March 18, 2020

The Ticking Data Bomb:
 How easily can your lighting system be hacked?

By Richard Cadena
 LS&A Digital Edition, February 2020

Robert Bell makes a humorous point about a serious situation at the LDI Show, November 2019

One minute, your lighting system is working fine, and you're happily triggering one cue after another. The next minute, you lose control of the entire system. The lights start flashing randomly, and there's nothing you can do to regain control. Your worst nightmare has been realized; your lighting system has been hacked.

That's what happened at LDI, except it wasn't really a hacker; it was a demonstration that Robert Bell, Director of Product Innovation at Pathway Connectivity, put together.

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