MAKING THE CONNECTION

摘要

As any lighting professional who has made the trek to Light + Building in Frankfurt will well know, the annual trade fair for lighting and building services is huge, encompassing some 2,500 exhibitors and an estimated 210,000 visitors.To that end, comprehensively covering all the new products and technologies on display at the Messe Frankfurt in the limited space of a print magazine is an impossible task. Nevertheless, the motto of this year's show, which ran from 13-18 March, was 'digital - individual - networked', with the 'smart city' and connected lighting agendas very much to the forefront. What follows, therefore, is a snapshot of just some of the connected lighting technologies on display. More widely, it serves to illustrate how R&D in this exciting new area is accelerating and, indeed, the sort of products now coming to market that could be making a significant commercial impact in the coming months and years.