Digital Lumens Cuts Lighting Costs With Networked LEDs

Oh, LEDs--so promising, yet so expensive. Digital Lumens, a LED lighting startup based in Boston, thinks it has a solution for commercial customers with a system of networked LED lights that communicate with each other via an on-board computer.

The startup claims that its system saves energy and cash because the whole thing is managed by powerful software. A single networked fixture features its own computer, Zigbee wireless networking chip, and sensors that detect people milling about...