ControlScope System Overview
 Daintree Networks offers the industry’s most intelligent, comprehensive and cost-effective solution for taking control over lighting energy use. Our ControlScope™ platform for wireless lighting controls delivers:
- tremendous energy savings for commercial buildings, which improve over the life of the building
- full-featured controls at a fraction of the cost and complexity of wired systems
- choice of open-standards, interoperable controls products from trusted suppliers
- advanced, enterprise-wide energy management strategies
Daintree's wireless lighting control solutions solve some of the lighting industry’s toughest problems by eliminating wiring and using open standards—which allows broader and more granular control, reduces costs, simplifies commissioning, and extends the benefits of lighting control to retrofits and other new markets.
How it Works: Intelligent Wireless Lighting Control
Daintree Networks' ControlScope is a wireless software and networking solution built on years of development in the most trusted, reliable, wireless mesh networking standards. Daintree provides the wireless network communications and lighting controls intelligence, and customers are free to choose from a variety of 3rd party lighting control devices including switches, sensors, fixtures, ballasts, and LED drivers - all using the trusted ZigBee standard for wireless communications.
In the ControlScope solution, an intelligent wireless mesh network takes the place of physical control panels and miles of dedicated control wiring. Daintree's Wireless Area Controller manages both the network and the controls intelligence for a floor or wing of a building. Sensors, wall switches, ballasts, LED drivers and fixtures all communicate with the controller and each other wirelessly, either through an external adapter or through standard wireless communications capabilities built directly inside the device. A ControlScope system can work with any standard commercial lighting products, including both fluorescent and LED.
Facility managers set automated and manual control strategies through Daintree’s web-based ControlScope Manager application - from scheduling and occupancy control to daylighting, demand response, task tuning and more - and those commands are applied wirelessly to individual zones and fixtures, or across the building or large enterprise. Setup is simple, and making changes is simpler: it's all done through the application, with full management over multiple facilities from any Web browser. The result is the most flexible, powerful and cost-effective lighting controls solution for commercial buildings on the market.
Daintree offers a full suite of products built on the ControlScope network software and intelligence:
- The Wireless Area Controller (WAC) is a networked device that manages the wireless communications with switches, sensors, ballasts, and other end-points in an area.
- ControlScope Manager delivers an easy-to-use web-based graphical interface for energy management and system configuration from any location.
- The System Controller provides coordination when multiple WACs are deployed in a system, and interfaces to Building Management Systems via BACnet.
- Wireless Adapters provide the option to add external radios to existing wired devices, allowing them to communicate within the wireless network.
- Our Auto-Commissioning Methods enable quick and easy set up of the overall system.
Key benefits
- Enables powerful energy-saving control strategies including
 scheduling, occupancy, daylighting, task tuning, lumen maintenance and load shedding.
- Simplifies communications by eliminating control wiring, which reduces much of the expense, complication, and disruption of a wired system.
- Delivers maximum energy-saving control strategies to retrofits and other spaces considered inaccessible or impractical with wired technology.
- Reduces the expense and complexity of commissioning through the use of our patent-pending Intelligent Auto-Commissioning techniques.
- Delivers real-time, measurable information about usage, creating new methods to manage energy use and demand as well as verify savings.
- Integrates with Demand Response / Demand Management programs through OpenADR, automatically shedding lighting load in response to Utility signals.
- Puts control in the hands of facility managers with a simple and intuitive web-based user interface for energy management, which is accessible from any remote location.
- Scales easily from a single office to system-wide control of thousands of devices across a distributed enterprise.
- Uses a reliable ZigBee mesh network: the leading standard for wireless building control systems.
- Provides choice of interoperable lighting control devices from trusted suppliers.
- Easily integrates with Building Management Systems (BMS) via a BACnet interface.
- Pervasive Metering feature enables the use of standard metering with ControlScope, to reduce total costs of a combined lighting and metering system.
- Helps buildings comply with green building regulations and guidelines (such as LEED) and qualify for utility and government rebates.
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