Acuity Brands Recognized for the Second Consecutive Year in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Indoor Location Services, Global

Acuity Brands Recognized for the Second Consecutive Year in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Indoor Location Services, Global

ATLANTA -- May 12, 2020  -- Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) today was named for the second consecutive year in the Gartner Magic Quadrant* for Indoor Location Services, Global.

Acuity Brands offers a suite of products and solutions that can be configured based on customers’ unique requirements to provide location aware services for their buildings and businesses in the retail, healthcare, commercial office, airport, industrial and other markets.

“Location-aware services from Acuity Brands can leverage connected lighting, BMS or other open source networks to deliver location data for enhancing human, operational and other experiences,” said Steve Lydecker Senior Vice President of Applied Technology Solutions at Acuity Brands. “By leveraging location data, businesses can better understand what is going on in their physical spaces, from employee productivity to asset utilization and building performance.”

The Gartner Magic Quadrant study evaluates the strategies and current capabilities of vendors providing indoor location services globally. Gartner states in its 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Indoor Location Services, Global report that “Acuity Brands offers an end-to-end solution that includes visitor analytics, visitor engagement, employee journey and asset tracking, embedded into an LED product (battery-operated Bluetooth® Low Energy beacons are optional) that helps to save on electricity in either lighting or HVAC systems.”*

“We believe the reason that Acuity Brands is the only lighting and BMS company shortlisted is due to the interoperability, scalability and security of our overall location-aware solution,” said Audwin Cash, Senior Vice President of Atrius Enterprise Solutions.

In addition to connected luminaires, lighting and BMS controls, controllers/gateway, drivers, asset tags and other digitally enabled hardware, the company offers software services tailored for verticals as part of the location-aware offering. The primary software brands include Atrius®, Distech Controls, LocusLabs™ and BuildingOS®.

  • Atrius is a comprehensive location-aware data platform that leverages connected LED lighting networks to deliver real-time location data. It provides indoor location, wayfinding/navigation, and customer and asset analytics in retail, aviation, healthcare and industrial complexes to improve operations and enhance employee and customer experiences inside facilities of all types.
  • The Distech Controls platform enables enhanced automation for occupant comfort and control as well as energy efficiency in commercial office, hotel and healthcare environments. A key feature of the platform’s capabilities is a suite of mobile apps such as myPERSONIFY that allow users to more easily control their indoor environment.
  • The LocusMaps connected mapping platform for indoor and built spaces from LocusLabs, helps venue operators improve user experiences and administer their facilities. The platform enables map publishing for virtually all mobile devices to make navigating complex spaces such as airports and large corporate campuses easier for customers and employees.
  • The BuildingOS energy management information solution provides data centralization and streamlined reporting to improve building performance across commercial portfolios. The platform is commonly used to identify energy savings and to provide information to optimize resource consumption.

“Innovation is the engine of development in our location-aware products and solutions at Acuity Brands. We have been Expanding the boundaries of lighting™ by creating smart, connected lighting for use in new construction or renovation projects,” said Martin Villeneuve, President of Distech Controls.

For more information and to download a copy of the report compliments of Acuity Brands, please visit this page.

*Source: Tim Zimmerman, Annette Zimmermann, Gartner, 13 January 2020.

A Gartner Magic Quadrant is a culmination of research in a specific market, giving you a wide-angle view of the relative positions of the market’s competitors. By applying a graphical treatment and a uniform set of evaluation criteria, a Magic Quadrant helps you quickly ascertain how well technology providers are executing their stated visions and how well they are performing against Gartner’s market view.

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About Acuity Brands

Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company.  We develop, manufacture and bring to market products and services that make the world more brilliant, productive, and connected including building management systems, controls, lighting and location-aware applications. Acuity Brands achieves growth through the development of innovative new products and services. 

Through the Acuity Business System, the Company achieves customer-focused efficiencies that allow the Company to increase market share and deliver superior returns.  We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow our current businesses and to enter attractive new verticals.

Acuity Brands is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America and in Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by over 12,000 dedicated and talented associates.  Visit us at www.acuitybrands.com.

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