Gone are the days when offices were just seen as blocks of concrete and steel in which we work. Increasingly they’ve become smart. And forward-thinking organizations are capitalizing on this –transforming offices into structures for promoting employee productivity, wellbeing and competitive advantage.
We entered the projector market in 1994, when Signify (formerly Philips Lighting) invented the Philips Ultra High Performance (UHP) Projector lamp. Our first lamp was manufactured in Turnhout, Belgium. It was a breakthrough that transformed the projector market by bringing brightness and performance levels never experienced before.
In September 2018, we co-launched the “Energy Efficiency and Electric Vehicles” report with the Rocky Mountain Institute. The report covers scenarios and recommendations on how accelerated renovation of buildings can pave the way for the electric vehicle (EV) revolution, while keeping global warming below 2°C.
Eric Rondolat, CEO of Signify, made an analysis of the market about six years ago to discover that not just one transition was under way, but five. The common thread in the transitions that are constantly taking place within the company: "With our technology jump, we make a meaningful contribution to a better world."
I’m passionate about the Hospitality sector: in my day job as well as being an intrepid traveler outside work, I have visited some of the best luxury hotels around the world. From my experience, if you want to help hotel guests sleep better, and wake up refreshed, you need to give them an abundance of light in the morning, less light in the evening, and the least possible light during the night.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is reconfiguring industries from the inside out
