Firenze, Italy, February 2024 – For the first time, KSCAPE will bring RAIL to Light + Building 2024 – a pioneering technology that confidently merges innovative lighting and professional audio into one unique, elegant and easy to control product.
Showcased on Booth 3.1 F22, RAIL seamlessly harmonises attractive, tunable light with professional quality sound into a single, sleek 1.2m linear aluminium frame. RAIL is the world’s first architectural lighting system to feature completely integrated professional audio and can be deployed in video conferencing rooms, museums, training facilities and residential projects where high-quality sound and illumination are essential. Using RAIL can significantly reduce labour and wiring costs but also provide a more sustainable result.
Visitors to the Booth can see how RAIL offers tunable white that enables designers to significantly improve interior environments with lighting that can be automated to enhance physical and mental wellbeing, attentiveness and productivity. Light can be programmed to follow the natural circadian patterns of daylight with dynamic LEDs that can illuminate from 2700K to 5000K; softly rising in the morning, gradually brightening to a midday peak, then dipping down to a warm glow in the evening.
“RAIL is a transformational lighting solution that completely satisfies the senses,” explains Tom Ríby, Global Marketing Manager at KSCAPE. “Light and sound act in perfect harmony within just the one device. This innovation liberates the designer to think differently about internal spaces, create new moods and experiences and extends the range of possibilities and applications for a perfectly integrated, aesthetically attractive solution.”
RAIL lighting can be controlled through a 24V switch, on-board DALI or Casambi’s wireless bluetooth technology. It can also be connected seamlessly into the internal smart building automation system, such as, Q-SYS, Crestron, Lutron, Control 4, KNX, Savant or Kramer via a remote gateway. KSCAPE can provide the ultimate ‘plug n play’ light and audio solution when combining RAIL with the K-array Kommander-KA04 amplifier with 4x 150W channels at 4Ω, the KA14 or the KA28 capable of providing high quality sound via cloud technology.
Recent installations of RAIL in corporate workplaces are a testament to the effectiveness of the technology. These include the offices of leading K-ARRAY USA headquarters, Pavion, Armstrong Ceilings HQ in Pennsylvania, the Cleveland Museum, The Ranch in Montauk NY, Softbank in California, TAD (Technology Architecture Design) in New York, and the corporate offices of JLL Singapore, part of the most significant Platinum WELL-certified buildings globally, Capita Spring
Constructed using premium quality materials and equipment that can be recycled or reused right after the show, the KSCAPE Booth at Light + Building allows visitors to experience RAIL in an environment where every note and hue intertwine to create a textured symphony.
KSCAPE is a brand of K-array, the renowned manufacturer of innovative pro audio solutions with global headquarters in Florence, Italy. Founded in 1990, the company invests its 33 years of knowledge, passion and resources in the revolutionary design and manufacture of highly efficient, ultra-compact, innovative, audio-based solutions that produce unparalleled performance to meet the challenges faced by consultants, designers, integrators and sound engineers today.