Lighting & controls: transitioning to the future

This book was written to assist the reader in making good lighting and lighting controls decisions which consider all of the most important and relevant new developments in lighting technology. It is designed to serve as a useful and practical hands-on resource for anyone involved with the engineering, maintenance, purchasing, specification, retrofit, remodeling, or new construction aspects of interior or exterior lighting applications. The written presentation seeks to offer very practical approaches for maintaining, as well as for updating existing lighting systems, providing expert guidance on how to plan for the future in terms of achieving optimum long-term lighting solutions. Among key topics covered are LED lighting developments and applications, comparisons of LED with other types of light sources, maintenance costs, achieving low power density, the pros and cons of LED T8s, and human centric lighting.