Partnership between LynX® and Zumtobel helps healthcare sector use light smartly

"The healthcare industry is always looking for ways to offer a better healthcare experience. With the smart use of light, the healthcare sector can make a lot of progress. The collaboration between LynX® and Zumtobel should now accelerate this use."

For example, clever use of light can ensure that residents with wandering behavior are intuitively guided to safe places: the nursing station will light up and the exit will subtly darken.

Bert Verschuren, CEO of Zumtobel Benelux: "Until recently, healthcare organizations chose their lighting on the basis of two questions: is there sufficient light at all times of day and does the luminaire fit aesthetically into the building concept? Now we see that they are also asking themselves a third question: in what way can the lighting we are going to install help us provide even better care? And that for caregiver, care recipient and for the visitor to the hospital or residential care centers."

It is here that LynX® comes into the picture. The software platform is part of the Telecom-IT Group and developed the LynX® lifeline product, a smart lighting technology.

Filip Gelaude, CEO of LynX®: "Through our smart lighting, for example, nurses can see at a glance where they need to be for an intervention. Patients or residents, in turn, intuitively know that their call was well received and that help is on the way. But lighting can also serve to locate people and property. Or we can give the lighting in a residential care center a different hue in the morning than later in the evening."

"There are endless scenarios to configure, which we always develop together with the services involved."

For example, LynX® lifeline was recently integrated into the operations of AZ Sint-Lucas in Ghent by 25-8, also part of the Telecom-IT Group with more than 500 customers in the healthcare sector.

Tom Messiaen, managing partner 25-8: "AZ Sint-Lucas opted for intelligent LED lighting in the corridors, which allows a wider use of the already foreseen investment in lighting. The lighting now also functions as door messengers, emergency lighting and can show the way to the emergency exit or the patient involved during evacuation or needed resuscitation."

Smart lighting is also proving its worth in residential care centers.

Messiaen: "Residents with wandering behavior are given a wristband. The advanced light management system then intuitively guides residents with wandering behavior to safe places. For example, the nursing station will light up and the exit will subtly darken."

The cooperation between LynX® and Zumtobel will now initially focus on the further development of LynX® lifeline.

"With the integration of LynX® in our luminaires, from now on we can offer our customers in the healthcare sector significant functional added value and thus continue to grow as a market leader in lighting for healthcare organizations," concludes Bert Verschuren, CEO of Zumtobel Benelux.