Commercial Lighting Control Systems
Lighting control solutions play an integral role in setting the lighting in a room or building to meet your exact needs. In commercial buildings, it is essential for the lighting to create a safe and secure environment while providing a convenient, flexible, cost-effective and energy-efficient solution that delivers advanced health and comfort for its occupants.
Creating a successful lighting design
To achieve a successful lighting design, SmartCore is a superior, energy-efficient lighting control system that has been expertly designed with sustainability, flexibility and cost-effectiveness in mind. We do recognise that it isn’t necessarily the most exciting aspect of a smart building, it is, however, an extremely important component that if installed correctly, will be fundamental to the overall success of a project with the capability to benefit every other service within a building.
SmartCore can seamlessly integrate with pretty much any sensor, device or system within a building. This is vital to achieve full connectivity throughout, creating dynamic experiences that react to occupants’ needs. The interoperable solution is easy to install and makes use of the latest intelligent technology to deliver a system that significantly reduces the time and cost of setting up and commissioning smart lighting.
SmartCore is able to manage each light's colour, intensity, and location in every individually controlled space or room. A dynamic engine at the heart of the system continuously manages the required light settings for each space which are then adjusted by real-time data from sensors, other control commands, or third-party systems such as BMS (Building Management System).
The versatile nature of SmartCore means it can be deployed as a basic lighting control solution that cost-effectively manages the illuminated experience, or instead as a solution to a complex multi-functional software that connects all devices and systems, aggregating data which is then passed on to a third-party analytics system or to the cloud for secure easy access.
Removing the need for outdated and complex rule-based programming, SmartCore enables real-time changes and delivers true added value for smart building integration with lighting. Its user-friendly interface can be adapted to your needs, displaying real-time lighting control information that is relevant to you. The complexity can be adapted dependent on the user and controls can also be restricted for certain user groups if required.
SmartCore is a highly scalable IP-based solution that can be installed in a room, building, or city as an on or off-premises solution whilst being monitored globally. This interoperable and maintenance-free solution turns buildings into intelligent spaces, integrating with lighting protocols such as: DALI, wireless, PoE, BLE, Zigbee, CoAp, MQTT, and many more. Offering longevity. new protocols and device types can be added easily to ensure the system is futureproofed. Pricing is determined by the size of the project, so you only pay for what you need.
Meeting occupant requirements – Circadian Lighting
Traditionally all elements of a building were disconnected, costly, and time-consuming to operate and fix, while today’s building occupants require an effective and easy to use solution. SmartCore’s smart, yet simplified, lighting control system works in the background to make it easy for buildings to increase their energy efficiency with one cohesive, connected system. Working hours, people's presence in the workplace and above all, daylight are central components to open up a wide range of efficiency saving opportunities. Contributing to a reduction in CO2 emissions will enable buildings to achieve the optimum environmental certification.
As demand increases for improved occupant wellbeing across all building types, circadian lighting offers the ideal solution. To some degree, we are all governed by our internal body clock or our ‘circadian cycle’; light is one of the biggest synchronises, and timing, intensity, and colour of light are all key factors in regulating human circadian cycles and our sleep and wake patterns. Disturbances in the circadian rhythm can have a physiological and mental impact and can ultimately contribute to poor sleep patterns.
SmartCore’s sophisticated algorithm controls the direction, timing, intensity, colour, and wavelength of light in every space, making it ideal for circadian lighting applications, such as commercial use in care homes, offices, and schools.
How it works
SmartCore provides all of the functions and options you would expect including: dimming, fading, light scenes, intensity, daylight linking for energy-saving and supports many different switch types. Examples include 1-10V Dimming which is one of the simplest electronic lighting control signalling systems whereby the control signal is a DC voltage that varies between 1 and 10, whilst the “Digital Addressable Lighting Interface” (DALI) is used for communication between lighting control devices, such as electronic ballasts, brightness sensors or motion detectors.
With our new DALI emergency solution, building owners will be able to run automatic emergency luminaire tests remotely via the same platform as their standard luminaires. SmartCore’s emergency lighting module simplifies the traditional and old-fashioned process by working with smart emergency lighting to provide status feedback, testing, scheduling, and reporting to ultimately deliver cost savings. With the addition of new features, remote diagnostics and troubleshooting, SmartCore successfully reduces associated site visit costs.
Our well trusted dimmable controls and sensor-receptive functionality allows us to utilise the latest IoT technology to create not only amazing lighting control systems, but also truly sophisticated, smart buildings. Offering a wealth of benefits to owners, specifiers and contractors, including dynamic scheduling to automate certain processes, SmartCore manages lighting experiences that change over time in response to sensor data and according to building needs.
Most recently, SmartCore played an instrumental role in the complete renovation of Georgia Pacific’s headquarters, located in Atlanta USA. Johnson Controls led the project for one of the world's leading manufacturers of tissue, pulp, paper, packaging, and building products, integrating Molex’s CoreSync IoT network platform, powered by amBX SmartCore building management system lighting control system. This enabled Georgia Pacific to achieve optimal integration, functionality, maintenance costs, and efficiency among the various lighting, HVAC, audio/visual and room scheduling systems throughout each floor. Read the case study in full here: https://www.ambx.com/georgia-pacific