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Lighting controls, experienced virtually

Run a real lighting control system.
No showroom, no hardware.

BandGap is a simulator: photorealistic environments with a live control network underneath. Open the control app, commission the room, build groups and scenes, take it apart and put it back – from wherever you are, with nothing to ship and nothing to break.

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Office live today, with a control app that works the way the Casambi app works. More rooms and control systems coming.

Office live now · Familiar if you know Casambi · Photorealistic simulation · Built by BandGap
Why BandGap

The light is decided before it exists.

In a semiconductor, the band gap is the energy an electron gives up when it falls from the conduction band to the valence band. That drop is the photon, and the width of the gap sets its color — a wider gap, a bluer light. The gap is fixed before any current flows: the light is decided before it exists.

That is where BandGap works. It is a simulator of the whole lighting system — the fixtures, the controls, the app in your hand — running on a photoreal room. You experience the space through light before anything is installed.

Environments

Find the space that feels like yours.

Every environment is a real, controllable room. We're launching with the Office, commissioned the way Casambi users commission. A bare Test Room is next; more rooms and control systems follow.

● Live now

Office

Workstations, linears, pendants, conference – two camera views, seven scenes, a 24-hour schedule, and the physical switches beside the room.
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Test Room

A bare room with nothing but what light and controls need: a grid of fixtures, windows, a door, a switch and visible sensors. Built for training, and for comparing control systems side by side.

Planned
HospitalityRetailArt & CultureEducation WorshipHealthcareResidentialOutdoor
How it works

Everything the app does – on a room, not a spec sheet.

The same controls a commissioner uses on-site, running on a space that looks like the one you're designing. Change something, and the room changes with you.

Conference view, Focus scene
Focus – the working light, 8 a.m.
Conference view, Color Pop scene
Color Pop – the same room, the same fixtures, one scene later.

The room is rendered once in clay – a neutral gray – so every color you see is computed live from the light itself, not painted on. That is what makes the simulation exact.

Control every luminaire

Dim, tune white, or set any color – per fixture, per group, or all at once.

See it photoreal

Watch light change on the actual room, not a diagram – the room view, brought to life.

Build scenes & schedules

Create scenes, animations and circadian schedules exactly as you would on-site.

Learn as you go

Guided walkthroughs teach the app while you explore – no manual required.

Training mode

Learn commissioning by doing, not reading.

Interactive lessons sit right on top of the rendered room. Specifiers, installers, and end users can learn commissioning, grouping, and scene-building hands-on – the same steps Casambi users take, and a companion to any controls training.

  • › Step-by-step overlays guide each action
  • › Practice on a live room with no hardware to break
  • › Great for onboarding teams, clients, and reps

Training a team? See BandGap for trainers →

Animation: the Build and Save a Scene lesson - open a group, set brightness and white, go to Scenes, add a scene, name it and save it.

The lessons live inside the Office. Open the Office demo and press Learn in the top bar – the first lesson takes two minutes.

From the studio

We got tired of watching good lighting get value-engineered away.

For three decades I've helped lighting and smart-technology brands tell their stories. In that time I've watched the same thing happen on project after project: a thoughtful lighting scheme gets value-engineered away, because the client can't picture what they're paying for. A rendering on a page doesn't let you feel the difference between 2700K and 4000K, or what a scene does to a room at dusk.

So I built the thing I wished existed: step inside the design and touch it, using the exact controls that will run the space once it's installed. The Office is where we started. It isn't where we intend to stop.

– Adam Lenio, founder

About the founder

Adam Lenio is the founder of Art, Design & Marketing (AD&M), a Rochester, NY studio working in brand strategy, 3D visualization and product launch. His client history runs through the lighting and controls industry – Legrand North America, Vantage, Wattstopper, Pass & Seymour, On-Q, QMotion – alongside work for Kodak, Canon, ASSA ABLOY and Vuzix. He designed the brand and launch story for a CES Best of Innovations winner in home networking, holds a BFA from Alfred University, and has been building photorealistic product visualization in KeyShot for over a decade.

BandGap is not client work. It is a separate, patent-pending platform he designed, built and operates himself – the render pipeline, the compositing engine and the control integration are his own – developed as a standalone product for the lighting industry rather than as a service offered by the studio.

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Who it's for.

The Office is the proof. Here is what BandGap does for the people who make, sell, specify and teach lighting control. Pick the one that fits and tell us about it.

Controls brands

Your control app, running a real room.

A hosted, hands-on demo of your system for sales, training and support. Built with your approval.

For brands → Product makers

Your fixtures and keypads, lit in context.

Luminaires, wall stations and sensors working inside photoreal rooms, on your product pages.

For product makers → Training

Teach commissioning on a room, not a slide.

Every learner gets their own room and lessons that check each step. No kits to ship.

For trainers → Designers & projects

Your client walks through the light first.

A controllable simulation of your actual project, every scene and every hour, shared as a link.

For designers → Rep agencies

Hold your territory on BandGap.

One agency per territory: a demo in every rep's pocket, and the project inquiries from your area.

Pick your territory →

Start in the Office. Imagine the rest.

Experience the full control app on a photoreal room right now – and be first to know as new environments launch.

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