Coordinated Control Overview

Coordinated Control Overview

What is Coordinated Control?

Coordinated Control utilizes the light fixture or control device occupancy-sensors to activate non-occupancy-sensing and occupancy-sensing lighting in concert - entirely wirelessly.

Coordinated Control is a novel lighting control strategy for use in commercial and industrial lighting applications. In industrial environments, where illumination of equipment or travel ways is crucial to worker safety, Coordinated Control ensures that those workstations or aisles are illuminated immediately based on ingress into that space. This ensures that safety is not compromised, all while using intelligent controls to maximize energy savings in the surrounding areas.

In an office environment, Coordinated Control increases employee comfort and safety. By coordinating lighting nodes across an open office ingress point or hallway, the lighting across the space will activate, ensuring proper illumination overhead and in the surrounding area.
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Coordinated Control is only available to Admin level users.
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Please visit Configuring Coordinated Control for guidance on how to setup Coordinated Control.

How Coordinated Control Works

An admin user selects one or more Trigger Nodes (occupancy sensors) to form a Trigger Group. In order for the group to be triggered, a configurable threshold number of nodes must detect occupancy. Multiple Trigger Groups can be created to trigger one or more Coordination Nodes (occupancy-sensing or not). Once the Trigger Group(s) have sensed occupancy that meets or exceeds their threshold, the associated Coordination Nodes will move to their active level. Further customization can be made to specify whether All of the Groups must be triggered to trigger coordination nodes, or if Any one of the Groups should trigger the coordination nodes.

In addition to controlling lighting and controls with integrated occupancy sensors, Coordinated Control can support the control & activation of sensorless lighting control nodes using the SCN-CLM.

Coordinated Control Examples

Aisle of Occupancy Sensing Nodes
Task Tune settings:


Coordinated Control Settings:

Behavior:
  1. If any of the Trigger Nodes at the aisle entrances detect occupancy, the entire aisle will change to their active level (80%)
  2. After all Trigger Nodes are in the inactive occupancy state for 30 seconds, all nodes in the aisle dim to their inactive level (20%)*
  3. After no nodes in the aisle detect occupancy for 10 min, all nodes in the aisle dim to their automatic Setback level (0%)
*If any of the Coordination Nodes detect occupancy while the Trigger Nodes are inactive, the individual Coordination Nodes will move to active/inactive levels based on the Task Tune settings. Only Trigger Nodes affect the entire aisle’s unified activation.
Room, Office or Workstation
Task Tune settings:

Coordinated Control Settings:

Behavior:
  1. Activating any Trigger Node in the room will activate the entire room to its active level (80%)
  2. After all Trigger Nodes are in the inactive occupancy state for 10min (Coordinated Control Timeout), all nodes in the room dim to their inactive level (20%)*
  3. After all nodes don’t detect occupancy for 30min, all nodes in the room dim to their Automatic Setback level (0%)

*If any of the Coordination Nodes detect occupancy while the Trigger Nodes are inactive, the individual Coordination Nodes will move to active/inactive levels based on the Task Tune settings. Only Trigger Nodes affect the entire aisle’s unified activation.
Multiple Trigger Groups
Task Tune settings:


Coordinated Control Settings:

Behavior:
  1. Trigger Group 1 consists of sensors in the Cold Storage Warehouse in the vicinity of the door that opens to the Travel Aisle. Trigger Group 2 consists of sensors in the Loading Dock area.
  2. Activating any either of the Loading Dock or Cold Storage Trigger Groups will set all nodes in the Travel Aisle to their active level (80%)
  3. After all Trigger Groups are in the inactive occupancy state for 5 minutes, all nodes in the aisle dim to their inactive level (20%)*
  4. After all Travel Aisle nodes do not detect occupancy for 10 min, all nodes in the Travel Aisle dim to their Automatic Setback level (0%)
*If any of the Coordination Nodes detect occupancy while the Trigger Nodes are inactive, the individual Coordination Nodes will move to active/inactive levels based on the Task Tune settings.

Frequently Asked Questions

What happens to nodes using Coordinated Control during a network outage?
  1. Any occupancy sensing lights activated by coordinated control will return to their normal active/inactive levels.
  2. Non-occupancy-sensing nodes will revert to their active levels if they lose communication with the network.

Can Coordination Nodes and Trigger Nodes belong to multiple Coordinated Controls?
  1. Yes. The individual Coordinated Controls behave as expected per their Trigger Nodes’ trigger criteria.
Can I create a Coordinated Control across lighting networks?
  1. Yes! No gateway restrictions!



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