Osram launches building management tools, free of lights

Five years after engineering giant Siemens spun out Osram as a lighting company, Osram is now forging a non-lighting, engineering identity for itself. A few months after saying it will exit luminaires, Osram this week announced two pilot installations in commercial office buildings where is providing sensors and digital services — but no lights or lighting controls — to better run the facilities. In two small trials begun in August, Osram and German digital consulting firm mantro GmbH have outfitted the offices of Lithuanian property firms Citus and Technopolis with a set of occupancy sensors and software, which Osram and mantro have jointly developed under the banner VISN.