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Integ rated Lighting Controls

04 March 2014

A white paper issued by: Siemens.

White Paper | 04 March 2014

Building automation sy stems (BAS) and lighting control

systems offer facility managers flexibility, efficiency and

greater control over building systems. Integ rating the tw o

systems ca n offer improvemen ts in all th ose areas. However,

maximizing the benefits of lighting control and building

automation requires an in tegrate d system tha t allows the

two components to share data and control systems based on

an overall perspective of the building and its systems. A truly

integrated system allows for the building automation system

to tak e data from one component, su ch as lighting control,

and use it to manage overall building systems.

This white paper exam ines int egrated lighting controls and

shows how they can be used to increase energy efficiency,

improve operations and lead to better building

management.

Topics addressed include:

• Integrated lighting control and BAS

• Energy management based on data shared between

lighting control and BAS

• Strategies for successfully integ rating BAS and lighting

control

• Lessons lea rned from successful integration projects

www.usa.siemens.com/gamm a

Integrated Lighting Controls

Integrated lighting controls offer facility managers energy efficiency,

streamlined operations and overall better building management.

Summary of content (6 pages)

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White paper | Integrated Lighting Controls | 04 March 2014 www.usa.siemens.com/gamma Integrated Lighting Controls Integrated lighting controls offer facility managers energy efficiency, streamlined operations and overall better building management. White Paper | 04 March 2014 Building automation systems (BAS) and lighting control systems offer facility managers flexibility, efficiency and greater control over building systems. Integrating the two systems can offer improvements in all those areas.
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White paper | Integrated Lighting Controls | 04 March 2014 With lighting controls, facility managers can use schedules to prevent unnecessary lighting at any time of day. Integrating the controls gives the BAS that ability as well. Integrating Lighting Controls As facility managers look for new ways to improve energy efficiency, streamline building operations, and improve occupant comfort, building technologies are evolving to help meet those goals.
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White paper | Integrated Lighting Controls | 04 March 2014 Integrated Controls Help Keep The Bow Efficient In many lighting controls integration projects, the ultimate goal is to simply make it easier for the systems to function. That's the case at The Bow, the Calgary high-rise that is home to the headquarters of EnCana Corporation. The building, which has 55 occupiable floors and more than 1.
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White paper | Integrated Lighting Controls | 04 March 2014 These questions — and others — show the importance of a well-thought-out plan for the integration project, says Althoff. While an open protocol offers much more flexibility than a closed protocol, there’s no guarantee that it will work well with other systems, so be sure to explore what you can and can’t do to get the systems communicating with each other.
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White paper | Integrated Lighting Controls | 04 March 2014 In conference rooms, sensors can report occupancy status to both lighting and HVAC control systems, which adjust accordingly. offers more options for widespread control of operations, says Althoff. With time-of-use pricing, this communication can help tightly manage usage at any given point during the day. “There's a lot more data getting out of [ballasts] than there was before,” says Althoff.
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White paper | Integrated Lighting Controls | 04 March 2014 “A lot of systems haven't actually performed as expected, especially when it comes to energy,” he says. “They might function when they're first commissioned, but people tend to override things or maybe they never were commissioned properly, so none of that's really communicating and performing as needed.” Without the energy monitoring, it was impossible to track performance, so facility managers didn't really know what was going on.