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  • the future of lighting series
    • six disruptive trends in architectural lighting
    • smart signage concept for retail shelving
    • virtual production and its impact on the real world?
    • hyper vignettes: localizing digital/physical experiences
    • 5 tips to prevent digital signage burnout
    • trends in digital media for athletic facilities
    • active objects, surfaces and zones
    • media-driven vs data-driven environments
    • next evolution of lighting
    • wrap your spaces in social media
    • embedded lighting series
    • the future of office design?
    • the DC powered building
    • koerner design wins US DOE sustainable luminaire design competition
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    • the 3 sins of innovation theater
    • the innovation attitude matrix
    • innovation management: marketing vs product marketing vs sales communications
    • elon musk’s 5 step R&D strategy
    • Business thinking for designers
    • being a good product manager = listening, synthesis, advocacy
    • mixtape for product management

Tag: Power-over-Ethernet

Lighting Technology

sinclair digital

November 24, 2021 Brad Koerner

Sinclair Digital is an interesting new startup focused on DC-power and systems integration for hospitality/multi-unit residential applications, which itself spun out from a hospitality development/operator group. Luis Suau, Chief Business Officer from Sinclair Digital found my 2020 ISE SBC presentation … Continue reading sinclair digital

Future Lighting

PNNL report on DC-powered lighting and microgrids

October 15, 2020 Brad Koerner

Researchers Gabe Arnold and Grace Pennell from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory recently released a white paper titled DC Lighting and Building Microgrids: Opportunities and Recommendations. They conduct an excellent review of the advantages of DC-power (which closely mirrors my … Continue reading PNNL report on DC-powered lighting and microgrids

Lighting Technology

lumencache lighting

October 15, 2020 Brad Koerner

LumenCache Lighting is an another interesting entrant to the DC-power revolution, focusing on residential lighting applications. LumenCache has developed a solution with a patch-panel style configuration that can accept a variety of driver or control modules – at the panel … Continue reading lumencache lighting

Future Lighting

SBC 2020: The DC-Powered Building – conference video

July 17, 2020July 16, 2020 Brad Koerner

If you’re interested in net-zero energy solutions for commercial or retail facilities, you should consider DC power as the next step. Check out this nicely produced video of my conference presentation and Q&A session at the ISE Smart Building Conference, … Continue reading SBC 2020: The DC-Powered Building – conference video

Creative Manufacturers

smartengine | wtec

July 11, 2020 Brad Koerner

Frankfurt-based Smartengine is a supplier of Power-over-Ethernet smart building technologies, sensors, lighting and controls. A few team members from wtec approached me after my presentation on DC power at the 2020 Smart Building Conference here in Amsterdam. If I remember … Continue reading smartengine | wtec

Lighting Technology

energie IP

November 9, 2018 Brad Koerner

Energie IP is a Paris-based startup that is developing a building management system (BMS) based on Power-over-Ethernet technology (PoE). PoE holds promise in architectural projects to accomplish three key objectives:  Distribute DC power with inherent IP-connectivity to the thousands of … Continue reading energie IP

Lighting Technology

eaton low voltage lighting system

May 20, 2016May 20, 2016 Brad Koerner

Via LEDsMagazine, a very interesting article and video interview between LEDs Magazine Editor-in-Chief Maury Wright and Eaton VP Ken Walma detailing Eaton’s new distributed low-voltage DC power system for LED lighting, which Eaton launched at Lightfair 2016.. Even though Eaton is … Continue reading eaton low voltage lighting system

Creative Manufacturers

igor tech

March 13, 2016March 12, 2016 Brad Koerner

Igor-Tech is yet another Iowa-based startup launching a Power-over-Ethernet lighting solution.  Not much yet in the way of details on their site, but it looks like another commercial office-focused system design. Continue reading igor tech

Creative Manufacturers

innovative lighting

March 12, 2016March 12, 2016 Brad Koerner

Innovative Lighting is a startup based in a small town in Iowa that is developing a PoE lighting system they are branding Genisys (Iowa of all places…where my dad goes for antique John Deere meet ups!).  I’m impressed by their progress – … Continue reading innovative lighting

Lighting Technology

microsemi

October 9, 2015 Brad Koerner

Most of the key tech innovations in the lighting industry are coming from outside of the lighting industry.  And even though most of the “digital” tech is based on open-standards, some of the most lighting-applicable tech is not common.  For … Continue reading microsemi

Lighting Technology

nuleds

October 9, 2015 Brad Koerner

California-based Numinous is launching NuLEDs, another entrant with a Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) LED lighting system.  I say “another” because they remind me very much of the old Redwood Systems and of course, the PoE system Philips Lighting has launched. Continue reading nuleds

Lighting Technology

voltserver

June 23, 2015 Brad Koerner

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science has awarded three Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants targeting key advances in solid-state lighting (SSL) technology.  One of them caught my eye:  VoltServer, Inc. won a grant for “Low-Cost, High-Efficiency … Continue reading voltserver

Creative Manufacturers

moodifier

April 10, 2015 Brad Koerner

Moodifier is a small UK startup with a nascent range of IP and Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) drivers targeted towards residential applications.  So if you’re an EE or “maker” type who wants to hack together your own residential lighting dream system, at least … Continue reading moodifier

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