Illumis Lights
About:
Introduction (extracted from enquiry)
Introducing illumis lights, a specialist C&I LED lighting company, with ambition to become ‘the’ LED lighting specification site for lighting professionals.
We have developed a unique LED product search and select tool, which allows designers to input required or minimum spec information their project needs, and then returns the Best of the Best in LED products from a wide range of manufacturers. We then allow the specifier to prioritise these results by personal or project preferences, with the aim of truly offering the very best product every time.
A unique search number can be saved with every search, which holds the spec (+/- products), thus reducing the risk of a designers specification being diluted further down the build chain, while also allowing contractors and installers to purchase the best products on the market (at the time of install) without the risk of dropping below the minimum specified performance criteria.
We provide only the best quality LED products, from multiple contract manufacturers, enabling us to offer the largest range of independently tested, quality-rated LED products in the UK.
Illumis combine a progressive approach to fixture design and contract manufacturing with stringent, on-going quality audits. We have numerous locally based employees across China and Taiwan, visiting potential manufacturing partners daily, and have QA offices based in both Shanghai and Foshan.
We have launched this week, initially with a view to attract OEM sales within the UK. During this time our specifier journey is being finalised and developed on the site.
Contacts: Dr. Ellis Maginn
Business Development Manager UK
Illumis Lights
email: ellis@illumislights.com
web: www.illumislights.com
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NGS OPINION
- I fear that this level of sophistication can leave the user needing to use their brain in ways that that may not have been asked to before.
- They may well be presented with products they do not know.
- More guidance may be necessary on the topic and scale of vertical sliders? similar to the horizontal sliders? Popups?
- And runs a risk of leaving them with an answer that they cannot recall the question or substantiate or defend the answer.
- The question and answers can be saved of course.
- But if your system records the request, the results and the reasons for the results and prints them out then you have a great service.
- There is a great leaning opportunity with this tool as long as its informative.
SpecNet (long gone now?) started with 1000 thumbnails of baths and as you made choices the number shrinks until you have 3 pictures of baths that meet all your requirements.
Green Issues
Its not just about energy efficiency (but this is very important)
- Appropriate lamps AND luminaires for the job
- Zhaga compliance: Resource efficiency, replaceable LED at end of LED life, not a throwaway luminaire.
- Embodied Energy
- Embodied Carbon
- Life Cycle Assessment (this will not be cheap or easy)
- RoHS compliance: the logo is there presumably the non-compliant are absent?
- REACH compliance: all the other chemicals
- SVHC: below 0.1% threshold
- ETL listed: the logo is there presumably the less efficient are absent?
The focus is LEDs.
- LEDs are not the answer to every question
- If the only question is energy efficiency they win most of the time
- LEDs can be the wrong answer to a wrong question
- LEDs are spotlights why are we not seeing more bespoke tip shapes to redirect the light?
- Putting a string of spotlights on a tube that fits a tube mounting luminaire designed for uniformly distributed light lamp, changes the nature of the lighting delivered.
- Downlighting or spotlighting is not the same as room lighting
- LEDs are a stop-gap solution to reduce energy consumption, with some other properties
- Appropriate lamps AND luminaires for the job
- Glare could be a problem with LEDs
CSR or Corporate Sustainability
- Most but not all lighting is made in the far east
- out of sight of US, UK and EU eyes,
- it would be nice to see Corporate responsibility slide bars in there too!
- with EU legal minimum as the minimum threshold
- GreenSpecLight offers a CSR service aimed a the lighting sector.
Illumis Lights
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