Craig DiLouie

Electrical contractors consider themselves highly influential in lighting-equipment selection for both new construction and retrofit projects. That’s one key finding from the 2019 CII Lighting Trends Survey, which ELECTRICAL...

Connected lighting and the internet of things (IoT) offer exciting potential for energy and operational efficiencies, but attention must be paid to ensure these systems are safe from hackers. While the owner bears the brunt...

In 2018, the California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC) published “Daylight Harvesting for Commercial Buildings Guide,” a best practices guide to designing daylight harvesting systems. While focused on compliance with...

In May 2018, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released “Advanced Lighting Control System Performance: A Field Evaluation of Five Systems.” This report evaluated field installations of five advanced lighting control systems...

A 2017 DesignLights Consortium report analyzing performance data from more than 100 installations found that networked lighting controls produced an average 47 percent lighting energy savings. The biggest value in connected...

LED technology, connectivity, intelligence and the internet of things continue to drive change and product development in the historically staid lighting industry, where disruption has become the norm. For electrical...

Light Fidelity (Li-Fi) is a wireless communication technology that uses visible light to transmit data at very high speeds. It is another potentially transformative capability of LED lighting. According to Global Market...

The internet unlocked trillions of dollars in market value by connecting more than 10 billion computing devices for commerce, services and information. The internet of things (IoT) holds enormous promise to unlock new value...

In 2017, the International Code Council (ICC) published the 2018 version of the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC). Updated every three years, many states use the IECC as the basis for their commercial building...

Indoor horticulture represents only a tiny fraction of U.S. farmland but accounts for a disproportionately significant portion of farmland revenues. In 2017, more than 40,000 growers operated in more than 1 billion square...

In 2016, the World Green Building Council published a report, “Building the Business Case: Health, Wellbeing, and Productivity in Green Offices,” which identifies eight building features that can have a positive impact on...

Circadian lighting is a generic term used to describe lighting designs that support alignment of circadian rhythms to a day-active and night-sleeping pattern. The lighting approach offers the additional potential to increase...