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Lunera Transforms the LED Light Bulb into an Ambient Computing PlatformLunera, an IoT infrastructure company, today announced that it is changing the networking and compute paradigm with the introduction of Lunera Smart Lamps, Lunera Ambient Compute software platform and Lunera Ambient Compute Marketplace. The company's unique Smart Lamp invention embeds sophisticated IoT-edge technology-networking, compute, sensors and controls-directly into the end-cap of a light-emitting diode (LED) light bulb. The Lunera Ambient (News - Alert) Compute software platform automatically creates a self-organizing, Wi-Fi mesh network that can connect billions of IoT devices to the cloud. The wireless infrastructure, in each Lunera Smart Lamp, can deliver an IoT network that is completely omnipresent. The network supports devices that use Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, IEEE (News - Alert) 802.15.4 and EnOcean protocols. Using the compute technology-processors, memory and storage-in each Lunera Smart Lamp, the Lunera Ambient Compute platform can create a fog and edge cloud. This enables its users to reduce their dependency on the cloud and benefit from less latency, more speed, improved security and privacy, and lower costs. "Not too long ago, we went from believing that the computer is the computer, to understanding that the network is the computer. Today, Lunera is leading the next shift, one that has the potential to be even bigger: the network is everything around us," said John Bruggeman, chief executive officer, Lunera. "Until now, no one has conceived of the light bulb as the network or the platform for ambient computing. We believe Lunera is perfectly situated to realize the promise of this new compute paradigm." Deployed within indoor settings on a massive scale, Lunera can enable context-aware applications-from indoor wayfinding, asset tracking and Wi-Fi monitoring to proximity messaging, space utilization, occupancy-based HVAC control and automated demand response-to run in and between the cloud, the edge and the device itself. Lunera and third-party applications are available in the Lunera Ambient Compute Marketplace. LED light bulbs are the ideal hardware form factor to drive the shift to ambient computing. Light bulbs are pervasive throughout an indoor space, reach every inch of a room and have always-on power. By leveraging Lunera's patented, plug-and-play technology, an end-to-end deployment can be cost justified on energy savings. The Lunera Ambient Compute Marketplace is built on an open, standards-based microservice architecture that enables rapid development, deployment and integration of third-party ecosystem applications. The first wave of applications available within the Marketplace include:
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IDI Logistics - a portfolio company of Brookfield Property Group Innovation Partner At 2017 CoRE Tech Conference Lunera is the Innovation Partner at CoRE Tech 2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Nov. 14-15, 2017. The company will have the following presence at CoRE Tech 2017:
Availability Lunera Smart Lamp, Lunera Ambient Compute, Lunera Ambient Compute Marketplace and Apps will be available December 2017. Additional Resources
About Lunera, Inc. Lunera is an IoT infrastructure company that provides an ambient compute platform to connect billions of devices to the cloud. Lunera's breakthrough approach enables context-aware, fully automated applications to run in and between the cloud, the edge and the device itself. A robust set of these applications such as indoor wayfinding, asset tracking, Wi-Fi monitoring, proximity messaging and space utilization are available in the Lunera Ambient Compute Marketplace. The company's unique invention embeds sophisticated IoT-edge technology, networking, compute, sensors and controls capabilities, directly into each LED lamp. Light bulbs are well positioned for this paradigm shift due to its low cost of deployment through energy savings, ubiquity, density and always-on power. Lunera is redefining traditional LED lighting to catalyze change and realize the promise of ambient computing. For additional information, visit www.lunera.com or connect with us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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