Lighting controls

Posted on the: August 1, 2023

Amerlux Illuminates the Path Ahead with New Corporate Video

Reveals Enhanced Capabilities and New Collections in Powerful Visual Narrative OAKLAND, N.J. – August 1, 2023 – Amerlux, an award-winning design-and-manufacture lighting company, announced today the release of its new corporate video, which showcases how the architectural lighting giant continues to stand apart from the competition by creating comprehensive lighting[...]

Posted on the: June 20, 2022

Amerlux to Light the Way Into Building Automation at LightFair 2022

Exhibited Fixtures, Technologies Do What Others Cannot: Harmonize Every Building System with One Company OAKLAND, N.J. – Amerlux announced today that it will exhibit several new products and technologies at LightFair 2022 that will enable architects and lighting designers to do something they’ve never done before: leave their design mark on[...]

Posted on the: June 14, 2022

What Are the 5 Best Ways to Cram for LightFair 2022?

LightFair 2022 is days away. Are you ready? Whether you’re checking out new trends and products, exhibiting like we are (at Booth #1727), earning more AIA/CES credit or looking to make new connections, we have put together resources to help prep you for the multiday event in Las Vegas. Several topics will headline the conference. Themes[...]

Posted on the: June 1, 2021

How LED Lighting is Driving a Revolution: Connected Buildings

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Power Systems Design magazine. See the original post here. The “lighting revolution” is old news now. Building automation is the new bedrock-shifting event unfolding within the building world now, and it too is being spurred by advancements in LED technology and controls. The premise that lighting[...]

Posted on the: March 16, 2021

How Antimicrobial Lighting Technology Helps Create a Cleaner Hotel Environment

Your hotel is your guests’ home away from home, their remote oasis—as long as it is perceived as being clean and sanitized. Even before Covid-19 upended the hospitality industry, research shows that hotel guests are willing to pay more per stay for a clean hotel environment. About 86% of surveyed consumers say sanitation and[...]

Posted on the: March 3, 2021

The One Amazing Thing Antimicrobial Lighting Can Do That UV Can't

In California, the historic Beverly Hilton Hotel found itself in the national spotlight once more, courtesy of new cleaning personnel they hired on the spot: a three-foot-tall robot named Kennedy. His job? Shine UV light in spaces cleaned by human colleagues and ensure a new defense line against lurking, invisible infectious threats.[...]

Posted on the: February 8, 2021

4 Reasons Why DALI Is the Right Lighting Control for You

The Digital Addressable Lighting Interface (DALI) has become the industry open standard for tailoring the needs of present-day LED lighting technology, utilizing a two-way communication system that has brought digital capabilities to lighting. DALI allows interconnected drivers, ballasts, switches, sensors and controllers—regardless of differing manufacturers—to “talk” to the user, who[...]

Posted on the: December 8, 2020

5 Reasons You Should Invest in a Building Automation System

Remember the old days, just a few years back, when the lighting “revolution” everyone talked about was the transition from traditional lighting systems to LEDs? That’s old news now. There’s a new revolution unfolding within the building world now—and it too is being spurred by advancements in LED technology: Building[...]

Posted on the: November 16, 2020

Tunable Lighting: How to Improve Student Performance Like a Switch

Tunable Lighting: How to Improve Student Performance Like a Switch Picture this: A frustrated schoolteacher, struggling to get their students’ attention, turns the classroom lights off to calm her students. Later, the same teacher flickers the lights to get the class’s attention and let them know it’s time to start[...]

Posted on the: October 7, 2020

How Upgrading Your Classroom Lights Could Help You Become Teacher of the Year

The connection between learning and daylight is deep-rooted—dating back nearly a century ago. No, really. Quick history lesson: According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), daylight was the primary light source in buildings, including schools, before the 1940s. Artificial lighting caught up fast. Within 20 years, electric lighting provided[...]