Technology Integration Offers the Smart Building Industry a Unified Control Platform
amBX has partnered with Xicato, the leading provider of Bluetooth smart building wireless controls and the highest quality spot and linear light sources.
The integration of the amBX SmartCore lighting control software with the Xicato Intelligent Gateway opens up new opportunities for specifiers, designers and installers of smart lighting systems, uniting two highly innovative solutions into one single platform. The promise of intelligent, fully integrated hardware and smart control allows interoperability with other systems such as building management solutions, security and access control.
Wireless connected Xicato devices can now be used with the powerful SmartCore lighting software system, reporting and visually representing operational data from devices and data from sensors as well as other devices on the network in real-time. Fine, highly granular lighting control by room, floor, building, and campus is realised, combined with dynamic real-time data aggregation across the whole lighting network and fine colour point control via SmartCore’s highly innovative Circadian Engine.
Xicato and SmartCore, in partnership, delivers new levels of control, with complete data aggregation in a solution that is fast and easy to commission, offering real cost savings over many traditional lighting control solutions. It offers actionable data, allowing clients to manage and make rapid decisions on their assets.
Utilising the amBX suite of dashboards provides a user-friendly front-end that is flexible and customisable. This can also be white labelled allowing it to be branded in end customers colours, logos etc.
The latest release of SmartCore included Smart Emergency Lighting Control. This new feature provides smart testing where users can input data, schedule, automate and view emergency lighting fixture tests ensuring the building remains compliant. You can learn more about it here.
Benefits:
Works alongside other lighting types and protocols – Unified platform
Eliminates the need for separate control systems
Unifies lighting control and data aggregation
Enables easier integration of Xicato for smart buildings
Very tight colour point control via SmartCore, allowing fine-tuning of the colour spectrum
Manages all the lighting control for the XIG network
SmartCore offers light-scenes, circadian lighting, events can be scheduled and automated, data can be converged into one central source
Instantly deployable
Unifies control of Xicato products on standard open API, which can also be used for other products/protocols
SmartCore software future-proofs hardware
Allows BACnet objects to be used directly in SmartCore
Enables easy use of Xicato modules alongside other products
Easier/lower cost commissioning CatA to CatB
Lower cost of integration
smart emergency lighting control providing the ability to automate testing and reporting
Customisable UI’s
“Wireless connected Xicato devices can now be used with the powerful amBX SmartCore lighting software system delivering reporting and visually representative operational data in real-time. Additionally, amBX’s recent addition of smart emergency lighting control to their product suite is a further benefit as this functionality is a highly popular request from Xicato’s worldwide customers.”
