Acuity Brands connected lighting application

Acuity Brands - Connected Light, Engineered Forward

Network-ready commercial luminaires and controls for connected lighting projects.

From the spec sheet to the commissioning visit, Acuity Brands lines up fixture families, drivers, sensors, and nLight controls so facilities, design and procurement teams sign off on one cohesive lighting package—not a stack of mismatched line items.

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System Advantages

Lighting programs shaped around performance, controls, and field adoption

Acuity Brands fixture engineering detail

Application engineering

Fixture families are framed by room type, mounting height, visual comfort, and maintenance access rather than by catalog shorthand alone.

Controls readiness

Dimming, occupancy, daylight harvesting, and network options are considered early enough to protect commissioning schedules.

Documented delivery

Submittal language, certification references, and replacement logic make procurement reviews easier for multi-site buyers.

Applications

Lighting built for the places where teams work, move, gather, and maintain assets

Commercial offices lighting

Commercial offices

Open plans, private offices and meeting rooms get balanced 3500–4000K luminance, glare-controlled troffers, and tunable workstation-level dimming so daylight harvesting earns LEED credits without sacrificing visual comfort.

Education and campuses lighting

Education and campuses

Classrooms, libraries and dorms move to vandal-resistant fixtures with code-mandated emergency egress, occupancy/vacancy sensing per ASHRAE 90.1, and centrally scheduled lighting for after-hours custodial routes.

Warehouse and industrial lighting

Warehouse and industrial

High-bay luminaires rated up to 30,000 lumens with IP65 enclosures, motion-zoned dimming and DLC-Premium efficacy keep aisles safely lit while trimming connected load to under 0.4 W/sq ft.

Exterior site lighting lighting

Exterior site lighting

Site-wide flood, wallpack and area pole packages ship with photocell + scheduled astro-clock control, BUG-rated optics for dark-sky compliance, and surge-protected drivers built for North-American utility transients.

Project Path

From evaluation to repeatable rollout

01

Audit

Map spaces, ceiling conditions, controls intent, and operating goals.

02

Select

Match fixture families to light quality, efficacy, and field constraints.

03

Document

Prepare submittal-ready notes for procurement and project review.

04

Commission

Coordinate dimming, sensors, emergency needs, and owner acceptance.

05

Scale

Extend the standard across sites while preserving local requirements.

"The most useful lighting partner is the one that keeps product selection, controls planning, and installation reality in the same room."

Facilities program manager, multi-site lighting retrofit

Next Step

Plan the next Commercial Luminaires decision with Acuity Brands

Send floor plans or a fixture schedule and the Acuity application engineering team will return a side-by-side: room-by-room luminaire selection, controls topology (nLight Air vs. wired), submittal-ready photometric files, and an order-of-magnitude lead-time per family — typically inside three business days.