Lunera announced that Technical Consumer Products Inc. (TCP) has integrated the Lunera Smart Lighting Platform into its product portfolio.
The Lunera Program consists of a royalty-free Smart Module reference design and an open and secure, cloud-based IoT software platform. The solution integrates into lighting manufacturers’ standard LED products, including luminaires; retrofit kits; lamps and accessories. In addition, OEMs have access to a set of end-user applications developed by Lunera and a broad ecosystem of third-party software companies.
Lunera’s approach gives LED lighting manufacturers a material and implementation cost advantage. Its Smart Module reference design gives its OEMs data speed and scale advantages over other solutions in the market. And, the Lunera micro-service architecture, built for security from the ground up, enables rapid application development and deployment. Now lighting manufacturers can go from a standard LED product to a fully cloud-connected Smart Product in just a few months.
“We recognize the forward thinking that the team at TCP demonstrated when considering how to deliver an open, networked lighting system which supports interoperability to ensure long term value for their customers” says John Bruggeman, CEO of Lunera. “They chose our solution because it is cost effective to implement and it demonstrates leadership with their customers by delivering an energy management platform that extends to offer indoor location services capability,” Bruggeman continues.
Lunera collaborates with lighting manufacturers to integrate its Smart Module reference design and provides the firmware to enable Smart-ready products. The lighting manufacturer distributes its Smart-ready luminaires, retrofit kits or lamps through its existing channels. To make the platform as cost effective as possible, there are no hardware or firmware licensing fees paid to Lunera.
“The core of our business is developing and manufacturing energy efficient lighting products for practical applications and now our customer base will have access to software expertise from Lunera demonstrated in their Smart Lighting Platform,” states Ellis Yan, CEO of TCP. “Customers will be able to install our smart-ready products as they would any standard lighting product, and when ready, they can realize added-value from our lighting retrofit by connecting to the Lunera Smart Lighting Platform. This is the first step for them to transform their lighting system into a smart building infrastructure.”
TCP smart-ready luminaires and LED lamps connected to the Lunera Smart Lighting Platform can form a universal IoT gateway infrastructure that can enable energy management including networked lighting controls, and location-based services. Commercial and industrial customers including retailers, hotels, warehouses, corporate campuses, airports, schools and hospitals can deploy a smart building infrastructure with Smart-enabled TCP products. TCP is working with Lunera to have products commercially available for customers in 2018.
Examples of services enabled in a facility that has been connected to the Lunera Smart Lighting Platform include Networked Lighting Controls (NLC), occupancy-based HVAC integration, energy management including automated demand response, and a host of Real-Time Location-based Services (RTLS) including indoor GPS, asset and people tracking, space utilization mapping, and proximity messaging.
Buildings using Smart OEM products connected to the platform enjoy system Wi-Fi bandwidth with the ability to track more than 50 assets per device. Commissioning is done in minutes through software, and the costs of installing and maintaining beacons and gateways, routers, or controllers is eliminated.
Independent Software Developers find access ease to the cloud-based Smart Lighting Platform micro-services software through APIs (application program interface). Their apps are available in the cloud-based Lunera Marketplace, similar to Apple or Google app stores.
Lunera is enabling the transformation of the lighting industry through the Smart Lamp Platform. Interested lighting manufacturers should contact at Lunera at (877) 354-3870 to speak with an OEM relations team member or send an email inquiry to [email protected]. Visit the Lunera website for more information about its Smart Lighting Platform.