Casambi Opens New Regional Hub in Singapore
Casambi Asia Pacific team
Casambi, the leading producer of wireless lighting control systems, is celebrating a pivotal milestone with the opening of its first office in Asia Pacific (APAC), which will also be its regional headquarters. Located in Singapore, Casambi’s regional hub will enable the Finland-headquartered company to boost customer service and facilitate closer collaboration with industry partners to create lighting products and solutions that enhance health, wellness, and sustainability.
Casambi’s technology provides lighting designers and manufacturers with the ability to wirelessly link devices together enabling the creation of customizable smart lighting networks that are easily configured and controlled using the Casambi App. The technology is based on Bluetooth Low Energy, which offers low interference and minimal energy consumption. Its scalable and interoperable solutions can be integrated into a wide range of elements, from individual lighting fixture controls to industrial-scale solutions through cloud-based remote control, monitoring, and data logging.
The company collaborates with many of the leading luminaire, driver, LED board, LED lamp, and lighting control module manufacturers to offer the most comprehensive ecosystem for wireless lighting controls. Today, the Casambi Ecosystem provides complete end-to-end solutions to many industries spanning tourism and hospitality, industrial, retail, residential, office, outdoor, arts and heritage, education and healthcare.
Since its establishment in 2011, Casambi has sold over four million Casambi Ready devices worldwide and completed over 150,000 projects.
Kari Mettälä, CEO of Casambi, giving his welcome speech
At its opening ceremony, which was attended by Mr. Kari Mettälä, CEO of Casambi, Mr. Edmund Hui, General Manager of APAC at Casambi, and Casambi Ecosystem partners and customers, Kari Mettälä said, “Wireless lighting control solutions are gaining popularity due to their proven track record of reducing energy consumption, lowering operating costs, improving safety, and providing transparent and scalable network infrastructure with minimal disruption. Over the past decade, we have been providing the technology that underpins the transformation from wired to wireless lighting control, and the incorporation of our Singapore office shows our commitment to come closer to our partners in APAC and offer more resources that will set them up for success. We look forward to strengthening our partnerships and taking them to the next level.”
With Casambi’s versatile solutions that entirely eliminate the need for control wiring, building owners can personalize the lighting controls of different environments without conducting surface reconstruction. They can control lighting via the Casambi App, which caters to the highest demands and fulfillment down to the smallest detail. It allows the switch between daylight, circadian, and time-based scenes, offering outstanding user experiences and improving occupant well-being and productivity.
“Artificial light is part of our everyday lives, and its effect on our health and well-being should be taken seriously. Casambi’s software platform empowers users of smart devices to wirelessly interact with artificial lighting – in doing so, radically changing the way people and businesses light their surroundings to provide variation according to personal needs while optimizing energy use to improve the operational profile of the building. Our controls enable spaces to offer excellent user experiences while improving one’s visual acuity and alertness to surroundings,” said Edmund Hui, General Manager of APAC at Casambi. “With our APAC hub, we look forward to working closely with our Casambi Ecosystem partners to deliver personalized lighting options to customers in countries including Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea.”
Some of Casambi’s industry-leading partners include ERCO, Tridonic, Occhio, Louis Poulsen, WILA Lighting, and Formalighting, to name but a few.
Real estate owners, architects, developers, and managers are always on the lookout for the best solutions to increase occupant satisfaction, reduce costs and improve the energy efficiency of their buildings. ERCO has recently illuminated the SongEun Art and Cultural Foundation building by the Swiss architects, Herzog & de Meuron, which is located in Seoul. Eclipse spotlights from ERCO are used throughout for display purposes: wireless controllability via Casambi as well as the high flexibility and wide selection of light distributions were benefits adding weight to the choice of lighting tools. Thanks to the new lighting installation, new projects and exhibitions can be displayed conveniently, individually, and effectively.
Wila Lighting recently relit the BBC’s seven main sites across the United Kingdom. The BBC’s technical services team decided to bring Casambi’s lighting control solution to the majority of its buildings, allowing the lights to be controlled wirelessly from mobile devices. At Broadcasting House, the BBC’s London HQ, 2,000 fluorescent light fittings in the new part of the building have been replaced with LED alternatives, together with new sensors and Casambi wireless control. The installation was quick, simple, and cost-effective, as no other hardware was required apart from Casambi Ready luminaires, sensors, and switches. Together with WILA Lighting, Casambi control helped to achieve energy reductions of 20%, in line with the BBC’s sustainability strategy.
Casambi and Formalighting have recently created a unique dining experience for guests at AMI + Wood Ear, a fine dining restaurant located in the Central Business District area of Hong Kong. With a minimalistic approach, Formalighting developed custom track heads inside ceiling slots and ensured minimal recessed downlights. The integration of Casambi’s wireless control enables restaurant managers of AMI + Wood Ear to control the lighting from a wireless device within the restaurant and bar to enhance the ambience for the diners.
