Controls are still new to lighting reps but we have Todd M. Reemtsma, a multi-year multi-industry veteran to help understand better.

One issue is that controls remain separated from other parts of the process, commissioning, design and even reps. Everyone wants more of every pie and that extends up to manufacturers and their platforms and protocols. The barriers between fields and between protocols will start to come down when it’s something that end users demand, much like how it happened in theatrical lighting. Control intent narratives, even simple ones, from designers, even ones that don’t deal in controls, can do a lot for creating what customers and users want. We also get into generation gaps, lessons from that infamous Massachusetts High School and the value of using wires for your controls.