Moving to the Innovation Center --- Part II

The lighting system is one of the advance technologies in the building. Each light is equipped with a motion detector that will turn on and off the light without a touch of the hand. It also has a light sensor that will automatically adjust the brightness to ensure the consistency of the brightness of the room. They didn’t stop there; each light is hooked up to the network and has its own IP address, and they can be adjusted the brightness through a web application. Due to the growing concern of security and hackers (turning the building into a disco), the web service is protected behind the university firewall. The drawback of the lighting system is that we are unable to turn off the light easily. It makes it very difficult to use the projector and view the slides or power point presentations during meetings.



Of course, that’s not always a bad problem. Our hacker team is working hard to fix the problem.