It's funny this AXTG, I made a presentation to them some years back it went like this. I put my finger on a dimmer switch and I said:
" Imagine a world where when it was daylight out... you rolled down the lights and saved energy. " Well they all sat there and looked at me like I was crazy. But then I did it- I lowered the lights. There was an audible gasp in the room- "but we can still see with the daylight" they said. Exactly.
Now those of us working from the home can do this by ourselves but big buildings that leave lights on all the time they need a little help and that's where this new technology comes in- not the dimmers but some complicated form of my presentation limited to fluorescent lighting!
Now guys I'm not telling you anything you don't know but fluorescent bulbs are going the way of the outhouse- so I'm not sure the real viability here but hard to argue with todays action.
Axis Technologies Group, Inc. conducts its business through a wholly owned subsidiary, Axis Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska. Axis Technologies, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets a proprietary line of energy saving and daylight harvesting electronic dimming ballasts for the commercial lighting industry. The company's target market is small to large commercial users of fluorescent lighting including office buildings, wholesale and retail buildings, hospitals, schools, and government buildings. In 2002, Underwriters Laboratory (UL) approved Axis products for sale in both the United States and Canada. The Axis Dimming/Daylight Harvesting (DDH) ballast is priced competitively and is the only daylight harvesting ballast system that can be marketed as a replacement for a standard ballast. Although Stoney's finger works fine too.
A "ballast" is an electronic component that regulates voltage in fluorescent lighting. Axis Technologies Group, Inc. has developed an innovative new ballast with the aim of expanding daylight harvesting into mainstream fluorescent lighting applications. The patented Axis Dimming/Daylight Harvesting Ballast is a new technology that transforms the ballast, a once standard lighting industry staple, into a dynamic energy saving system that can reduce lighting energy costs by up to 70%. The Axis DDH Ballast utilizes an individual photo sensor to automatically adjust the amount of electrical current flowing to the light fixture, and then dims or increases lighting in conjunction with the amount of available sunlight that may be harvested from available windows and sunlight. The Axis DDH Ballast avoids "over-lit" conditions that increase energy costs by keeping lighting "tuned" to the desired level in a designated area. If you sneak a smoke in the basement though watch out AXTG will turn out the lights on you!