Aurora UK: IoT-enabled Smart Lighting for Sustainability

During an online forum, Chris Hill, product manager of Aurora UK, has shared insights on how businesses can harness the power of IoT technologies to take a pivotal role in sustainability.

Chris has shared the UK & EU market trends on circadian rhythm and dynamic lighting control, off-premise remote access and system management, lighting data analytics/energy monitoring and other further potential integrations empowered by IoT technologies. The Aurora product manager also talked about the company's focus on commercial and industrial spaces and its commitment to energy saving empowered by smart IoT technologies.

Chris has introduced Aurora’s approach of integrated smart technology – tailored Bluetooth solutions. “These technologies offer easy installation and commissioning that can deliver immediate and significant energy savings,” said Chris.

The online forum, entitle “Global Smart Connectivity: Sharing, Openness, Opportunities,” was hosted by Tuya Smart (NYSE: TUYA), a global IoT development platform service provider who introduced Aurora to an extensive range of partners from in its developer ecosystem. This has empowered the lighting company to achieve its energy-saving ambition.

“We see a great opportunity for us to come into the Tuya ecosystem,” said Chris, “we'll be able to have all devices running on a gateway which opens up a lot of performance in improvements, such as remote access, multiple gateways etc.”

Chris also talked about the company's approach to achieving sustainability through smart lighting. For most commercial and industrial spaces, lighting is one of the main causes of energy consumption. IoT-enabled smart lighting can be a very energy-efficient solution for most buildings. Features such as daylight harvesting solutions and smart lighting control can reduce the lighting energy use by large.

Chris also identified off-premise remote access as an opportunity for the future smart lighting industry and the company's focus. “There is so much opportunity in the middle ground where people don't have the budget for a scale hardware system, but they all want some sort of wireless control,” said Chris.