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Daintree Networks Brings Wireless Intelligence to Lighting Control with its Revolutionary ControlScope™ Platform

Unveils Partnership with Easylite and First Customer Implementation to Usher in a New Era in Cost-Effective, Easy-to-Implement Wireless Lighting Control

Mountain View, CA — September 15, 2010 — Daintree Networks, Inc., a leading provider of innovative wireless control solutions for energy-smart buildings, today announced the commercial availability of ControlScope, a wireless lighting control platform designed to enable lighting manufacturers and solution providers to bring more cost-effective, easy-to-implement lighting systems to market. The company also announced that it has partnered with Easylite, a leader in lighting control solutions, to provide wireless control systems to its customers. Additionally, the companies have completed a joint installation at a customer’s warehouse facility in Colorado.

“Easylite is committed to delivering easy-to-implement and cost-effective lighting solutions to our customers, and we believe the ControlScope platform can help us honor that commitment,” said Dennis Robinson, COO at Easylite. “Many of our customers are looking to decrease energy usage but do not have the resources or time to undertake a difficult retrofit process. Daintree helps eliminate the rewiring of facilities and shortens the commissioning process, resulting in a more cost-effective implementation, faster energy savings and more powerful control for our customers.”

Easylite has partnered with Daintree to provide a complete wireless lighting control system based on the ControlScope platform for its commercial retrofit customers. This Daintree-based solution enables advanced lighting control capabilities such as daylighting and task tuning for Easylite’s customers, while reducing the cost and complexity of wired control solutions. The first installation has already been completed at a warehouse in Colorado. Part of a complete lighting retrofit aimed at large-scale energy reduction at the customer site, ControlScope alone is expected to reduce lighting consumption by nearly 50 percent from pre-retrofit levels.

ControlScope: A New Platform for Intelligent Wireless Lighting Control

Increasing energy consumption in commercial buildings, coupled with government regulations and utility incentives, are driving the demand for lighting control solutions, which have been shown to reduce energy consumption by up to 70 percent by reducing or eliminating light when it isn’t needed. However, many organizations struggle with the cost and complexity of large-scale hard-wired lighting controls, especially when looking to retrofit an existing facility.

Daintree Networks has changed this equation, leveraging its seven plus years of wireless development expertise to introduce a groundbreaking wireless lighting control platform that is easy to use, provides powerful system control and energy savings, and is economically attractive to the growing segment of commercial building retrofits. Daintree’s new ControlScope platform is a software-based solution that provides the core wireless network communication and controls intelligence for large-scale, standards-based wireless lighting control.

Through ControlScope, all components of a lighting system, including fixtures, sensors, ballasts, LED drivers and wall switches, can communicate wirelessly with each other, reducing system cost and complexity while increasing control capabilities.  The ControlScope Manager, Daintree’s Web-based application, allows facility managers to remotely set control strategies that are applied wirelessly to individual zones, or across the building or enterprise.

“ControlScope is a direct reflection of the pioneering approach we are taking to make commercial buildings more energy-smart,” said Danny Yu, CEO, Daintree Networks. “Lighting control is more than just energy efficiency—it’s about the convergence of building automation and the smart grid, helping utilities and building owners to better manage loads and demand, to the benefit of all electricity consumers. Our early success offers validation that we are addressing a major need in the marketplace, helping lighting solutions companies bring more flexible and easy-to-implement systems to market.”

Key features of the Daintree Networks ControlScope platform include:

  • Wireless networking: Reduces costs and complexity associated with system installation and future changes or updates.
  • Interoperability: Lighting products work seamlessly together across mixed environments.
  • Web-based Dashboard: Allows facility managers the ability to control and measure their lighting activity system-wide.
  • Auto-Commissioning: Patent-pending process vastly reduces the time and expertise required to bring a lighting control system on-line.
  • System-Wide Solutions: Remote, system-wide control in a single integrated solution offering scalable control, from granular, single room devices to the entire enterprise.
  • Energy Management Data: Active monitoring and collection of energy usage data allows facility managers to make better informed decisions, delivers savings verification to ESCOs and provides key data for Demand Response programs.
  • Zigbee® and Open Standards: Trusted open-standards mesh architecture ensures reliability, provides greater choice for suppliers and keeps costs low.
  • Accelerated Environmental Impact: In addition to providing the fastest path to energy conservation, financial savings and LEED compliance, ControlScope eliminates the need for miles of expensive and unsustainable copper wiring.
     

With ControlScope, Daintree has introduced the industry’s first solution to provide standards-based interoperability for large-scale lighting control and energy management systems. This gives building owners and facility managers the ability to choose lighting devices across a wide range of trusted suppliers, and in turn offers these suppliers access to new markets and customers. ControlScope is targeted at leading lighting and building automation equipment manufacturers, who can use the platform as a basis for quickly building and bringing to market full-featured wireless controls solutions.

The commercial availability of ControlScope comes shortly after the company announced the completion of an $8 million round of funding, led by Lend Lease's venture capital business, a leading global cleantech investor. More recently, the company has added a number of senior lighting and wireless industry executives, including Dallas Buchanan who joined Daintree as vice president of sales and business development. Prior to Daintree, Buchanan spent more than 20 years at other energy efficiency and lighting companies, including A.L.P. Lighting Components, Brayer Lighting and Parke Industries.

To learn more about Daintree Networks’ ControlScope platform for Wireless Lighting Control, or to inquire about joining the company’s network of interoperable lighting partners, visit www.daintree.net. 

About Daintree Networks, Inc.

Daintree Networks is a clean technology company using wireless innovation to improve energy management within commercial buildings. Daintree provides technology for powerful, standards-based wireless lighting control solutions that deliver substantial lighting energy efficiency improvements in a more cost-effective way than ever before.

Since its founding in 2003, Daintree Networks has been a pioneer in wireless mesh networking, with nearly 400 customers using its industry-standard design verification and operational support tool. The company has brought this extensive experience to bear in developing the industry’s first truly interoperable platform for wireless lighting controls. For more information, visit www.daintree.net.

ZigBee: Control your World

ZigBee is the global wireless language connecting dramatically different devices to work together and enhance everyday life. The ZigBee Alliance is a non-profit association of more than 370 members driving development of ZigBee wireless technology. The Alliance promotes world-wide adoption of ZigBee as the leading wirelessly networked, sensing and control standard for use in consumer electronic, energy, home, commercial and industrial areas. For more information, visit www.ZigBee.org.