POWER TO THE PEOPLE

摘要

How are your IT skills? It might be time to brush up on your infrastructure knowledge as the lighting and IT worlds move ever closer. Indeed, the market metric for the big lighting manufacturers has shifted from dollars per lamp to dollars per lux and now on to dollars per bit - the same metric used by the likes of Google. So what technology is emerging in this brave new world? Perhaps the best known example of the new breed is using Power over Ethernet (PoE) technology to create a connected lighting solution.