Signify Academy: Light that connects [podcasts]

In this podcast series, we’ve been talking about the many different technical aspects of connected lighting, how and where it can be applied, and the benefits to people, businesses and the planet, mostly from a manufacturer’s or provider’s perspective.
What is the perspective of a market leader?
What are the main challenges and opportunities customers are facing today?
What do you tell customers when they don’t understand new technologies and standards, or when they don’t understand how to proceed toward fulfilling their ambitions or mandates?

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The Custom Dashboard lets you tailor your smart lighting solutions – and your dashboard itself – to your unique needs. It gives you precision control over your lighting and energy, whether you’re managing a building, street, highway, or city. An update on the existing dashboard, the Custom Dashboard is integrated with a range of additional benefits.

As before, you can view detailed energy, fault, and occupancy data across individual areas or your whole operation, but now you can also combine areas, set up needs-sp...

BrightSites is an innovative broadband-enabled lighting solution developed by Signify, transforming existing street lighting infrastructure into a high-speed connectivity network. By replacing existing luminaires with LED broadband-enabled ones, cities can provide gigabit-speed internet access via streetlights—without requiring extensive fiber trenching.  Listen and learn more.

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Thomas Barber joins us today to talk about what Color Kinetics is and how Color Kinetics dynamic LED luminaires can participate in connected systems. What does a pure Color Kinetics connected system look like?
How do Color Kinetics luminaires and controls participate in Interact connected lighting systems, and what changes or advancements have been made to Color Kinetics products as a result?

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What does the global tunnel lighting situation look like today and what are the main challenges and opportunities?
What are some of the specific problems related to lighting tunnels that proper lighting controls can solve?

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Joining us for the Light that connects podcast series today is Daniel Walker, Global Product Manager for Philips Dynalite.
Daniel joins us today to talk about the Dynalite lighting controls and the value they bring to different business segments, and how Dynalite fits into the range of connected lighting solutions offered by Signify.

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In this episode of the Light that connects podcast series, I‘m happy to welcome Brian Ellsworth, Specification Sales at LINX Lighting + Controls, formerly Forman & Associates before their recent merger with Western Lighting + Controls. Brian joins us to talk about the work that Forman & Associates has done as a certified system integrator with Signify, and exciting new developments in the world of lighting systems specification and design.

By retrofitting old street lights instead of replacing them, cities reduce carbon emissions while working toward achieving sustainability goals. Signify expert Yong Liang Eng talks about the impact of switching all street lights worldwide to LED 👉 #LightThatConnects

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Create a safer, more productive working environment for your workers with Interact connected lighting. Manage your lighting system assets, monitor performance and energy usage, and plan preventive maintenance to ensure system uptime and enhance workplace safely. Optimize stocking and order picking with detailed occupancy and activity data. Set dimming schedules to minimize lighting usage in unoccupied areas, moving you closer to your sustainability goals.

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Exciting innovations in lighting systems are revolutionizing the way we interact with our environment! No longer just a source of light, these systems are now enabling incredible use cases like indoor wayfinding and asset tracking. Imagine never losing your tools or getting lost in a hospital again thanks to intelligent lighting grids.
The possibilities are endless!

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Signify’s Climate Transition Plan sets out the company’s climate strategy in line with its SBTi -validated net-zero targets:

The Plan includes initiatives and programs across the business and value chain, which include incentivizing suppliers to commit to renewable energy, electrification of the logistics fleet and further extending the use of energy-efficient LED lighting – the single biggest factor in reducing the li...

What are the latest developments within the entertainment lighting space.
How will Artificial Intelligence impact the entertainment lighting domain?

Data security and cybersecurity are often top-of-mind concerns when deploying connected systems. Is this also true in the entertainment space? What kinds of security measures are in place, and what more needs to be done?

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What is NatureConnect?
Why is NatureConnect important—who can benefit from it?
What makes NatureConnect special?
Where can NatureConnect be used?

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3D printing can remove carbon from all phases of product manufacturing, distribution, and use.
3Dprinting is good for the planet, because it can remove carbon from all phases of the product lifecycle. 
But it's also good for customers, who can design luminaires to fit their exact specs. 
Instead of structurally changing a ceiling to fit new LED luminaires, building renovators can choose the exact dimensions and lighting requirements they need with 3D printed luminaires. 

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"Europe needs a renovation revolution. We're pleased to unveil this new project, shortly after European nations spearheaded a global call to action on energy efficiency at COP28. With elections taking place across Europe in 2024, the hard work starts now. Dragging up desperately low renovation rates in Europe is critical to improving energy efficiency in the built environment. Governments and corporates must support cities, businesses, communities and citizens, to open up their toolboxes and begin a renovation revolution.”

Toby Morgan, Senior Manager, Built Environment at Climate Group

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Produce attractive and sustainable retail spaces, trigger specific consumer behaviors through zoning and light recipes, and deliver location-based offers to shoppers on their smartphones. By offering a seamless and convenient shopping experience, you’ll increase brand recognition and loyalty, enjoy repeat business, and ultimately increase footfall and profits. Have multiple locations? Not a problem. Interact can centrally manage the lighting in one site or multiple sites—it’s completely up to you.
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Where do you see going on in office spaces in 2024 and what is the role of lighting?
Does lighting brings happiness to tenants and employees as well as to the business and the building owner?

Tune in and listen to Peter Duine and learn more about how healthy and green buildings attract the most valuable tenants.

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Gerben van der Lugt, the global business leader for indoor location services at Signify will talk about the technologies behind and the benefits of continuously locating people and objects within retail environments and other interior spaces.
How does an indoor positioning system work?
What about privacy and data security?
What are indoor location services, and how does that relate to indoor positioning systems, indoor tracking, and so on?

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How navigation apps help shoppers find products

The profit potential of self-search

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What lighting for circularity means, how we’re using it at Signify, and how it supports our sustainability ambitions and the UN strategic initiatives.

With Thomas Marinelli, Head of Sustainable Innovation and Design at Signify

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The importance of lighting across all hospital spaces, with an emphasis on research proving the effectiveness of lighting for (for example) welcome and relaxation, more alert staff overnight, fewer errors, fewer accidents/falls, shorter stays, reduced need for post-op meds

With Elina Dayanova, Global Business Director Healthcare Lighting.

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Light produces obvious and profound visual effects in us. It also produces non-obvious but equally profound non-visual effects. There are receptors in the eyes, alongside the famous rods and cones, with a direct line to the region of the brain—the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus—that regulates the human circadian rhythm.

The third non-visual photoreceptor and how lighting can support circadian health. Lighting for performance, preference, and comfort.

With Peter Duine, Global Business Director Systems & Services, Office sub-segment, Signify and moderated by Jonathan Weinert

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How connected LED is a must-have for climate action, what it can do, how cities and businesses can take advantage, what else needs to be done.  Our commitment, energy efficiency and connected lighting.
With Harry Verhaar, Head of Global Public & Government Affairs, Signify.

The articles from Signify on The Sustainability Project by Economist Impact can be found here:

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Evolution of Philips to Signify and the different inflection points along the way.
From the Edison bulb->fluorescents->LEDs for illumination->connected lighting- to IoT lighting. And what’s to come?

With Greg Nelson, Business Leader, Professional Systems & Services at Signify and moderated by Jonathan Weinert

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Fundamental descriptions/demystification of what the “connected” in connected lighting means.
Digital connectivity is also the future of lighting. But because it’s in ceilings everywhere from a hospital to a home, in streets, carparks and vehicles – lighting has a far more important role to play.

It will become the smart infrastructure behind seamless connectivity: sensing your smartphone as you enter the building; relaying information from various sensors; tracking your movement through corridors; connecting to your computer as you work; confirming you’ve left the building in an emergency.

Now lighting connectivity options and digital co...

The concept of the "Six Ages of Light" refers to a historical framework that categorizes the development and evolution of lighting technology throughout human history. Tune in and listen, learn and feel free to share.

These ages highlight significant advancements in lighting methods and technologies. 

With Mike Simpson, Lighting Application Specialist and moderated by Jonathan Weinert