Gantri just reinvented the wireless light. Now you can, too

"Designed in collaboration with the design studio Ammunition, the three product lines are the first wireless lights to use Gantri's Helia system, a modular approach to the components inside a wireless light. Also designed by Ammunition, this system consists of a battery, customizable LED modules, a touch-sensitive control, and a charging puck. The guts of the system can be tucked inside almost any shell a designer can imagine."

""All these components get assembled into a 3D printed enclosure, and everything is routed where it needs to be," says Achille Biteau, director of industrial design at Ammunition. "It simplifies things a lot because all of a sudden you have that same platform that can be used on a range of designs. It could be in the hundreds or the thousands of designs.""

""They're very dim, they're very small, they're not really fully fledged, like residential full-power products," Yang says. But, he thought, they could be. That instinct led to three new wireless lighting product lines being released this week by Gantri, alongside a new digital manufacturing platform that will make it easier for other designers to create their own take on the wireless light."

"Gantri and Ammunition have worked together since about 2018, and first started thinking about wireless lighting design three years ago. "We were just talking a lot about mobility and portable lighting and this idea that, well, people are very used to mobile things and charging has become just part of lifestyle," says Robert Brunner, founding partner of Ammunition."

A portable light for reading menus inspired a wireless lighting opportunity. Gantri released three wireless lighting product lines and a digital manufacturing platform to help other designers create similar products. The new lights use Gantri’s Helia modular system, built from a battery, customizable LED modules, a touch-sensitive control, and a charging puck. The system’s components can be routed into a 3D printed enclosure that fits many different shell designs. Collaboration with Ammunition focused on mobility and charging as part of everyday lifestyle, contrasting with lighting that has remained fixed and tethered. The platform aims to support large numbers of design variations.

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