ENERGY
EyeNut offers energy savings and unrivalled control for indoor lighting
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echnological innovation is set to revolutionise the indoor lighting market by delivering significant energy savings, reductions in carbon emissions and unrivalled control of indoor lighting. EyeNut, a remarkable new lighting control solution, offers site managers and facilities directors the opportunity to seize control of their lighting systems, however complex their requirements or diverse their property portfolio.
INTRODUCING EYENUT EyeNut, Harvard Engineering’s new ingenious wireless indoor lighting control solution, is a powerful tool for any manager aiming to reduce energy costs and CO2
emissions without effecting
working practices or site operations. EyeNut allows for the monitoring and control of every individual luminary on the system, whether they are situated on one site or across multiple buildings, making it ideal for managers of diverse multi-use, multi-site estates.
This adaptable and customisable lighting control solution has a wide range of features to simplify the user experience, such as the creation of area groups and logical groups for detailed light management, as well as the ability to map lights on an imported image of a building layout, giving a complete overview of the lighting. All of this is controlled through the user friendly intuitive Graphic User Interface (GUI).
And the difficulties seen previously in commissioning early generation indoor lighting controls, such as DALI and analogue 1-10V, have been addressed by the new solution. By eliminating the need for specialist expertise to program the hardware, both at the installation and later re-commissioning stages, EyeNut offers substantial savings on consultancy fees The system can be easily incorporated into a new build or retrofitted into an existing site thanks to its simple and fast commissioning process. There is no need for rewiring as the system is wireless and can be worked remotely from a computer, laptop or tablet. EyeNut offers a completely flexible solution, managed entirely by the user, for any complex situation.
ENERGY SAVINGS
Lighting should play a crucial role in any business’s energy reduction strategy.
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It is the highest single contributor to commercial electricity consumption in the UK; accounting for 41% of all electricity used. Therefore lighting offers huge potential for cutting energy consumption across all sectors. Of all the controllable lighting sold in Europe at the present time 75% is not being controlled; however this situation is about to change with the considerable advances in lighting monitoring and control systems, such as EyeNut, that allow for lights to be controlled and monitored, maximising efficiency. There are few buildings, whatever their purpose, which need full light brightness 100% of the time in all areas. Facilities such as hospitals and schools are wasting light energy, and lots of it, by over lighting. By implementing a number of indoor lighting strategies simultaneously, such as daylight harvesting, dimming, time scheduling, load shedding and scene setting, EyeNut not only saves on energy costs but also helps to significantly reduce a site’s carbon footprint.
The EyeNut system is also designed to enable the gathering of detailed data to establish the energy consumed by groups of lights or individual luminaries throughout the estate. This data can then be used to create sophisticated energy ‘heat maps’ that allow site managers to gain a clear overview of total energy consumption.
With this energy monitoring capability and the facilities to control the output for all lights, either as groups or individually, managers have everything they need to devise and implement an energy reduction strategy whilst ensuring the optimum level of lighting for each task. By offering site managers and facilities directors the ability to control lighting by room, zone, building, as well as by time of day, to optimise light output and respond to detailed work requirements EyeNut is a powerful instrument in minimising energy usage, energy costs and the associated carbon emissions.
MULTI-SITE AND MULTI-BUILDING CONTROL CAPABILITIES
As technological developments in wireless networked control systems have combined with innovations in the software user interface it has enabled advancement in the level of data monitoring and analysis now offered by EyeNut. This benefits managers in a number of ways.
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The flexibility inherent in a wireless networked control system allows for the exciting possibility of multi-site or multiple-building control from a single point. Using the open protocol ZigBee mesh network EyeNut has an inbuilt protection against communication breakdown between two devices on the network. This robust protection eliminates any risk of compromise to existing IT network security. It is this technological step forward that has enabled the adoption of the wireless networked indoor lighting control system, not only making them flexible and adaptable when operational but also making them easier to install in the first place.
INTUITIVE USER INTERFACE The success of any lighting control solution will depend on the design and practicality of its user interface. Systems are becoming more complex in nature and more diverse and powerful in function. The design of both the physical interfaces to system input components including control panels, switches etc, and the Graphic User Interface (GUI’s) to system software will be instrumental in the success of any system’s user interface, and ultimately its overall success. This consideration is even more crucial as control applications become increasingly sophisticated, being web or cloud-based and data driven. The easy-to-use intuitive GUI, built into EyeNut, allows users to monitor the performance of lights throughout the system, in addition to the collection of energy consumption data, as well as being able to see the dim status of each light and predict lamp failure. This development is the result of technological advancements as the new generation of electronic control gear is equipped with RFID functionality, enabling engineers to scan in each luminaire using a RFID scanner, or through an App on a tablet or smartphone. This eliminates the need for specialist resources as the GUI enables rapid mapping of each recognised luminaire. It also speeds up one of the most time-consuming tasks associated with commissioning existing lighting control schemes, namely the recognition and addressing of individual units within the network.
By utilising this remarkable intuitive GUI it not only gives managers the tools to monitor energy usage and make quick decisions to enhance system performance day-by-day throughout their property
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