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5 July 2017 | Marino Donati

Bright Future, a report from Zumtobel Group Services (ZGS), says the UK retail industry could be making billions of pounds worth of savings from digital transformation of its lighting systems.

It concludes that as well as saving energy and reducing maintenance costs, digital lighting systems provide a network on which to mount sensor-based and data-based technologies.

In the lighting-as-a service arrangement, the provider can also update outmoded technology as innovations come along, and help retailers develop their lighting network into the sensor-based digital infrastructure to create ‘smart stores’.

After modelling a series of examples across the UK retail sector, it concludes that the sector could save almost £6.3 billion over the period to 2025.

“This is one of those rare opportunities where upgrading to a new digital generation of technology can pay for itself through the savings that technology generates,” said Darren Riva, sales director at ZGS.

“The ability of the ‘as-a-service’ model to remove any need for capital expenditure is something that a body of retail pioneers have already latched onto, in order to deliver technical improvement and immediate contribution to the bottom line.”

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Several end-use organizations, particularly government facilities, restaurants, and hospitals, seek to garner substantial cost and energy savings brought about by using LED lights. The LaaS model helps them get over expensive retrofits and avoid large upfront capital investment since they usually pay monthly subscription fees to the provider throughout the contract.