Issue #69 | January 2020
Featured Manufacturer
wakaNINE is a North American distributor for international lighting designers whose aesthetics blend nature and technology in modern forms, representing David Trubridge and PLN Group (New Zealand), Ango (Thailand), and Stephen Pikus Design (South Africa), designers that focus on eco-friendly materials and sustainable production techniques. wakaNINE's fixtures qualify for use in Wellness, LEED, and Living Building Challenge projects, and are featured in the Wellness & LEED Platinum certified ASID Headquarters.

Learn more about wakaNINE by visiting their website .
The WELL Building Standard® is a performance based system for measuring, certifying, and monitoring features of the built environment that impact human health and wellbeing, through air, water, nourishment, light, fitness, comfort, and mind. WELL is managed and administered by the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), a public benefit corporation whose mission is to improve human health and wellbeing through the built environment.
 
This month, The MH Companies and wakaNINE are giving away an Xbox One X Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Bundle (1TB)! Or, the winner can choose to receive a $500 Visa gift card instead of the gaming bundle! Enter today, and you could be joining the list of previous monthly giveaway winners! Yes, people really do win! We have photos and videos to prove it!
Entry deadline is January 31, 2020!
MH Controls Corner:
PoE Lighting and Its Challenges

Each month, a member of our Lighting Controls Department  offers insight and advice about lighting controls. This month's article is brought to us by Mike Bogomolov, our Controls Engineering Supervisor.

The inevitable next frontier for the commercial lighting industry is controls integrated into light fixtures. It makes sense, as the controls industry has claimed an ever increasing footprint in lighting design, and both lighting and controls must coexist. Why not wrap it all up into a single package? In doing so, we can consolidate on delivery, installation, and maintenance of a lighting package for any given project, all of which lead to cost savings for the end user which is usually a main objective. Few options in the foreseeable future stand to provide this level of integration more than the concept of PoE (Power over Ethernet) lighting. However, as we all know, no concept goes to market without a slew of inherent problems that must first be addressed.
 
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