Recently there is a piece IoT security for smart lighting news about UL Recognizes Avi-on Labs as First Commercial Lighting Company to Achieve IoT Security Rating (prnewswire.com). UL has announced that Avi-on Labs, Inc. is the first commercial lighting company to be recognized for achieving UL’s IoT Security Rating- the Platinum level. What does that level mean ? […]
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IoT, Smart Home, Smart Lighting
Smart Home is a term refers modern homes that have electric appliance, lighting and home security, home entertainment electronic devices that can be controlled by the user remotely via a smart home mobile app. Smart Home adoption are increased significantly with the more people prefer the voice-activated assistant devices like Amazon Echo, Google Home ,
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Residential Lighting, Smart Home, Smart LightingLighting industry has started using some metrics to evaluate the human centric lighting especially in the circadian lighting application. We are going to look at two metrics today: one is Equivalent Melanopic Lux (EML) , the other is Circadian Stimulus(CS). The EML model was proposed by Lukas et al. and the CS model was developed by the
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Human Centric Lighting, WELL buildingDo you know almost every LED light bulb or fixture is flickering when powered ON? But most of the times you won’t not even noticed the flickering at all. What is flicker ? Per IEEE1789 , it says flicker is :variations in luminance over time. According to CIE17.443e-ILV, the definition of flicker is the impression
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FlickerHuman Centric Lighting (HCL) is lighting specifically designed to produce a beneficial physiological and/or psychological effect upon humans. HCL uses the artificial lighting sources to create visual environments that mimic the natural daylight that drives and interfere with the human body’s daily cycle. All humans have an “inner clock” that called “Circadian Rhythm”. The circadian
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Circadian Rhythm, Human Centric LightingThere are some very elegant lighting solutions -flat panel light fixtures for the surface mounting retrofit application beyond the traditional wraps/pendants lights options. Traditional surface mount Wraps(1*4) These new flat panels style fixtures deliver a slim thinner profile, even light distribution with less glare, and better aesthetic look when compare with other traditional surface mounting
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