Lighting Controls:
Beyond the Toggle Switch

My first experiences with lighting controls weren’t good. In the 1980s, a cousin of mine, knowing that I’d be interested, was showing off the new occupancy sensors he had just installed in his Providence, Rhode Island home. We were sitting in the living room chatting quietly when—you guessed it—the lights went out. Throughout the evening, if one of us hadn’t recently gotten up for a beer, we would have to periodically flail our arms or clap to keep the lights from switching off.

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