Lighting Control & Energy Management Software

Polaris

Encelium's Polaris energy management software offers lighting control for facility managers and Encelium's PCS is a lighting control software for customized light levels. It displays various system parameters and allows certain system configuration changes. Also featured is an easy to use floor plan based interface that permits a user to navigate between zones, floors or different buildings offering centralized control of all of a client’s lighting requirements.

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Polaris provides the ability to manually change light levels anywhere in a complex, modify default light levels, select or modify pre-defined lighting scenes, manually turn lights on or off in a zone and to set lighting time schedules. Users can quickly view the status of and control every zone or individual light fixture in a building from this application. In the event of a building reconfiguration, the floor plan can be easily modified by importing an updated AutoCAD file. Also displayed is past and current energy consumption in the building as well as a short-term energy demand prediction for the purpose of load shedding. The load shedding feature of the Energy Control System can be configured either to shave peak demand in the event that pre- set demand limits are exceeded or to reduce consumption when energy prices exceed a certain price threshold.

Polaris can run on any PC connected to the local area network (LAN) thus permitting multiple levels of access for users such as building security or facility managers. Polaris can also be configured to operate remotely over the Internet from an authorized PC either inside or outside the building.

Energy Reporting Module

The Encelium Energy Reporting Module is an extremely powerful software tool that reports on energy consumption and demand in a wide menu of formats.

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Features:

  • The software enables a customer to review and compare energy savings against a baseline by providing analytical reports with charting capabilities.  Essentially the customer sets the baseline and the software takes over from there.
  • The customer may opt for reports on an entire space (building) or subdivisions thereof and view energy savings by zone (down to the individual fixture if desired) or individual light management strategy deployed (Task tuning, load shedding, personal control, daylight harvesting and occupancy sensing).
  • Reports may be generated and displayed in several convenient formats as required by the customer such as bar charts, pie charts or line graphs.
  • Savings may be expressed as dollars saved, kilowatts saved or as a percentage saving over the baseline values.
  • The software allows the customer to manipulate the data by both zone and time periods allowing load shedding thresholds to be set accurately.  Occupancy sensor efficiency may also be assessed in areas where that strategy is deployed.

On system commissioning, the system is set up to deliver report(s) in the format desired by the user. If changes are required from the initial format(s) specified by the customer, the system administrator will be able to modify report content parameters and presentation format.

Personal Controller Software (PCS)

Personal Control Software (PCS) is a lighting control software application that enables individuals to control lighting levels in their workspace from their own desktop PC. The user easily accesses PCS by clicking on a light bulb icon appearing in the system tray found on the lower right hand side of their PC screen. With this application, the user can control the light level of each fixture in their workspace or can control all of the fixtures together as a group. Preset lighting scenes may be stored, recalled and modified from this application to suit the individual’s personal preferences or task at hand.

PCS can also be used to control light levels in larger spaces such as boardrooms, conference rooms or auditoriums. In addition to the dimming functionality, PCS can be used to simply turn individual fixtures on or off within that same workspace. Users can only control light fixtures assigned to their workspace according to the configuration of the system.

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Communication with Encelium lighting control equipment is established through a connection to the existing local area network. PCS energy management software also has the unique capability of acting as a “virtual occupancy sensor” for the system. By detecting keyboard or mouse activity on each PC, PCS provides additional occupancy information to the system to ensure that lights remain in the desired state while a workspace is occupied.

 

Web Enabled Personal
Control Software (PCW)

For those clients that desire personal lighting control from their desktop without the installation of the Personal Control Software application on each PC (or without a direct connection to their computer networks), Encelium offers an Adobe Flash web interface that mirrors the functionality of PCS (PCW).

Each individual can access the interface through their web browser and achieve the same functionality and utility as with PCS with the exception of the “virtual occupancy sensor” feature which is not available with PCW.  The PCW user interface is similar to that of PCS but utilizes HTML such that it will be compatible with virtually any web browser, computer operating system or network security settings.

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The individual fixture dimming control, on/off switching and ability to save and modify pre- selected lighting scenes is identical to that of PCS. PCS is generally recommended over PCW so that users can take advantage of the virtual occupancy sensor feature of PCS.

BacNet®
ECS BacNet ®Interface Module

The BACnet®Interface Module enables the integration of the Encelium Energy Control System (ECS) with any BACnet®compatible building automation system. ECS operates autonomously while lighting status, lighting levels and energy usage are all shared and may be controlled via BACnet®. Connection between the two systems is established via BACnet/IP.

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The BACnet®Interface Module:

  • Enables BACnet®switching and dimming control.
  • Provides load shedding control over the lighting load (also referred to as demand response).
  • ECS provides information about the estimated amount of lighting load available for reduction, either by selected groups (Group Sheddable Load) or in total (Sheddable Load).
  • In turn, load shedding requests can be made for each selected group individually or ECS can initiate prioritized load shedding by predefined zones through a single request to reduce the total lighting load.
  • Both types of load shed requests can be defined in Watts to achieve precise load reduction or by the common method of shedding by a percentage of the current lighting load.
  • Notifies ECS of an emergency through a BACnet®connected fire alarm input to turn all lights on.
  • Shares occupancy information obtained by ECS with a BACnet®client to integrate HVAC with occupancy.
  • Utilizes a centralized BACnet®time schedule.

To ensure smooth and user-friendly integration, the BACnet®Interface Module creates access points with names and descriptions that can be customized to accommodate any BACnet®client’s naming scheme.  It also exports standard BACnet®object properties in a clear, structured manner and can define an unlimited number of groups of fixtures.

Niagara Driver

The Niagara Driver enables the integration of the Encelium Energy Control System (ECS) with Niagara based building automation systems. ECS operates autonomously while lighting status, lighting levels and occupancy information are all shared and may be controlled via the Niagara   framework. Niagara   creates a common environment that connects to almost any embedded device to provide a seamless, uniform view of the device data.  This interoperability with the Niagara framework will enable easier integration of lighting with HVAC and other building systems thus contributing to lower operating costs and improved ROI.

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The Niagara Driver:

  • Enables switching and dimming control from within the AX platform.
  • Provides load shedding control over the lighting energy load (including load shedding based on a demand response signal).
  • ECS provides information about the estimated amount of lighting energy load available for reduction, either by selected groups (Group Sheddable Load) or in total load (Sheddable Load).  In turn, load shedding requests can be made for each selected group individually or ECS can initiate prioritized load shedding by predefined zones through a single request to reduce the total lighting energy load.
  • Both types of load shed requests can be defined in either Watts to achieve precise load reduction or by the common method of shedding by a percentage of the current lighting load.
  • Notifies ECS of an emergency through a Tridium connected fire alarm input to turn all lights on.
  • Notifies Tridium of an emergency through connected fire alarm input to turn all lights on.
  • Shares occupancy information obtained by ECS to integrate HVAC control with occupancy.
  • Utilizes central Niagara time schedules.