AUSTIN, TX – The internet of things is a major theme at this year’s Design Automation Conference (DAC), and attendees at the opening keynote heard that after years of hype, IoT is finally becoming reality.
“While the implementation journey has been challenging, IoT is now more than a buzz-word – it’s real,” said Joe Costello, CEO of Enlighted. The choice of a smart lighting company to kick off the first day of the conference underlines the importance of light fixtures as a starting point for smart buildings. LED lights that are installed with room for additional sensors can accommodate nodes that will support connected climate control systems and tiny security cameras.
“Lighting is only the beginning of our mission to change the way we interact with the world around us,” according to Enlighted.
“Enlighted IoT solutions are impacting the largest asset class in the world – commercial real estate – by giving buildings a ‘sensory system’ akin to a human body, which provides endless new opportunities to improve business processes through the data it unlocks,” said Costello. “Working together, we are changing the way buildings operate, turning smart buildings into brilliant buildings.”
The Enlighted system has already been deployed by AT&T, LinkedIn, Uber, and Gensler. The company said 20% of the Fortune 100 companies have installed its technology. The system includes wireless sensors, gateways and servers as well as applications to monitor building usage, and direct cooling or heating in real time to the space where occupants are working.
The Enlighted sensors use Bluetooth to communicate with the gateways, which use Ethernet to connect to the energy management computers, which support a secure browser-based interface for managing the lighting control system.
