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Efficiency and Energy Savings with Networked Lighting Control

consumption and high system longevity without maintenance.
LIGHTIFY Pro targets professional applications with installations of
up to 100 light points, such as offices. The Home version is for domestic
applications with up to 50 light points.
Philips also offers solutions for both the home and professional sectors.
Its wide portfolio of products for lighting control ranges from simple wall
dimmers to intelligent sensors and the most advanced management and
lighting control software. The Philips Dynalite series is among the most
widely deployed, with thousands of installations worldwide. It includes
a complete set of lighting control devices and is available in a wireless
version, based on the Zigbee protocol, that offers all the benefits of an
intelligent control system without the need for extra wiring.
Figure 2 shows a completely remotely controllable sensor in the
Dynalite series. Dynalite sensors combine motion detection, light level
Figure 2: A Dynalite sensor for wall mounting (Image: Philips) detection, and IR reception in a single unit controlled by a microcontroller.
Lutron Electronics, another leader in lighting control systems, offers
products ranging from dimmers and switches to turnkey solutions for
Optimal, customized lighting characteristics managing entire buildings. The Lutron LCP128 lighting control system
With the ability to control the light level, spatial brightness, and hue integrates the control of all lighting circuits, both on/off and dimma-
of the lighting in a space, users are able to set their own local lighting ble, both internal and external, in a single, simple operating system.
preferences. The circuits can be activated automatically based on daily programs or
manually through intuitive wall devices.
Support for the B-IoT infrastructure The LCP128 system is ideal for small business installations such as
Potentially, each lighting device can integrate a series of sensors that restaurants, shops, spas, and recreation centers. ■
can monitor different physical aspects in real time.
Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio is a staff correspondent at AspenCore,
NETWORKED LIGHTING SOLUTIONS editor of Power Electronics News, and editor-in-chief of EEWeb.
OSRAM’s LIGHTIFY solution is an innovative intelligent lighting con-
trol system with wireless functionality. Operators and occupants can
use a smartphone or tablet to program LIGHTIFY ceiling lights as well
as lamps, switches, pushbutton couplers, sensors, or entire LIGHTIFY
systems via the network. As shown in Figure 1, the wireless interface Rethink everything you know
used by the devices is based on the Zigbee standard, and the control
systems connect to them via a gateway. about power supplies.
Zigbee is a standard for wireless data transmission developed specif-
ically to manage short messages, such as those required by smart-home
the new DIGITAL
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