Smart lighting is a foundation for any smart city. It helps cities save energy, lower costs, and reduce maintenance. In addition, smart lighting can play an important role in the areas of safety, mobility, environment and energy thereby empowering local bodies or municipal authorities. Architect-cum-Urban Planner Ashish Batra explains the benefits of smart lighting in smart cities.
The practice of lighting requires an understanding of the physical characteristics of light, how light works in space, and how it can be controlled optically and predicted and measured photometrically. Though lots of innovation happening in the field of lighting technology, lighting designing remains a neglected subject especially in India, thanks to lack of formal education programme. Renowned lighting designer and educator Anil Valia reminds us the need of architectural lighting design workshop for skill development.
“Light has that immense power and as lighting designers we have the ability to shape people’s experiences and perceptions,” avers Nivedita Sehrawat, Creative Director, Design Matrix while narrating her journey in the field of lighting. She said, “Mankind has always been fascinated with light especially because we don’t fully understand how it works.” She also talks about what it takes to successfully lighting a space.
In line with the trend towards using smart lighting solutions, more than 135 companies from across the globe are all set to showcase their state-of-the-art products at the Taiwan International Lighting Show (TILS), to be held from May 8 to 10 at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Centre in Taiwan. After visiting manufacturing facilities of some of the key participants of 2019 TILS, Subhajit Roy delves into details of what lies ahead for visitors.
In May, India will also witness the lighting industry extravaganza – LED Expo Mumbai 2019, which will run from May 9 to 11. Lighting India, being the media partner of this event, will come out with a LED-special issue which will be displayed and distributed during the event. We invite your participation in this mega issue.
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