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Unlocking Smart Efficiency: Your Guide to AI-Ready Buildings
Discover how AI can optimize energy, comfort, and operations and how you can lead smarter, more sustainable buildings. Navigate the transition to AI-ready buildings. This whitepaper offers insights into energy optimization, alarm management, sustainability reporting, and predictive maintenance. Gain actionable strategies, real-world case studies, and a clear roadmap to harness
Final Version of DesignLights Consortium’s New Technical Requirements for LED Lighting Released
The SSL V6.0 and LUNA V2.0 Technical Requirements are now combined in a single set of technical requirements and scheduled to take effect in January. Key updates to SSL V6.0 include: A major revision to the DLC Premium product classification for luminaires with higher efficacy thresholds and more rigorous requirements
MIT Sloan Executive Education Programs
Our programs offer hands-on learning experiences and cutting-edge research to empower you to tackle today’s challenges and seize tomorrow’s opportunities. Courses for Individuals – MIT Sloan Executive Education courses provide hands-on learning experiences, faculty research, and proven frameworks that have immediate applicability to careers and organizations. Executive Certificates – Pursuing
Agentic AI Can Transform Manufacturing, Deloitte Report Finds by Cary Gitter
Agentic AI refers to autonomous generative AI agents that possess “agency”—the ability to both act and choose actions to take—which enables them to independently complete complex tasks and achieve human-defined objectives with minimal or no supervision. Multiagent systems consist of multiple AI agents completing specific objectives and collaborating to accomplish sophisticated
Webinar: AI and Ecommerce: The Future for Electrical Distributors
Discover how AI is transforming electrical distribution—from customer insights to ecommerce efficiency—in this exclusive webinar with industry leaders from DDS and ECI. October 22, 2025 @ 11:00am ET, Duration: 1 hour. In this webinar, Matt Christensen, President & Co-founder of DDS, and Chris Fisher, VP of Global Ecommerce at ECI,
Embracing Modern Software Development Practices in the AI Era
The whitepaper reveals how organizations can transform their software development practices to meet today’s demanding business requirements while ensuring security and quality. Key findings include: 87% of developers using generative AI reported increased focus on meaningful work Organizations face significant challenges in monitoring security across growing attack surfaces Modern software
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LED Beam Selectable Linear Highbay by SATCO/NUVO
The SATCO|NUVO LED Beam Selectable Linear Highbays deliver powerful, configurable illumination for high-ceiling commercial and industrial environments. Each fixture features selectable beam distributions of 45°x100°, 65°x95°, or 90°x90°, providing precise control for aisle, general, or wide-area lighting layouts. All models offer 3CCT selectability (3000K/4000K/5000K), multiple wattage options across four lumen
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Design Research Looks at How Lighting Affects Mood by Jim Romeo
A 2026 study published in The Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society is adding a new layer to the conversation about lighting design—one that electrical contractors and electricians working in commercial environments may want to pay close attention to. The research explored whether lighting conditions influence people’s self-reported mood, perception and health symptoms. Twenty-eight
The Distributor Is the Heartbeat of Construction Sales by Jim Nowakowski
Manufacturers know what they produce. Engineers know what they specify. Contractors know what they install. But distributors sit at the intersection of all three. The distributors see which products move through their warehouses. They hear the questions contractors ask at the counter. They learn which installations go smoothly and which
White Paper by Intertek: A Comprehensive Guide to AI Quality Assurance
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming products, processes, and decision-making across industries, bringing enormous opportunity alongside a new category of risks around safety, bias, drift, data governance, and regulatory compliance. Rapidly evolving regulations like the EU AI Act all present challenges that traditional quality systems weren’t designed to handle. Download our
