Comparison

Comparison vs. Other Lighting Management Systems

The lighting control and energy management market consists of three basic groupings of products: Advanced lighting controls, conventional low voltage controls, and relay based switching controls.

However, none of the products on the market offer the intelligence, integration, computerized personal control, individual addressability and energy savings combined with low overall system cost and fast return on investment as that of the Encelium system.

Below is a comparison of the Encelium ECS™ with other systems.

General

 Encelium ECS™ Advanced Lighting Control Conventional Technologies Relay Switching
Simple payback of system cost from energy savings in less than 3 years.   - -  
Reduces electrical consumption by up to 80% and demand by up to 45% in all commercial applications.   - - -
Integrates all lighting energy management strategies into one networked system.
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Equally suitable for all commercial applications such as office, warehouse, industrial, institutional, health care, and public facilities.
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Features

 Encelium ECS™ Advanced Lighting Control Conventional Technologies Relay Switching
Personal control of individual light fixtures through desktop computer.   - - -
Advanced daylight harvesting minimizing negative impact to occupants.   - - -
Smart time scheduling which mimimizes occupant irritants such as " leaving them in the dark" after scheduled hours.   - - -
Occupancy sensing.       -
Task tuning by individual fixture.   - - -
Variable load shedding capable of selectively shedding loads by priority of area. Responds to demand set point or real-time energy price monitoring automatically.   - - -

Installation

 Encelium ECS™ Advanced Lighting Control Conventional Technologies Relay Switching
Only requires wiring of low voltage communication network using prefabricated "click and go" connections.   - - -
Sensors do not require costly power packs - power supplied by network.   - - -
No rewiring of existing lighting circuits is required.   - -  
Free wiring topology - complicated bus wiring and termination eliminated.   - - NA
Does not require installer to manually record serial numbers or install pre-addressed devices at assigned locations.
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Commissioning / Setup

 Encelium ECS™ Advanced Lighting Control Conventional Technologies Relay Switching
"No risk" specification - universal hardware is completely software configurable.   - - -
Reconfigurable by software without wiring changes to accommodate renovations or departmental rationalization.
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