Commercial Lighting Controls & LLLC
Put the Right Light in the Right Place—Only When It’s Needed.
Lume Lighting helps commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities reduce unnecessary lighting operation and improve system performance through modern lighting controls and Luminaire Level Lighting Controls (LLLC).
From occupancy sensing and scheduling to networked controls, daylight response, and fixture-level intelligence, we evaluate how your facility uses light and develop control strategies around how the space actually operates.
Occupancy • Scheduling • Daylight Control • Networked Controls • LLLC
Before Adding Efficiency, Eliminate Waste
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Better Control Can Change the Economics of the Entire Lighting System
Efficient fixtures reduce the amount of energy required to produce light. Controls address something different: whether that light needs to be operating in the first place.
Warehouses, manufacturing areas, offices, storage spaces, corridors, exterior areas, and other facility spaces rarely need identical lighting output every hour of operation.
Modern controls allow the lighting system to respond to actual conditions.
Depending on the facility, that can mean:
- Turning lighting off when spaces are unoccupied
- Reducing output when full illumination is unnecessary
- Adjusting lighting around operating schedules
- Using available daylight before consuming additional energy
- Creating zones that reflect how different areas are used
- Providing task-specific lighting levels
- Monitoring lighting operation and system status
- Adjusting lighting without physically rewiring the facility
The objective is straightforward: provide the lighting the facility needs without paying to operate lighting it doesn't.
Where Lighting Controls Make Sense
Look for the Hours and Spaces Where Lighting Doesn't Need to Operate at Full Output
Lighting controls create the most value where lighting demand changes throughout the day, occupancy is inconsistent, daylight is available, or different areas of a facility have different operating requirements.
Common opportunities include:
Warehouses & Distribution Centers
Aisles, storage areas, staging spaces, and other intermittently occupied areas can remain illuminated for long periods with little or no activity. Occupancy sensing, zoning, scheduling, and high-end trim can reduce unnecessary operating hours and output.
Manufacturing & Industrial Facilities
Production areas may operate on different shifts, schedules, or occupancy patterns. Controls can create operating zones, respond to activity, reduce output during downtime, and provide greater flexibility as production requirements change.
Offices & Administrative Areas
Private offices, conference rooms, break rooms, corridors, and other intermittently occupied spaces can benefit from occupancy control, scheduling, daylight response, and appropriate light-level settings.
Healthcare, Senior Living & Institutional Facilities
Facilities operating around the clock often require different lighting conditions by space, activity, and time of day. Controls can support scheduling, zoning, dimming, tunable lighting, and more responsive lighting environments while maintaining operational requirements.
Schools & Educational Facilities
Classrooms, corridors, gymnasiums, cafeterias, offices, and other spaces have significantly different occupancy schedules and lighting needs. Controls allow lighting operation to follow how each space is actually used.
Parking Garages & Exterior Areas
Lighting may need to remain available for safety and facility operation without necessarily operating at full output continuously. Scheduling, photocells, occupancy response, dimming, and zoning can reduce unnecessary energy use while maintaining required illumination.
Multi-Location Facilities
Standardized control strategies can help organizations establish more consistent lighting operation across portfolios of retail, commercial, institutional, or other distributed facilities.
The Best Opportunities Are Often Already Visible
If lighting operates at full output in empty spaces, remains on outside operating hours, ignores available daylight, or cannot respond to different uses within the facility, there may be an opportunity for better control.
See Where Better Control Can Make a Difference
Every facility operates differently. Lume can evaluate your existing lighting, controls, operating schedules, occupancy patterns, and facility requirements to identify where better control may reduce waste, improve lighting performance, and create measurable value.
From Controls Opportunity to Operating System
Controls Only Create Value When They Work as Intended
Identifying a controls opportunity is only the beginning. The system must be properly selected, installed, configured, commissioned, and verified around the way the facility actually operates.
Lume can manage the controls process from existing-condition assessment through implementation and functional verification.
Assess → Design Strategy → Incentivize → Implement → Commission → Verify
The result is more than installed controls. It is a lighting system configured around the facility's operating requirements, with documented settings and a known performance baseline.
