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livebau knew how to let this artwork of Swarovski Crystal Worlds shine that resembles a jellyfish floating on the surface of the ocean: The body is lit up by 48 dynamically controlled (DMX) RGBW LED Dots and connected to a glass fibre plait of 10 meters with 180 single fibres that represent the tentacles of the jellyfish and can be illuminated in different colours.

In addition, livebau was in charge of creating the „Black Pond Line“, a shining line consisting of two 2 LED-rows of 15m each with RGB-colours that was installed along a footbridge across the pond close to the jellyfish.

Inspired by the term Common Ground – a concept proposed by Herbert H. Clark and Susan E. Brennan that comprises the collection of “mutual knowledge, mutual beliefs, and mutual assumptions” in the communication between two people –, this artwork represents the communicative interaction between different cultures, languages, arts and sciences. It describes the diverse and lively encounters at an educational institution open to everyone like the “Münchner Volkshochschule (MVHS)” in Munich.

The sculpture was mounted at a distance of 15 cm from the wall and is illuminated from behind by 14 RGBW-LED spotlights, installed by livebau and controlled via DMX. The lighting scene changes in a subtle way as a coloured lighting slowly fades into a purely white lighting. The spotlights are aligned in a specific way to follow the form of the artwork emphasizing its colour concept. The colourful, three-dimensional wall sculpture has a stimulating effect and invites you to go almost up until the end of wall to experience the artwork physically.  

The Common Wall is made of steel and aluminium and accompanies the movement of the MVHS visitors: Whenever you enter or leave the institution, the sculpture dynamically leads you. The restaurant planned to be built soon outside of the back entrance will find itself in a stunning setting that covers the less spectacular wall of the gymnastic and sport halls.

The concept of the Common Wall was inspired by the style of urban art like graffiti and similar graphic notation forms as well as narrative and fanciful music images of complex present music compositions. Another symbolic level represents the different courses of the MVHS: The percentage of the courses taken last year were transformed into colour patches in the corresponded size and put together as various pieces of a big cake.

The German lighting specialist livebau continues to follow a its path of success. In the last three months of the past fiscal year, livebau scored again with its many years of expertise in the field of high quality electrical engineering and closed the fourth quarter with  incoming orders of € 1.4 million. The services for lighting control and lighting technology are a stable guarantee of livebau’s success, but luckily the demand for services with regard to automation and smart sensing as well as media technology is constantly growing.

The Helmholtz Zentrum München is a member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres and is responsible for studying environmental health issues. As German Research Center for Environmental Health, it pursues the goal of developing personalized medical approaches for the prevention and therapy of major common diseases such as diabetes mellitus, allergies and lung diseases. To achieve this, it investigates the interaction of genetics, environmental factors and lifestyle.

livebau moves to its new location at the Helmholtz Zentrum München (Munich). From now on, four of our electrical engineers will be taking care of all matters related to the running of the electrical devices and systems at the research campus to guarantee flawless research processes.

We are very pleased to announce that only recently two new software features have been added to the mavacon dashboard. The new functions concerning the energy metering will be available for all users of mavacon:

• The new dashboard allows the grouping of Energy Pro Metering Gateways making it possible to monitor electrical systems components across several distributors; this new feature is now available for all of mavacon’s customers as a free update (if you wish to update, please contact service@livebau.eu)
• Electrical systems now can be checked based on historical consumption data: the comparison of current consumption curves with historical snapshots leads to conclusions about the plant condition which allows the system to send out warnings in case of an over- or underconsumption that would indicate malfunctions; this new feature can be purchased as a license package by all users of mavacon (if you wish to buy this feature, please contact service@livebau.eu)

Extreme sports pioneer Jochen Schweizer has created a spectacular venue for fun and business in the south of Munich, called the Jochen Schweizer Arena. The activities offered in the Arena turn the leisure park into the perfect place for everyone who wants to actively experience their free time. In September 2018, mavacon, brand of livebaus sister company preussen automation, took over the monitoring of all electrical systems in the Jochen Schweizer Arena in order to determine potentials for energy savings.

Besides the event and conference venue for corporate clients, the venue’s restaurant Schweizer's Kitchen and the outdoor area with a high ropes course and zip lines (Flying Fox XL Parcours), the highlights are the 30-metre high Bodyflying tunnel for indoor skydiving and the Citywave for indoor surfing.

The wave, which can rise to heights of 1.40 metres in a water depth of 120 cm at a water temperature of 24 - 26 °C, provides beginners, advanced learners and pros with the chance to practice. Thanks to its vortex-free air stream with up to 285 km/h, the cutting-edge vertical wind tunnel offers all visitors an authentic skydiving experience – similar to a minute of flying in a parachute jump from 4,000 metres.

Having all these energy-intensive activities in mind, sustainability is an important topic for Jochen Schweizer. For all attractions taking place on the fun complex, only state-of-the-art technologies are employed in order to use the energy needed as efficiently as possible.

Now the company of Jochen Schweizer wants to make the Arena even more energy efficient by using mavacon. The installation of mavacon metering sensors and the respective evaluation software mavacon e.cloud allows the collection of data that reflects the entire energy consumption. Due to the granular data analysis, potentials for energy savings can be detected to further optimize the system operation.

At EICMA 2018, the three companies livebau smart electric, Visionaries 777 and Johann Kuhn Exponate present their special solution for companies in the motorcycle industry to showcase their engines in a very unique way, by letting the exhibits merge with computer-generated information.

Kuhn designs the exhibits, Visionaries 777 provides the AR technology and livebau is in charge of the technical equipment needed. This is a unique opportunity for motorcycle manufacturers to effectively highlight their motorcycles and engines.

Like every year, EICMA, the biggest event in the world dedicated to 2 wheels, is back in Milan with its 2018 edition. Scheduled from 8 to 11 November, the most important top brands in the sector preview their latest innovations in biking for 2019. Not only can biking enthusiasts watch the world’s greatest motorcycle producers debut there new models, they also get offered an opportunity to see up close the national and international pilots of the most prestigious Off-Road disciplines. In addition, the visitors of EICMA will be guaranteed days of show, music, entertainment, with top-level racing competitions in a dedicated outdoor area being the absolute highlight.

Insider Navigation (INS), the first company that offers hardware independent Augmented Reality indoor navigation and AR Automation Ltd, a joint venture between Visionaries 777 Ltd and eventa AG bringing Augmented Reality to IoT, just announced a collaboration to create an innovative control and monitoring solution for the vertical farming industry. The companies will be demonstrating this innovative tool in the Visionaries 777 Booth #304 at AWE EU 2018.

“The increased complexity and size of indoor farms call for easy and intuitive automation system control and monitoring”, says Kirner. By collaborating with AR Automation Ltd it was possible to bring an easy-to-use solution into the vertical farming industry and help workers to easily navigate through the farms.

“By using the INS SDK, AR Automation can deliver a stable and accurate indoor tracking in a constantly changing environment, such as in vertical farms where plants are continuously growing and lighting is constantly changing”, says Nicolas Guyon, Co-Founder Visionaries 777 Ltd.

About Insider Navigation

INS is the first company that offers indoor navigation without the use of additional hardware. Their hardware agnostic AR indoor navigation enables precise 3D positioning, intuitive navigation and displaying the right 2D or 3D content at the right spot. They have developed a process and an easy-to-implement Software Development Kit (SDK) to make any venue recognizable for any device with a camera.

About AR Automation Ltd

AR Automation aims to bring Augmented Reality to IoT. By simply pointing at any connected device with any AR enabled hardware, users are able to control and monitor its functions. Their solution works for lighting, heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) and any connected appliances. It runs on mobiles, tablets and wearable devices. By using 3D mapping technology, AR Automation can offer a persistent AR experience in any physical space, transforming how we interact with the world.

About AWE EU 2018 (Munich, Germany)

AWE is a global XR community hosting the world's #1 AR+VR conference & expo in the USA, Europe & Asia. We will be hosting a collaboration at booth 304 in this conference.

Since September 2017, the Bundesliga football stadion has been illuminated in the club colours of the FCA. The exterior lighting of the WWK Arena was successfully implemented by livebau smart electric and has been monitored and managed by the light specialist since. The literal highlight of the stadion is the modern facade made of 135 intertwined LED light sticks of the company Zumtobel which now count 170 in total as livebau was asked to add 35 LED sticks. In addition, 38 facade floodlights light up the facade on a larger scale.

The LED light sticks, deliberately arranged in a certain way, open up the simple design of the exterior form of the arena and become a real eye-catcher. After winning a match, the entire façade – normally illuminated in the club colours red, green and white – is lit up in a vibrant green for the rest of the day.

The LED lighting is regulated through the system management cloud solution mavacon e.cloud and the functioning of all devices and lights is continuously monitored via metering. If a malfunction should occur and the lighting doesn’t work, it will be immediately detected and reported by the system. In addition, live images taken by a camera in front of the stadium are sent to the e.cloud to support the detection of system failures.

»With the mavacon e.cloud we have the possibility to check from the office whether the lighting of the WWK-Arena is working or not. By measuring the electricity consumption, we can watch the function of the luminaires and provide remote support in case of a malfunction.«

Stated Michael Boy, Lead Programmer of the company. Thanks to the user management and the decentralised cloud solution, external experts can be perfectly integrated into the project. Via secure VPN connections, a remote access to all data and applications is possible, irrespective of the location.

UBS, the Swiss global investment bank, is organizing the Smart Home/Office & Manufacturing 4.0 Expo in September 2018. This event aims to introduce leaders in Smart Technology to UBS Clients. The Joint Venture of Visionaries 777 and eventa AG, AR Automation Ltd., is presenting the AR Light app.

It will be a four-day expo (September 17th,19th – 21st ) themed as Smart Home/Office, elderly tech, manufacturing, hosted at UBS AG in Tsim Sha Tsui with 10,000 square feet of available space. Selected companies (more than 30 SmartTech innovators) will showcase their products to more than 1,000 UBS clients including business owners and investors. The Expo will also include a Speed Dating Event in which companies will be arranged to meet 1-on-1 with over 20 potential investors and business partners.

There will be a second Phase of the Smart Tech Expo from September 27th to November 8th to showcase SmartTech innovations to UBS clients.

Using Augmented Reality (AR), exhibits can be shown in a completely new light. Knowledge regarding the exhibits can be transmitted more efficiently and can be shown in a more attractive way – not least to convince the customer/potential buyer.

The three companies livebau smart electric, Visionaries 777 and Johann Kuhn offer a special service to companies that want to present their products in a very unique way - by letting the exhibits merge with computer-generated information (watch Video).

Kuhn designs the exhibits, Visionaries 777 provides the AR technology and livebau is in charge of the technical equipment needed. This is a unique opportunity for companies to effectively highlight their products. And with these three companies, they have a one-stop, full-range provider for this service.

Yeelight, the biggest competitor of Philips Hue when it comes to smart lighting control systems, is discussing the possibility of a cooperation with livebau in the field of Smart LED Light. The Chinese company is determined to overtake Philips Hue with its smart home lighting solution. Now Yeelight shows interest in the Augmented Reality Light App that livebau developed in cooperation with the AR specialist Visionaries 777. In combination with Yeelight’s smart LED bulbs, the AR Light app could become suitable for home use.

So far, the app  is mainly used in large buildings where the user benefits the most. The Facility Management of such large buildings normally has to guarantee the functioning of a lot of technical devices and luminaires. Given that one of the lights doesn‘t work anymore and the problem needs to be solved as soon as possible; pointing the smart phone/tablet camera at the broken light, the different functions of the luminaire can be checked to find out what needs to be fixed. At the same time, all the important product details about the light in question are displayed on the screen so it’s easy to order the replacement parts needed – without going through product catalogues or searching folders on the computer.

The smartphone/tablet camera recognizes the different lights based on a previous 3D scanning of the room. On the screen, the different options are displayed – turn on/off, dimming, colours – depending on what functions the light/device is programmed for.

The special feature of the AR Light App: Most of the time, when installing remote controls, the lights need to be equipped with a special control device that is responsible for the communication between light and control. The AR Light App doesn’t require an extra control device as the control commands are carried out through the central control unit, already programmed, accessing it via a wireless LAN. This way, the App can be used with any luminaire.

livebau smart electric teamed up with OSRAM to turn more opportunities into successes. OSRAM asked the German lighting specialist to participate in their Affiliate partner program knowing that livebau has a great knowledge of the lighting industry and a good network.

The topics of lighting solutions, smart city, IoT and other growth markets require joint efforts to be successful. This is why livebau and OSRAM joint forces: to share their light expertise, to support each other in local lighting projects and to provide additional marketing tools (e.g. for new product launches). OSRAM will have a strong strategic and service partner in livebau.

The FixtureDoc, our service center for repair and maintenance, will check the function of your devices and fix your faulty equipment. Wir repair your architectural luminaires, mixing consoles, digital and analogue amplifiers, 19-inch electronic equipment modules, electronic stage equipment and AV technology. Our services are not limited to the products of certain producers but we repair all types and brands of devices.

Our repair and maintenance services are based on the expertise of an in-house team with over 25 years of experience who undergo continuous training to update their skills and ensure a constant professional development. This allows our technicians to meet the high requirements for repairing complex special devices.

We are in close contact with most of the producers so that we can count on their expertise and support as well. I addition, livebau has recently become an official service partner of Harman Professional Solutions and will offer a high quality customer service for Martin by Harman products.

livebau smart electric has officially become a Service Partner of Harman Professional Solutions. As a Harman Pro »Service Center«, livebau will now provide a high quality customer service for Harman Pro products, more precisely for products of Martin by Harman, a world leader in dynamic lighting solutions for the entertainment, architectural and commercial sectors.

You will find our Service Center at www.livebau.eu/fixture-doc. The Fixture Doc is our repair service for special devices such as the Martin products that can only be fixed by an expert in this field.

For more information about our Fixture Doc Services, you can have a look at the website.

As a result of our Christmas fund-raising campaign, eventa AG and its subsidiary livebau handed over a cheque for € 2500 to the foundation Stiftung München. The money will go to the project Inside@School that helps students, parents and teachers deal with difficult issues like bullying, violence, social media, conflict management, peer pressure, low self-esteem, consumerism and addictive behaviour.

When a student can contact a trusted individual and notices that their fears and worries are taken seriously, most of the time they will open up making it possible to figure out a solution. It is very important that serious situations are identified as early as possible in order to stabilize a child or young person, to avoid further undesirable developments.

Each donation helps to support this good purpose: www.stiftung-muenchen.org/projekte/inside-school

The eventa group's subsidiaries with livebau smart electric being one of them, have been very committed to collecting plastic bottle tops – 500 bottle caps for a life without Polio. Poliomyelitis, more commonly referred to as polio, is an illness that has been completely eradicated in most places but it remains endemic in three countries: Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan. The association »Deckel drauf e.V.« (Put a lid on it), founded and organised by the Rotary Club, has certainly helped to stamp out this disease. It has set up a system across the whole of Germany that enables plastic bottle tops to be collected at supermarkets, kindergartens and schools. The lids are then sold to a plastics recycling facility and all proceeds are donated to the initiative »End Polio Now« with the goal to eradicate polio worldwide.

In the beginning we had planned on contributing to the project »Deckel gegen Polio« (bottle caps against Polio) for a limited period of time. However, we very quickly had collected more than 2000 bottle tops, thanks to our very committed employees. Because of this, we decided to continue with this good cause.

If you want to support the project as well, click here for more information: www.deckel-gegen-polio.de/projekte

Since September 2017, the stadium has been illuminated in the FC Augsburg club colours red, green and white. Now the WWK Arena, designated as »one piece of artwork« by Monika Nußbaumer, a member of the Board of Trustees, was awarded with the Prize for Architecture and Preservation of Monuments.

The literal highlight of the awarded building, designed by the architects Bernhard & Kögl from Augsburg, is the modern exterior made of intertwined tubes and LED light sticks. The illumination of the facade was successfully implemented by livebau smart electric and has been monitored and managed by the light specialist since.

All projects awarded by the Langner'sche Foundation were chosen because the architects went above and beyond to create a very special result. Along with the WWK Arena, two other buildings were awarded and received the prize money of € 5000.

livebau smart electric was pleased to see that there was a big interest at L&B in our product »AR Light« – an app that allows users to control any luminaire in the room by pointing their smart phone or tablet camera at it. In addition, important information like real time power consumption as well as the last maintenance check are displayed on the screen. This is possible thanks to the smart system management cloud solution »mavacon e.cloud« and 3D space mapping. As part of introducing Augmented Control, the two companies also presented the »interactive building «– 3D-visualization of a building that is thought to be an user-friendly alternative to traditional interfaces in future. With your finger, you navigate through the different rooms of the building and just click on the luminaire that you want to operate. This way, you only need to know where to find a certain device and you can already easily manage it and directly access important information.

The mavacon e.cloud platform offers an interface between the provider, the user and the actual electrical system itself, where all data like backups, analyses and reports can not only be managed in a clearly structured and transparent manner but also administered centrally at the object/device. Due to the digital twin technology and activated objects, the connected system can be directly controlled by using AR and a suitable hardware. Thus, updates and manual adjustments on the operated system can be easily carried out with the mavacon e.cloud. Altogether, the new cloud solution offers an easy management of complex electrical systems. Several systems can be regulated via one portal and managed in a clearly structured and transparent manner, regardless of location. A comprehensive management involving all components of the Internet of Things and the traditional bus technology is thus possible.

The system is already used for the illumination of the exterior facade of the WWK Arena, the German football stadium in Augsburg. Since September 2017, the stadium has been illuminated in the FCA club colors red, green and white. After winning a match, the entire facade is lit up in green for two days before switching back to its original colours. The LED lighting is regulated through the mavacon e.cloud and the device function is continuously monitored via metering. If a malfunction should occur and the lighting doesn’t work, it will be immediately detected and reported by the system. The mavacon e.cloud as well as the AR Light App were extremely well received by visitors at our booth.

livebau smart electric successfully carried out the technical realization of the exterior lighting of Osram Opto Semiconductors new main building in Regensburg, Germany. The HCL solution which is based on the most recent LED technology illuminates several floors with the help of 1634 luminaires.

The innovative lighting concept of the exterior facade is guided by the motto »The facade as a medium« because the illumination serves among other things to improve the employees' working conditions. The office lighting follows the Human Centric Lighting (HCL) concept according to which the light adjusts to the human biorhythm. Some years ago, scientists discovered a new class of light-sensitive cells in the retina which appear to reset the body's biological clock each morning and night. There is an ideal colour temperature value for humans at any time of the day. This is why HCL technology aims to provide the most beneficial lighting in accordance with the needs of human biorhythms.

Due to the new lighting system, artificial light can make up for natural light if the ideal value is not reached. Thus the risk of sleep and eating disorders, lack of energy or even depressions is reduced which enables a higher level of concentration and a better overall performance of the employees. Pre-programmed light curves and current values recorded by sensors adjust the lighting accordingly. When no one is present in certain rooms and office areas, the sensors automatically switch to energy-saving mode and dim the lighting. Other highlights include the linear lighting on the building contours and the indirect lighting of the windows illuminating the building in the corporate colour of orange at the onset of dusk.

• The highly granular data logging allows computer-based analyses and an automatic management, irrespective of available real-time system parameters.
• All data like backups, analyses and reports are displayed in a well-organised manner and can be managed centrally at the object/device.
• System components can be directly controlled from any location, due to a direct system integration based on virtualized modules.

livebau smart electric monitors and manages the exterior lighting of the WWK-Arena through the new system management cloud solution by mavacon named e.cloud. With the mavacon e.cloud, complex electrotechnical systems can be managed in a clearly structured and transparent manner, regardless of the location. From 18th to 23rd of March livebau demonstrated at the Light + Building 2018 trade fair how the e.cloud allows to manage different systems via one portal. A comprehensive management involving all components of the Internet of Things and the traditional bus technology is thus possible. The system is already used for the illumination of the external facade of the WWK Arena, the German football stadium in Augsburg. Since September 2017, the stadium is illuminated in the FC Augsburg club colors red, green and white. After winning a match, the entire facade is lit up in green for the rest of the day. The LED lighting is regulated through the mavacon e.cloud and the device function is continuously monitored via metering. If a malfunction should occur and the lighting doesn’t work, it will be immediately detected and reported by the system. In addition, live images taken by a camera in front of the stadium are sent to the e.cloud to support the detection of system failures.

»With the mavacon e.cloud we have the possibility to check from the office whether the lighting of the WWK-Arena is working or not. By measuring the electricity consumption, we can watch the function of the luminaires and provide remote support in case of a malfunction«, stated Michael Boy, Lead Programmer of the company. Thanks to the user management and the decentralised cloud solution, external experts can be perfectly integrated into the project. Via secure VPN connections, a remote access to all data and applications is possible, irrespective of the location. The mavacon e.cloud platform offers an interface between the provider, the user and the actual electrical system itself, where all data like backups, analyses and reports can not only be managed in a clearly structured and transparent manner but also administered centrally at the object/device. Due to the digital twin technology and activated objects, the connected system can be directly controlled by using AR and a suitable hardware. Thus, updates and manual adjustments on the operated system can be easily carried out with mavacon e.cloud.

»At this stage, the mavacon e.cloud solution combines the achievements of the last ten years given that it helps to make systems future-proof and a lot easier to manage. Whereas in the past, a high fragmentation was very common, today the overall integration allows the management of different systems via one portal«, stated Florian Felsch, CEO of eventa AG, the parent company of livebau smart electric.

• eventa AG to combine hardware & automation expertise with Visionaries 777 Augmented/Virtual reality software development know-how
• The joint venture partners each have a stake of 50 percent
• First demo project to be launched in Munich June 2018
• Joint venture agreement signed March 1, 2018
• Global launch of first combined patent pending solution to be showcased in Light & Building Frankfurt, April 18-23 Booth C16 hall 9.

Hong Kong/Munich, March 01, 2018 – Startup Visionaries 777 and electrical Systems investing expert eventa AG have officially launched a Euroasian Joint Venture, AR Automation Ltd, with their first product AR light. The revolutionary software combines the latest automation hardware & AR software with the aim of creating as a first step; an Augmented Reality lighting control system.

The Joint venture will focus on further developing the first software launched during the light and building fair in Frankfurt – March 2018. With the aim of re-inventing complex lighting automation systems, the software leverages computer vision, IOT and AR to create a real time virtual matrix compatible with the latest IOS devices. “This is the future, times of complex systems that added costs on installation and hardware combined with a poor user experience will be a thing of the past” stated Florian Felsch, Founder of eventa AG Munich during a private showcase of the technology in Visionaries 777 HQ.

The total solution package has been developed by engineers and software developers from both companies, sharing years of expertise, the pivotal moment has arrived as existing hardware from global manufacturers is becoming more dependable and stronger. “We chose Apple to create the first package as it’s a very robust system that can be acquired in every country. We were thinking of how to leverage that little computer we all carry in our pockets to accelerate usability and global deployment” stated Nicolas Guyon, founding parter of Visionaries 777.

The modularity of the software allows connectivity directly to luminaires or through automation systems already installed. Once installed, users can point and control an individual fixture. The system also visualizes real time consumption data and other information that could be relevant for maintenance purposes, it will also be connected with the System Management Cloud solution mavacon e.cloud introduced by the eventa AG invested company livebau GmbH in 2017.

“Innovation doesn’t happen over night; the Visionaries team was creating patents in Augmented Reality 9 years ago for global companies when the concept was still in its infancy. We have now a perfect partner that can channel our knowledge and put it to use in building technologies, this is very exciting indeed!” Was part of the speech David Castañeda, co-founder of Visionaries 777 gave in Hong Kong.

The building Automation and lighting industry have gone through massive leaps of change with the introduction on LEDs, this will be further accelerated with the use of Augmented reality and the IOT. “I still remember the first time I touched a light-bulb with LEDs and it didn’t burn, it was a mind blowing experience and a massive step forward in lighting. We now want users to have that feeling again, we want to empower them and bridge that connection between the physical & digital world with just the touch of a finger. This is what we do at Visionaries every day, and we are very excited to see our hard work and strong partnership with eventa AG give life to AR light for the world to enjoy” – Frantz Lasorne, Founding partner Visionaries 777 Hong Kong.

About eventa AG

eventa AG develops and finances enterprises in the technology sector as well as in the service industry. The company is owner-managed and was established in 2000. Its ventures are highly specialized and mainly supply products for home automation as well as audio-visual and professional multi-media system solutions. The company's headquarters are in Seeshaupt near Munich, Germany.