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Somerset, New Jersey – Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, and Honeywell (NYSE: HON), a global leader in connected buildings, today announced a strategic alliance to deploy integrated lighting solutions for commercial buildings. Together, the companies aim to improve the occupant experience – focusing on productivity and well-being – and to reduce energy consumption.
Additionally, building owners and operators will be able to better manage lighting systems and energy efficiency with smart LED lighting systems. Lighting represents 17% of all electricity used in US commercial buildings according to the Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey,ii making it the largest end use of electricity in buildings.
Signify’s connected LED lighting system, Interact Office, can save up to 70% of the energy used for lightingiii. Deploying advanced building controls and sensing, like those from Honeywell, can save up to 30% in facility energy costs.iv
“Increasingly, we see lighting systems playing a critical role in buildings to improve occupant comfort, well-being and productivity as well as to help meet energy-savings goals. We anticipate that this trend will continue to grow,” said Vimal Kapur, President and CEO, Honeywell Building Technologies. “Our collaboration with Signify will allow us to enable our customers to help improve the occupant experience with customizable lighting solutions that can be integrated into our Honeywell Forge and Building Management Systems platforms.”
Harsh Chitale
Digital Solutions Division Leader, Signify
Integrated Building and Lighting Systems to Serve Patients at Malaysian Eye Clinics
Honeywell and Signify are deploying integrated offerings at OPTIMAX Eye Specialists in Malaysia to help the network of clinics improve air, surface and object disinfection efforts.
“Honeywell and Signify offered our clinics a complete solution for air, surface and object disinfection. We can clearly communicate to clinicians, staff and patients how we are working to support well-being in our spaces,” said Tan Sri Dato’ Tan Boon Hock, Founder, OPTIMAX Eye Specialists Centre.
The clinics are using Signify UV-C lighting in upper air luminaries, stand-alone trolleys and in Honeywell-controlled fan coil units to increase wellbeing by contributing to disinfect air± and surfaces§ in rooms. Honeywell’s Healthy Buildings dashboard will control and monitor the Signify lighting technologies in the clinics.
The integrated Honeywell and Signify products can support the needs of any building; specific solutions are available for premium commercial buildings, airports, hospitality, education and retail. Honeywell and Signify are also currently deploying the integrated solutions in several Honeywell global offices.
* Signify’s products (including its UV-C air and surface disinfection products) are not medical devices, they are not approved, certified or registered as medical devices in any jurisdiction, and are not meant by Signify to be used for the disinfection of medical devices or for other medical purposes.
± The germicidal effectiveness of UV-C light sources is proportional to the exposure time of the microorganism to the UV-C light source and the intensity of the UV-C light source. Therefore, sufficient air flow in the room (which may be achieved through forced air flow or natural convection) is required for effective operation of Signify’s UV-C upper air disinfection luminaire solutions.
§ Signify’s UV-C surface disinfection products (fitted with Signify’s UV-C light sources) will achieve the same level of virus infectivity reduction as long as the same UV-C dose is achieved on each area of surface that is irradiated.
References
1 Signify’s products (including its UV-C air and surface disinfection products) are not medical devices. They are not approved, certified or registered as medical devices in any jurisdiction, and are not meant to be used for the disinfection of medical devices or for other medical purposes
i Nadia Storm et al, Rapid and complete inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 by ultraviolet-C irradiation, 2020. Subject to peer review and available only as a pre-print at https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-65742/v2. The UV-C irradiance used in this study was 0.849 mW/cm2.
Honeywell Building Technologies
Megan McGovern
Tel: +1 (404) 216-6186
E-mail: Megan.McGovern@Honeywell.com
Signify North America Corporation
Beth Brenner
Tel: +1 215 595 3102
Email: beth.brenner@signify.com
Signify Global Media Relations - Professional Lighting
Claire Phillips
Tel: +44 7956 489081
Email: Claire.Phillips@signify.com
Signify (Euronext: LIGHT) is the world leader in lighting for professionals and consumers and lighting for the Internet of Things. Our Philips products, Interact connected lighting systems and data-enabled services, deliver business value and transform life in homes, buildings and public spaces. In 2022, we had sales of EUR 7.5 billion, approximately 35,000 employees and a presence in over 70 countries. We unlock the extraordinary potential of light for brighter lives and a better world. We achieved carbon neutrality in our operations in 2020, have been in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index since our IPO for six consecutive years and were named Industry Leader in 2017, 2018 and 2019. News from Signify is located at the Newsroom, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram. Information for investors can be found on the Investor Relations page.
