Lighting & Control Trends

As lighting salespeople navigate the post-Covid era and steady merger and acquisition activity, they will be confronted with four major trends now reshaping the lighting and controls market:

1. App-based lighting control is commonplace for homes and other smaller applications.
2. Wireless lighting control is popular for applications with a small footprint and retrofit work with a relatively limited number of fixtures to control.
3. Networked lighting control systems are often tied in with HVAC, building automation and security systems in larger applications.
4. Field-selectable CCT (correlated color temperature) and wattage is now widely available across the lighting industry.

Read the full article from Jim Lucy, Editor-in-Chief of Electrical Wholesaling, including the best sources of lighting information.