This year's National Facilities Management & Technology (NFMT) event will include a seminar on the role of lighting on tomorrow's facilities.

The combination of LEDs, Controls and IoT-Sensors is about to change the entire business model of lighting. No longer fulfilling just an illumination role, tomorrows lighting systems will provide a wealth of valuable data for building owners. Architects and designers will be adjusting light levels and colors to affect building occupants’ health, mood, and productivity. Lighting will become a means of communications as well as illumination. Given these tectonic changes, how will building owners meet the needs of tomorrow’s tenants? What new revenue streams these changes generate? This presentation will provide those answers by examining the future of lighting.

Learning objectives:

1. List the skills required to provide for these systems
2. Learn how the Internet of Things will affect building control systems and how the lighting industry's "ceiling ownership" may be at risk
3. Review why nontraditional industry firms are looking to see what role they might play in tomorrow's lighting world
4. Investigate how using IoT-sensors creates the potential to overwhelm traditional data collection strategies, and what new approaches to data analysis are required

The session, scheduled for March 20 at 9:00 a.m. (EST), will be given by John Curran, President, LED Transformations, LLC

The event will be held in Baltimore on March 20-22, 2018.

Check out the NFMT website for more information.