Edge-X
Edge-X is a revolutionary technology that uses refraction rather than reflection to create tailored light distributions.
This enables unprecedented control over the photon as soon as it emerges from the LED and allows us to reduce the luminaire to module sizes that can be integrated directly into the built environment.
This enables unprecedented control over the photon as soon as it emerges from the LED and allows us to reduce the luminaire to module sizes that can be integrated directly into the built environment.
One of the Best Innovations of Light+Building
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One of Top 10 Products of LightFair International
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General Lighting
General lighting has over 100 years of history, development, and refinement. From indoors to outdoors, commercial to residential, architectural to utilitarian, it is a $60B industry that is now attempting to reinvent itself around the (comparatively) brand new technology of LEDs.
While the use of LEDs in lighting products has made significant progress, the true integration of the technology - where it conveys brand new benefits and functionality a magnitude or more over previous technologies - is still a work in progress. In particular, LEDs demand a whole new revenue structure that has been very difficult for many companies to capitalize on.
Edge-X is not only a solution to the myriad of technological challenges that face the lighting industry, but can also eventually provide an answer to the question of how to recover profit margins.
Click here to find out more about how Edge-X can do this.
While the use of LEDs in lighting products has made significant progress, the true integration of the technology - where it conveys brand new benefits and functionality a magnitude or more over previous technologies - is still a work in progress. In particular, LEDs demand a whole new revenue structure that has been very difficult for many companies to capitalize on.
Edge-X is not only a solution to the myriad of technological challenges that face the lighting industry, but can also eventually provide an answer to the question of how to recover profit margins.
Click here to find out more about how Edge-X can do this.
Horticulture
Vertical farming has presented an unprecedented opportunity to control not just the volume and speed of growth, but even the nutritional makeup of crops. Studies in the last few years have proven that "lighting recipes" can tailor the amount, quality, and content of what we grow, and these formulas need to take into account not just color, intensity, and timing, but also distributions - in particular, its diffusive quality.
Beyond understanding each crop's daily and seasonal lighting needs, horticulture's main lighting challenges include:
Current solutions have focused primarily on color, timing, and sheer lumen output, which have been adequate for getting horticultural businesses off the ground. But the lights also tend to be bulky, hot, and inefficient in their ratio of useful light vs lumen output, which can eat into the already slim margins of vertical farming.
Edge-X can address all of the above key challenges facing horticultural businesses, providing crucial advantages to profit margins and product differentiation. Contact us to find out more!
Beyond understanding each crop's daily and seasonal lighting needs, horticulture's main lighting challenges include:
- The light source cannot be a significant source of heat
- To maximize planting volume, the light itself should be both compact as well as be able to distribute useful light to as many plants as possible
- The light distribution needs to be of a quality that maximizes the crop's growth and desired traits
- Because there is a cost to operating artificial lighting as opposed to using natural lighting, the fewer lights needed, the better
Current solutions have focused primarily on color, timing, and sheer lumen output, which have been adequate for getting horticultural businesses off the ground. But the lights also tend to be bulky, hot, and inefficient in their ratio of useful light vs lumen output, which can eat into the already slim margins of vertical farming.
Edge-X can address all of the above key challenges facing horticultural businesses, providing crucial advantages to profit margins and product differentiation. Contact us to find out more!
Automotive
Beyond the necessary headlights and taillights, the extent of automotive lighting has generally swung between the two extremes of the purely decorative or strictly utilitarian. In the case of the former, the most common applications are simple accents or "mood lighting", with hardly any lighting distribution control. In the case of the latter, dome lights and truck bed lighting are little more than glorified flashlights set into the chassis, and have not changed appreciatively in design for many decades.
Lighting for a vehicle has a set of unique challenges, particularly as the industry continues to move toward autonomous vehicle and ridesharing applications, where riders are spending more and more time inside a vehicle without needing to be fully occupied with or being considerate of the vehicle's operation:
While current solutions have been "good enough" for now, these are also precisely the sorts of problems that the Edge-X technology was designed to excel at solving, and in the autonomous and ridesharing environment, even more crucial to differentiating the rider experience.
How can Edge-X help differentiate and enhance the riding experience? Contact us to find out more!
Lighting for a vehicle has a set of unique challenges, particularly as the industry continues to move toward autonomous vehicle and ridesharing applications, where riders are spending more and more time inside a vehicle without needing to be fully occupied with or being considerate of the vehicle's operation:
- The light must be small and flexible enough to integrate into a vehicle chassis
- The light must be comfortable for riders even though it is set less than an arm's length away from their eyes
- There are multiple riders in a small space, and the lighting experience must be customizable for each of them without appreciable spillover
- The light must be usable for multiple types of activities and comfortable enough for lengthy periods of time, especially within autonomous vehicles
While current solutions have been "good enough" for now, these are also precisely the sorts of problems that the Edge-X technology was designed to excel at solving, and in the autonomous and ridesharing environment, even more crucial to differentiating the rider experience.
How can Edge-X help differentiate and enhance the riding experience? Contact us to find out more!
IoT Integration
Light is essential to all human activity. As a result, lighting is one of the first and most essential infrastructural systems to be built wherever humans develop. It only makes sense to piggyback on this pre-installed network of cabling and "nodes" when laying down other infrastructural needs, such as sensors, signal propagation, or methods of interaction with people in large or multiple locations.
However, up till now, the development of the IoT ecosystem has largely run parallel to lighting as opposed to being developed hand-in-hand with true integration. Nearly every product in the market treats one or the other as an afterthought - it either starts out as an IoT device that happens to also provide some light, or as a light that happens to have IoT-related functionality. As a result, the product tends to be bulky, inefficient, or an eyesore when installed.
Edge-X is the first lighting technology that can provide high quality, efficient lighting while also allowing other instrumentation to be integrated in a very compact, discreet footprint with possibilities of additional functionality that other lighting technologies cannot match. Neither lighting or IoT functionality has to be the afterthought, and Edge-X's versatility means that IoT can be added wherever lighting is, whether the form factor is linear, cans, or a custom installation.
Want to see how Edge-X can reduce the IoT footprint while also creating all new functionalities and applications for IoT?
Contact us to find out more!
However, up till now, the development of the IoT ecosystem has largely run parallel to lighting as opposed to being developed hand-in-hand with true integration. Nearly every product in the market treats one or the other as an afterthought - it either starts out as an IoT device that happens to also provide some light, or as a light that happens to have IoT-related functionality. As a result, the product tends to be bulky, inefficient, or an eyesore when installed.
Edge-X is the first lighting technology that can provide high quality, efficient lighting while also allowing other instrumentation to be integrated in a very compact, discreet footprint with possibilities of additional functionality that other lighting technologies cannot match. Neither lighting or IoT functionality has to be the afterthought, and Edge-X's versatility means that IoT can be added wherever lighting is, whether the form factor is linear, cans, or a custom installation.
Want to see how Edge-X can reduce the IoT footprint while also creating all new functionalities and applications for IoT?
Contact us to find out more!
Health & Wellbeing
Humans are such visual-centric beings, it comes as no surprise that more and more research is being published every month on how light and the quality of light can affect everything from our mood to our physical health. The effect of the right - or wrong - lighting can not only be counted by the individual in terms of personal impact, but in actual dollar signs when it comes to productivity and medical care. While the exact long-term effects are still being debated, it is undeniable that getting lighting correct is a major contribution to our physical and mental wellbeing, even in the short and medium-term.
The variables that can impact our productivity, health, mood, and overall wellbeing go beyond just color and timing. The distribution, or how well the properties of diffusion and glare are controlled, have a visceral, immediate impact as well. With its ability to create sculpted, beautifully diffuse distributions and perfect color mixing, Edge-X is ideal for applications in which health and wellbeing are a large factor, all in a streamlined package that is easily integrated into human-centric systems and the built environment.
Contact us to find out more!
The variables that can impact our productivity, health, mood, and overall wellbeing go beyond just color and timing. The distribution, or how well the properties of diffusion and glare are controlled, have a visceral, immediate impact as well. With its ability to create sculpted, beautifully diffuse distributions and perfect color mixing, Edge-X is ideal for applications in which health and wellbeing are a large factor, all in a streamlined package that is easily integrated into human-centric systems and the built environment.
Contact us to find out more!