Instruction Manual

14 Installation for the Street Lighting Solution

Step 1: Install the Segment Controller

Configure the Segment Controller (see Chapter 3, Setting Up the Segment

Controller, on page 23) and install it at any convenient location for the street

lighting solution. For example, you can install it on one of the street light poles

or utility poles (typically below the neutral space) within the area for the street

lighting solution. Ensure that the Segment Controller has power.

Place the Segment Controller into Acquisition Mode; see Automatically

Discovering Devices on page 27. While in Acquisition Mode, the Segment

Controller continually attempts to discover devices (luminaires and CRD 3000

Street Light Bridge modules) on the power line network. In Acquisition Mode,

the Segment Controller’s Service LED flashes at 4 Hz.

As the Segment Controller establishes communications with each luminaire and

commissions it, the Segment Controller turns the lamp off.

Note that if you install luminaires first, all of the lamps within the network stay

on until you install the Segment Controller. Some installations might require

several days of installation time, so some of the lamps could remain on for one or

more days.

Recommendation: For installations in which the luminaires are managed by

monitoring software (such as Streetlight.Vision Data Collect) and have group

switching established, install the Segment Controller during the day so that the

schedule defined by the monitoring software can specify the luminaire’s behavior

(that is, the schedule should specify that lamps are off during the day) as the

Segment Controller establishes communications with each luminaire. Thus, you

can receive visual confirmation that the Segment Controller has established

communications with each luminaire.

When all of the lamps are off, the installation is complete. For any that do not

turn off, proceed to Step 3 to install CRD 3000 Street Light Bridge modules; the

Segment Controller will discover and commission the installed luminaires

through the CRD 3000 Street Light Bridge modules.

Step 2: Install Luminaires

Install one or more luminaires. Each luminaire’s lamp should turn on to indicate

that it has power.

Allow the Segment Controller to discover and commission each installed

luminaire. If you install the luminaires before the Segment Controller, record

each luminaire’s physical location and Neuron ID so that you can enter this

information into the Segment Controller Device Web page for each luminaire.

For example, record the luminaire’s GPS coordinates, pole ID, or map grid

reference.

If you install the Segment Controller before any of the luminaires, the Segment

Controller will discover and commission each luminaire as it is installed. If a

given lamp does not turn off within approximately two minutes, you should

This behavior is defined by the luminaire’s LonMark

interoperable profile. The Segment

Controller updates the primary data point for the luminaire during device commissioning; for a

luminaire’s LonMark profile, the primary data point is the on/off snvt_switch network variable.