Will schooling fish inspire the future of lighting?
To be demonstrated at the upcoming Light + Building 2014 event in Frankfurt, Germany, Organic Response’s ‘disruptive’ technology claims it will threaten the future of traditional control systems.
Organic Response says the company’s lighting control system, which is built entirely on distributed intelligence, was inspired by the behavior of schooling fish. The system’s novel architecture enables simplicity of installation and operation while delivering energy savings and occupancy comfort.
The Sensor Node can be integrated into light fittings during their manufacture requires no additional wiring or commissioning during site installation. The Sensor Nodes begins working the moment the light is connected to mains power.
Each Sensor Node (with motion and ambient light sensors, infrared receiver and infrared transmitter) adjusts its light’s output based on occupancy behavior and ambient light, and shares the information – using wireless infrared communication – with its neighbours so that they determine their own optimized light level. Whilst each light makes decisions individually, ‘distributed intelligence’ communication means they all act together to deliver industry leading energy savings and occupant comfort.
Claiming that the company’s Distributed Intelligence lighting technology will make the complex lighting management systems in modern commercial buildings redundant, Organic Response CEO Chris Duffield, declared: “It is the start of a global roll out of the technology that can be cheaply fitted to any new or existing building in the world that has an electricity supply and an electrician to install the fittings.”
Duffield claimed that the integrated luminaires have been trialed extensively with remarkable results, including energy savings of up to 85% and payback periods of as little as three years, proving themselves to be simple to install and cost effective to operate.
“There is no need for bespoke design, additional wiring and expensive and cumbersome commissioning. It is a ‘plug and play’ lighting technology that provides amazing power savings yet it can be controlled by an app on your iPhone,” said Duffield.
There is also the potential to contribute to even greater efficiency within the built environment through the exploitation of what Organic Response calls the Occupancy Information Cloud (OIC) – the continuous stream of real time, location specific, occupancy information being generated by the system in response to occupants.
“This information is very valuable to other building managements systems (e.g. HVAC, lift management, security, etc) who can use it to make more intelligent decisions about their own operation, thereby reducing energy consumption even further,” said Duffield.
Organic Response says that Havells-Sylvania award winning luminaires, which will be on display at Light + Build 2014, will be among the first of dozens of new models and styles to be rolled out by European and Asia Pacific partners through 2014-2015.
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