Technical Application Knowledge: From practice, for practice
In many outdoor areas, it is crucial to ensure sufficient lighting at all times, such as in public parks, on bike paths and footpaths, on sports fields and parking lots. This ensures that people can feel safe at all times in these and other public spaces. However, in today’s world, it is equally important to ensure that lighting consumes as little energy as possible: The production of electricity is becoming increasingly expensive and can also cause considerable environmental damage, for example through high CO2 emissions.
In addition, care must also be taken to keep light pollution as low as possible in order to better protect fauna and flora, but also the well-being of people. And finally, today’s outdoor lighting systems must be intuitively programmable, flexibly dimmable and remotely monitorable. With state-of-the-art, wirelessly controllable Bluetooth® NLC D4i outdoor sensor technology from Inventronics, you can cover all these requirements effortlessly.
Our wirelessly controllable NLC D4i sensors are equipped with standardized interfaces to outdoor LED drivers and come in three different versions:
B NLC D4i LS P Z – light sensors that respond to brightness
B NLC D4i PD P Z – PIR sensors that register the presence of people
B NLC D4i HF P Z – microwave sensors that detect the movement of vehicles such as cars, forklifts and bicycles
In combination with D4i-certified outdoor LED luminaires, the luminous flux can be set to a required value. This value is automatically activated whenever the respective sensors detect pedestrians, cyclists or cars; afterwards, the light is dimmed down to a minimum level to ensure safety.
Noticeable advantages right from the start
The Bluetooth® NLC D4i wireless sensors can be programmed and controlled intuitively and effortlessly via radio. Thanks to the NLC communication protocol and our HubSense system, this works entirely without the need to install and deploy a central control unit. All the luminaire parameters can be conveniently configured by authorized persons via smartphone or tablet – and changed at any time if required. But there are even more advantages: There is no longer a need to dig any additional cable trenches during installation (which, by the way, is also possible as a retrofit for existing outdoor LED luminaires). Thus, thanks to modern sensor technology, a great deal of work, time and money can already be saved in advance. The same also applies, of course, to simplified maintenance and, if necessary, the rapid replacement of the sensors.
Installed in no time, CO2 consumption immediately reduced
The sensors are ideally suited for outdoor use thanks to IP66 ingress protection and the IK9 impact resistance rating. They can be connected to the LED driver via a standardized interface that is already pre-installed in today’s outdoor luminaires. All this can be done in the blink of an eye and without the use of any tools. To do this, the sensor is simply attached to the top or bottom of the luminaire via a corresponding standard adapter. Simply screw it in until the sensor clicks into place – and the luminaire is ready. Equipped with this cutting-edge sensor technology, the luminaire now saves a great deal of energy and costs.
