Aurora will commercialize data from smart lighting by early next year

Aurora Group has fleshed out details of its recently disclosed line of smart LED luminaires, telling LEDs Magazine that it plans to soon launch pilot implementations and to fully commercialize by early next year when it hopes to start monetizing the data that the product gathers and analyzes via communications chips, sensors, and cloud computing connections. The company will focus its new AXiO brand initially on the retail trade, where stores can use chips and sensors embedded in the lights to track customers around the aisles.