Smart lighting is one way to control the lights around your home, but there's an even more effective, old-school way to handle lighting a room.

Lighting accounts for an average of 35% of the total energy in a building and upgrading to LEDs can provide more than 50% in energy savings. If you add a control system, this can provide an additional ...

Choosing the correct output mode on a photoelectric sensor is critical to reliable machine operation. A simple configuration ...

Hybrid lighting control systems combine the features of both wired and wireless lighting control to create a game-changing approach that maximizes flexibility, efficiency, and scalability. For ...

In a tunable lighting system, emitted light is detected by a sensor that then sends information to a system controller so appropriate modifications can be made to the correlated color temperature (CCT ...

An overwhelming majority of handheld devices these days have ambient light sensors built into them. A large percentage of TVs and monitors do, too, and that proportion is growing. The sensors allow ...

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Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The long-promised Thread sensor is finally here, but while there are some improvements, Matter’s shortcomings ...