Prompted by lighting's growing role in the loT, manufacturers, technology companies and industry groups including Enlighted, Tridonic and DesignLights Consortium announced at LIGHTFAIR the loT-Ready Alliance, which hopes to develop a standard for "loT-ready" fixtures. The alliance's goal is to ensure all new LED light fixtures be shipped with a standard socket that enables sensors and connectivity modules to be easily added to the fixture after installation. According to the alliance, an estimated 350 million LED light fixtures will ship worldwide this year, but less than 5 percent will include an loT sensor. Companies that adopt LED lighting without loT capabilities now face a "lock-in risk" because upgrading to IoT after a fixture is installed is "prohibitively expensive." Further, that lock-in has the potential to endure as long as the lamps do—potentially decades—during which time technology will continue to advance, prompting the need for generational updates.
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机译：受照明在loT中日益重要的作用的推动，包括Enlighted，锐高和DesignLights联盟在内的制造商，技术公司和行业组织在LIGHTFAIR上宣布了“ loT Ready联盟”，该联盟希望为“ loT Ready”灯具制定标准。该联盟的目标是确保所有新的LED灯具均随附标准插座，该插座可使传感器和连接模块在安装后轻松添加到灯具中。根据该联盟，估计今年将在全球范围内运送3.5亿个LED灯具，但其中只有不足5％的是loT传感器。采用不带loT功能的LED照明的公司现在面临“锁定风险”，因为在安装固定装置后升级到IoT的成本“过高”。此外，这种锁定可能会一直持续到灯管使用（可能持续数十年），在此期间，技术将继续发展，从而引发了对世代更新的需求。
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