We attended LightFair, as usual and in general it felt a little less crowded, with fewer exhibitors and lighter foot traffic. LFI has become the mega-show for the lighting industry; but is now facing multiple competitive shows across the country (LED Show, LEDucation, LightWest, Strategies in Light and several more). LFI 2019 was truly the biggest showcase for controls; with the advent of LED, lighting has become a medium for new markets: Spectral Health, UV sterilization, indoor farming, animal ontogeny and more. And then there's the Internet of Things... a societal movement to measure, record and analyze everything. Lighting has a significant seat at the table for IoT; it offers the physical geography and mechanical structure to support the sensors to measure activities, the geography has a ready power supply, and LED offers up a PC board that can be adapted to support communication systems (Bluetooth, Dali, etc.)...