Signify and Honeywell launch holistic lighting solutions to optimize commercial building space experience

Global lighting leader Signify (Euronext Amsterdam code: LIGHT) recently announced a strategic partnership with global smart building leader Honeywell (NYSE code: HON) to launch holistic smart lighting solutions for commercial buildings. The two parties are committed to optimizing space experience, improving office efficiency and user well-being, and reducing building energy consumption.

Through this collaboration, the parties integrate Signify's Interact smart connected lighting systems and software, UV-C disinfection lighting systems with Honeywell Building Management Systems and Honeywell Forge enterprise performance management platform, using occupancy rates and air quality indicators such as temperature and humidity as evaluation factors to comprehensively manage building energy consumption. Signify lighting solutions[*] will initially empower Honeywell's Healthy Building Air Quality Solution in early 2021, controlling, evaluating and monitoring air and surface cleanliness indicators within the building through the Healthy Building control interface.

To further improve office efficiency and user well-being, Signify also provides Human Centric Lighting solutions for this collaboration, including the NatureConnect simulated natural lighting system and UV-C disinfection lighting systems. UV-C ultraviolet light can destroy the molecular structure of DNA or RNA in the cells of microorganisms such as viruses and bacteria, achieving inactivation effects. Laboratory tests show that Signify UV-C light sources can effectively inactivate the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 to below detectable levels within 9 secondsi.

In addition, building owners and property managers can leverage smart connected LED lighting systems to enhance the management capabilities and energy efficiency of their lighting systems. A survey on commercial building energy consumptionii shows that lighting accounts for the largest share of total electricity consumption in U.S. commercial buildings, reaching 17%. The proportion of electricity used for lighting in commercial buildings globally is generally at a similar leveliii.

Signify's Interact Office smart connected LED lighting system can effectively save 70% of lighting electricityiv, and when combined with Honeywell's advanced building management and sensing systems, it can reduce overall property energy consumption by 30%v.

"Lighting systems play an increasingly important role in enhancing user comfort, well-being, and work efficiency, as well as in achieving energy saving goals. We believe this trend will continue," said Vimal Kapur, President and CEO of Honeywell Building Technologies. "This collaboration with Signify will enable Honeywell to provide customized holistic lighting solutions to customers using the Honeywell Forge platform and building management systems, enhancing the space experience."

"As is well known, lighting can effectively enhance the space experience and user well-being," said Harsh Chitale, President of Signify's Digital Lighting Solutions business. "Many customers' expectations for Signify's lighting solutions have gone beyond lighting itself. We hope to collaborate with Honeywell to jointly develop more valuable products and systems for our customers, committed to creating greater value for users, such as improving user well-being and office efficiency, and providing channel partners with products that are easier to commission and maintain."

Integrating building and lighting systems benefits patients at a Malaysian eye clinic

Currently, Honeywell and Signify are collaborating to deploy a comprehensive Solution for OPTIMAX Eye Specialists, Malaysia's leading chain of eye clinics, aiming to improve clinic air quality and enhance surface disinfection.

"Honeywell and Signify have jointly provided our clinics with a comprehensive Solution covering air, surface, and object disinfection, demonstrating our efforts to ensure clinic hygiene and enhance user well-being," said Dato' Sri Tan Boon Hock, Founder of OPTIMAX Eye Specialists.

Currently, OPTIMAX clinics combine Signify's upper-air disinfection systems and standalone disinfection carts with Honeywell system-controlled HVAC to disinfect clinic air ± and surfaces §, enhancing the spatial experience. Clinic managers can monitor the usage of Signify products in real time through the Honeywell Healthy Building Operations interface.

Through this collaboration, Honeywell and Signify can integrate their respective product strengths to provide customized Solutions for specific building management needs in industries such as high-end commercial buildings, airports, hotels, healthcare, education, retail, and sports venues. Currently, both parties are deploying comprehensive Solutions for several global offices under Honeywell, utilizing Philips upper-air UV-C air disinfection systems.

Honeywell Healthy Building Solutions help building owners improve the building environment, enhance cleanliness and safety, ensure compliant social distancing, and assist employees in returning to work with confidence. By integrating air quality, safety and security technologies with advanced analytics tools, Honeywell Healthy Building Solutions aim to help building owners monitor the building environment and usage, minimize environmental contamination risks, and ensure business continuity.

Reference

i "UV-C radiation can rapidly and completely inactivate the novel coronavirus", Nadia Storm et al., 2020; subject to peer review, currently published only as a preprint at https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-65742/v2. The UV-C radiation dose used in this study was 0.849 mW/cm2.

ii U.S. Energy Information Administration, Preliminary Results of the 2018 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey. 2012 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey - Trends in Commercial Building Lighting Electricity Use, May 17, 2017 [Accessed December 6, 2020]

iii Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers Journal Unit 22: Lighting Control Technology and Energy Saving Strategies, November 2010 [Accessed December 11, 2020]

iv The Climate Group, "Energy Smart: Accelerating the Commercial Adoption of Connected Indoor LED Lighting", October 19, 2020 [Accessed December 14, 2020]

v Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, "The Impact of Commercial Building Management on Energy Saving and Peak Load Mitigation", May 2017 [Accessed November 17, 2020]