benefits of connected and intelligent lighting solutions,
ZGS presented light as the infrastructure for the Internet of Things (IoT).
The group showcased its software-based digital services, detailing how
sensors and data processors enable data from activity within the building
or environment to be captured, processed and translated into valuable
business intelligence. Because luminaires are everywhere that people are,
lighting provides the perfect infrastructure for the Internet of Things. By
networking and communicating between devices, businesses can gain
valuable real-time insights into energy consumption as well as the way
space is populated and utilised. In retail, brands can improve customer
loyalty and increase sales through lighting-driven real-time marketing.
Lumileds Displays its CoB Core Range
Dimming technology is a critical component in luminaire design. With
this in mind, longtime GRE Alpha partner, Lumileds showcased its fourth
generation of chip-on-board (CoB) LEDs, the LUXEON CoB Core Range
which leads the market in efficacy and quality of light. The product
incorporates GRE Alpha’s warm dimming modules to provide a smooth
dim-to-warm effect. With the new LUXEON CoB Core Range, Lumileds
sets a new standard with 5% greater efficacy than the closest alternatives.
The major applications include use in spotlights and downlights.
GRE Alpha is a long-term reliable partner with Lumileds. GRE Alpha
dimmers offer some distinct advantages besides getting easily linked with
Lumileds constant current COB LED chipsets. Plug-and-play dimming
modules create eye-catching, color temperature changing effects without
colour distortion. Apart from that GRE’s dimming module can provide
extremely low output ripple current which creates the best flicker control.

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iGuzzini Puts Forth a Range of Lighting Solution
The designer lights giant, iGuzzini showcased a range of its designer wall-
washers lighting solutions. First developed as a custom product, Lander
is a bollard designed by architect Renzo Piano for the park of the Stavros
Niarchos Foundation in Athens. This product is characterised by a specific
light emission focused on the paths, with road (ST1) and asymmetrical
optics. The wall washer version has an optical compartment aligned with
the body of the product resulting in exceptional vertical lighting. The
range also includes an applique version for direct or direct/ indirect light
emission, with options of more comfortable or more powerful optics.
Walky, winner of the Design Plus award, is an extraordinary collection of
miniaturised devices starting from 45mm in height, and comes in round,
square and rectangular shapes in two options of flush and surface-
mounted. Walky was born from the idea that iGuzzini’s excellent vertical
lighting skills could be transferred into horizontal applications. Walky’s
new optic distributes perfect horizontal light: precise, pure and shadow
free cones near the wall, and perfectly uniform light along the entire
surface in question.
Radiant Lighting Showcases its 3D LED Flex 100 IP66 and
Centura
Radiant Architectural Lighting is set to make a splash with its 3D LED
Flex 100 IP66 7 Centura. Building on the commercial success of the
IP20 version, which was originally created for Zaha Hadid Architects’
Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku, Radiant has introduced an IP66 version of
the 3D LED Flex 100. The exterior linear lighting system is designed for
applications with non-linear lit surfaces, such as columns, domes and
curved facades. Able to follow curved surfaces and facades, it is perfect
for direct and indirect architectural lighting applications, including coves
and wall washing or grazing. It comes with a unique articulated joint
system which offers three-dimensional flexibility as well as consistency
with equally spaced LED’s to ensure uniformity when creating the perfect
lighting solution. The system provides up to 7,000 lumens per mtr
depending on optics, colour temperature and CRI.
Centura is a flexible LED interior linear lighting system, designed to make
complex designs simple. An innovative design offers the flexibility to
follow curved surfaces, encapsulate columns and domes, and to make
irregular shaped pendants. Available in uplight and downlight solutions,
surface mounted or suspended, and with lumen outputs of up to 5,000
lumens per metre, Centura is ideal for a range of application areas
including architectural, hospitality, leisure and retail. It offers complete
flexibility, adjustability onsite and a choice of colour options ensuring
there is a solution for any lighting challenges. This makes it ideal for a
wide range of applications, including hospitality, leisure and retail.
Lucite International Presents Perspex® - Intelligent
Acrylic for LED Lighting
Lucite International presented its renowned brand Perspex® acrylic,
the perfect partner for LEDs in lighting. Giving live demonstration of its
Perspex® Light i.e. Perspex® Edge and Perspex® Diffuse products on
specialised light boxes to lighting manufacturers and design engineers,
the acrylic specialist came up with its latest ‘Light’ range, the best-in-class
diffuser and light guide panel (LGP) products.
Perspex® acrylic is a natural partner to LEDs and offers unique
advantages, enhancing LED performance in lighting units. The Perspex®
R&D team has developed Perspex® Edge, the latest in light guide panel
technology, especially developed for edge illumination, offering slim
panel designs and cost efficiencies. Each of the four available grades is
individually optimised for specific panel widths.

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