Since the LED was taken into account to illuminate man-made spaces, a very important technological discontinuity has been generated, the conversion from analog to digital world, has radically changed the concepts of production, efficiency, longevity and quality of light.
Since the 1970s there has been a surge in the production of electronic objects, in 2000 lighting fixtures also became part of this world.
A Copernican revolution that is reflected on the mechanics of the luminaires, the components are 10 times smaller for the same performance, the heat management needs special surfaces and materials; efficiency never seen before, in the laboratory we have reached an efficiency of 205 lm\W, frequencies of light emitted much more precise, coded differently, with TM30 tables; nano-optics and mini reflectors were born, to manage the emission of point light and make it very precise.
Within this scenario the Hardware component becomes a commodity, what differentiates LED products from traditional ones is the possibility to control light easily with bidirectional binary protocols, to associate it to already consolidated software architectures (Gateway, Slave, Master, Nodes, etc.) typical of the control systems of factories or buildings, both residential and tertiary.
In the present and in the future more and more the behavior of these new systems will generate data and their control will be managed digitally. This opens up increasingly concrete scenarios on dimensions such as measurement, performance, automation and sustainability.