Managing multi-site lighting installations

Simon Blazey, Solution Sales Manager at Tridonic, explained, “We understand that customers want more than just data on the lux and lumens of their installation. Using our dashboard will enable them to extract and interrogate valuable data that will assist with the making of complex business decisions and ensure that they gain additional value from their lighting installations.”

The dashboard has been developed on the Tridium Niagara Platform by Forest Rock who worked closely with a number of Tridonic customers to understand the best format for the data. For example, the dashboard allows the FM manager to rank sites across their portfolio from a perspective of KWh/ft2 lighting efficiency. This supplements the cloud-based, connecDIM lighting control solution which uses DALI protocol to monitor energy usage, fault conditions and emergency lighting from each luminaire across a client’s full range of sites.

“The key to any graphical interface is to ensure that the data represented is meaningful to your customer and that it adds value to their business and how it operates. The range of graphical representations that can be accessed via this dashboard can be tailored to the individual needs of the customer so that they have meaning for them and their reporting and will provide a focus for their energy reduction strategy,” continued Blazey. This type of reporting and analysis is going to become increasingly important for companies as they strive to meet the new ESOS requirements that are being introduced.