An Introduction to Motion Sensor Controls “Smart” has recently become every marketing departments favorite word. From smart homes, smart watches, smart fridges, to smart cars; it’s almost impossible to find a consumer product that doesn’t have a “smart” offering. Many feature types fall into the broad category of “smart” but perhaps the most fundamental isRead more
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INTRODUCTION Ambient and decorative lighting consists of the following characteristics that can be utilized differently in different spaces (e.g. retail space, office space, residential space, warehouse space, etcetera.) 1. Brightness & Contrast 2. Light Color 3. Color Rendering 4. Uniformity The following article gives a brief explanation of these qualities and their application as wellRead more
By now the energy-saving benefits of LED lighting are well known. (If they are not familiar to you, see this short blog post.) What is sometimes overlooked are the other benefits an LED system can bring to a building and the activities that take place there. ENLIGHTEN recently completed a project to replace the lightingRead more
Ever since the human race has discovered fire, it has been finding new ways to light the darkness. For millennia, simply setting a stick or oil on fire was our source of light, a very inefficient one at that. In 1879, Edison filed a patent for a light source that essentially heated a tungsten elementRead more
We hear about lowering your electric bill’s kWh usage all the time, but what is a kWh, and how can you use less of them? A kWh, kilowatt-hour, is a unit used to measure how much electrical energy a building uses over a certain period of time (usually 1 billing cycle). It is analogous to milesRead more