India, a fast-growing connected lighting market: Signify

`Lighting has gone beyond just illumination, in the data context’  

India is a fast-growing market for connected lighting systems with several state governments, local bodies and sports authorities increasingly showing interest in smart lighting systems, said Netherlands-based Signify, formerly Philips Lighting.

Signify, that currently has more than 109 million connected light points around the globe, including in India, attributed the rapid growth to focus on smart cities was on the rise. Connected lighting systems comprise light fixtures that have sensors and are connected to a network allowing them to send and receive data.

“In the future, we expect healthy growth in this segment, as more and more municipal bodies start adopting smart city infrastructure,’‘ Gregory Nelson, Global Business Leader, Professional Systems & Services at Signify, told The Hindu.

The city of Pune, Naya Raipur Development Authority in Chhattisgarh and New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) have been pioneers in adopting connected lighting systems in the country, he observed.

More importantly, deployers were also able to harvest valuable and dependable data from connected lighting systems that could be used in decision-making, Mr. Nelson pointed out.

“Lighting has gone beyond just illumination and quality data is emerging out of these lighting systems that are capable of driving decision making,’‘ he added.