Oct 9, 2026 · 41 min · 9 segments
In Episode 4 of the 1Home Podcast, our CEO Satja welcomes Ronald Schiefer, CEO of Emilum and ex-CEO of Loxone Lighting, for an in-depth conversation on the future of smart lighting. Ronald shares his…
Uh, there's another topic I wanna touch, um, and I think you're the perfect, uh, perfect, um, speaker for this.
Um, and it's about open versus closed.
Uh, um, so, you know, um, Emilum is built on open standards.
Um, what does that mean for you in practice and, you know, day to day, and what does it mean for an installer or, or, you know, your customer, your B2B customer, let's say?
Um, our focus is on open standards, right? Why, uh, is that? Mm, I, we think, um, the best solution for the customer is to have an open system and to be open in the future.
Because nobody knows what will come in the next few years, which technology.
But if you has, for example, in DALI protocol, yes? It's open standard, and it's very restrict standard, which is good for the end customer.
Because for one example, if you're using one DALI dimmer for, from our side, a BP8 or BP, BP6, okay? You're using this in your house with an LED stripe from our side.
Um, you tell the dimmer or the system, "Uh, you have an stripe with 2,200 and pattern 5,700." Kelvin, okay? And then the system knows which is the, uh, the setup to make 3,600 kelvins.
And the next is you're not in a closed system on... and, and depends on one manufacturer.
Um, you can choose any supplier, you can choose any luminaire, you can choose additional systems and so on.
We, we also believe-
... we also believe in, in, in open standards.
Of course, sometimes it's attractive to close it a little bit.
Uh, there's another topic I wanna touch, um, and I think you're the perfect, uh, perfect, um, speaker for this.
Um, and it's about open versus closed.
Uh, um, so, you know, um, Emilum is built on open standards.
Um, what does that mean for you in practice and, you know, day to day, and what does it mean for an installer or, or, you know, your customer, your B2B customer, let's say?
Um, our focus is on open standards, right? Why, uh, is that? Mm, I, we think, um, the best solution for the customer is to have an open system and to be open in the future.
Because nobody knows what will come in the next few years, which technology.
But if you has, for example, in DALI protocol, yes? It's open standard, and it's very restrict standard, which is good for the end customer.
Because for one example, if you're using one DALI dimmer for, from our side, a BP8 or BP, BP6, okay? You're using this in your house with an LED stripe from our side.
Um, you tell the dimmer or the system, "Uh, you have an stripe with 2,200 and pattern 5,700." Kelvin, okay? And then the system knows which is the, uh, the setup to make 3,600 kelvins.
And the next is you're not in a closed system on... and, and depends on one manufacturer.
Um, you can choose any supplier, you can choose any luminaire, you can choose additional systems and so on.
We, we also believe-
... we also believe in, in, in open standards.
Of course, sometimes it's attractive to close it a little bit.
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