LifeSpace Solutions lighting control, DALIcontrol

Challenges

Government legislation:
Never before has it been so important for commercial buildings to be energy efficient.
No building can be too green.
And as we enter a new era of green building ratings and government legislation, no specifier, consultant or facilities manager today can afford to overlook the many advantages of a DALI lighting control system in the commercial office space.

Modular wiring and flexible configuration:
These benefits include energy savings with integrated occupancy and light level sensors.
Users also benefit with local manual control and preset scenes, whilst installers can leverage the ease of modular wiring and flexible configuration and programming option.

Integrate lighting control with emergency and exit lighting:
In addition, commercial clients are looking to integrate lighting control with emergency and exit lighting, as well as security and HVAC systems on one network, to enable simple and effective monitoring of the building’s services status at all times.

Achieving energy savings:
The ability to control and monitor lighting means that lighting control plays a critical role in determining and achieving energy savings.
This needs to be followed up with systematic reporting to confirm those efficiencies.
The sum of these parts literally creates a thinking building that can be tuned to the specific needs of each and every commercial environment.

Maximising energy efficiencies:
Maximising energy efficiencies in all new commercial buildings is a genuine global requirement that has given rise to standards created throughout the world including LEED3 (USA), NABERS (Australia), Greenbuildings EPBD or EN15193 (Europe), Green Building Council (China) and BEAM (Hong Kong).
By making your building project as energy smart as possible, you are creating a commercial space designed to meet world class recognised standards, which will attract more Government and corporate tenants.

Solutions

Uniquely flexible approach:
The DALIcontrol system provides by its very architecture; a uniquely flexible approach to floor plan control.
The system gives the designer a wide degree of flexibility in zone definition and control strategy.
This allows final decisions on control strategy to be made much later in the design process.
This is when more certainty is established around actual use profile, based upon the real tenants who will occupy the space.

Precise control for individual task lighting:
The clear driving force today in lighting control is to make the best use of the energy consumed by the building under design.
A key area for potential energy savings, and therefore a focus for legislators, is lighting provision. It may be as simple as proper timed control, the use of sensors and
dimming technology for daylight harvesting or precise control for individual task lighting.

Easily configured system:
The DALIcontrol system by Clipsal provides all of these functions and many more within a simple to use and easily configured system.
This gives greater flexibility to select implementation strategies to best fit user and legislative requirements.

Deliver significant savings:
Obviously a clear driver is the overall cost of the installed system. Simple logic will allow anyone to understand that a single system, which can integrate the monitoring and reporting of emergency lights and fittings with the general office lighting control will deliver significant savings over two separate systems.

Value Proposition

Cutting edge lighting control:
The DALIcontrol system by Clipsal not only provides cutting edge lighting control for commercial lighting requirements but also within the same single system structure, a fully compliant emergency lighting monitoring and reporting solution to International Standards, including AS/NZS 2293.

Reside upon Ethernet:
Ethernet is ubiquitous in commercial buildings. The ability for DALIcontrol products to reside upon Ethernet and make use of the existing infrastructure as its primary backbone both simplifies and reduces system cost. DALIcontrol products are fully compliant to the DALI international open lighting control protocol IEC 62386.

Soft wired for greater cost effectiveness:
DALIcontrol’s cabling requirements can be enhanced by flexible wiring solutions.
The cable management range includes all soft-wiring accessories, busbar trunking as well as a range of unique power and data accessories with customised solutions – perfectly suited to today’s office workspace.

The advantage of this “plug and play” system is to simplify installation and commissioning. The five-pin soft-wiring system reduces labour costs and the distributed architecture enables sections to be tested and commissioned ready for the tenant as each area is installed. A soft wiring solution offers a quick and efficient method of connectivity and installation of light fittings.

DALIcontrol’s soft wiring five-pole system provides all power and DALIcontrol requirements in one convenient five-core cable. This reduces cabling and installation costs and enables easy connection and disconnection of luminaires, emergency fittings and exit signs.

The ultimate flexibility:
Alterations or additions are easy to achieve as the installation can be reused over and over, saving you money and downtime.
Our case studies show that the use of soft wiring systems offer advantages to the electrical contractor, with installation time savings of up to 55%.
This coupled with the commissioning flexibility of the DALI system, satisfies the varying demands of commercial lighting designs where many last minute layout changes occur, offering measurable labour savings.

Differentiation Factors

Extensible design:
Changing tenancies, future expansion and new features are easily catered for using the DALIcontrol system.
The extensible design of the system means that control groups can typically be reconfigured at any time without alterations to wiring.

Late differentiation:
For lighting designers it can often be challenging to precisely define the full control strategy for a given area before the tenant takes occupancy.
The DALIcontrol solution lends itself to late differentiation in design, allowing the control strategy to be configured much later in the install process when the overall installation is more finalised.

Configuration based approach:
The DALIcontrol system lends itself to templated programming techniques, significantly reducing time to configure against more conventional lighting control solutions.
The configuration based approach of the system sets it apart from other products that require specific codes to be written to define individual control behaviour, allowing installer and even enduser to define late changes in behaviour.

Rapid deployment:
The DALIcontrol commissioning wizard aids with the first commissioning phase.
Creating rapid deployment and establishment of basic control during the installation phase is essential to obtaining beneficial use of the lighting installation.
The wizard also greatly improves the process of replacing fittings where necessary.

Complementary and compatible products:
Given that DALI is an open standard in lighting control, there are many manufacturers producing complementary and compatible products, particularly for building management, these include: BACnet and LON gateways.
There are also capable integrations available with other open lighting standards including DMX and DSI.

“Plug and play” compatibility:
Many of the proprietary solutions available on the market also provide integration to DALI, including of course, Clipsal C-Bus.
This “plug and play” compatibility provides you with the opportunity to create one platform to build a true integrated building solution, including climate control, security, access and more.
This does away with the need for multiple systems running in parallel. Instead, you can design one cohesive and streamlined system with master control.

Architecture