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Powering and controlling LED lights over a PoE network creates the opportunity to use the LED lights in new and novel ways. For example, with appropriate battery backup or emergency power generation that is already part of the network installation; PoE-based LED lighting can be instantly repurposed and used to provide important lighting during a power outage without the need for a specialized, secondary lighting system. The LED lighting can be used for more than just emergency lighting. It can also be used to communicate important and possibly dynamically changing information to building occupants, such as to show the safe exit paths out of the building, or indicate areas of the building to avoid if the LED lighting can be commanded to change color by an LED controller already installed in the PoE network.
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