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The addition of a web-based PC interface to MLS Digital, Ex-Or’s building-wide managed lighting system, offers users greater operational interactivity with the ability to monitor occupancy via a dynamic visual display.
Designed to deliver energy savings while enhancing the lit environment, MLS Digital operates via a network of communicating detectors which constantly monitor presence and levels of ambient light to provide zoned lighting tailored to the occupants’ needs.
Ex-Or have always made much of the fact that MLS Digital does not need a centralised computer and is therefore much simpler to install and more reliable in operation. No overall breakdown is possible and there is no fiddling about matching up pre-addressed components on a computerised master plan.
So is this a U-turn? “Not at all,” says Ex-Or general manager, John Forsyth. “The new PC interface just increases the functionality of MLS Digital by providing additional tools for those who need them. The system is still commissioned using the hand-held programmer and its menu of programmable features. Settings are uploaded to detectors (or downloaded for checking) just by pointing and pressing. They can be changed again whenever required – without having to access a complicated computer programme or incurring expensive re-commissioning costs.
“The introduction of the PC interface shows that we listen which is one of our strengths. Product development over the last 25 years has been driven by customer feedback, resulting in a range that delivers real-world solutions. We have found that some managers want the ability to interrogate the MLS system, to be able to see what’s going on and to use the information for simple reporting - this allows them to do just that.”
The PC interface delivers a real-time on-screen display of current lighting status. The dynamic visual display - a CAD plan of their own building which shows where individual detectors are located and what zones have been set up - can be panned and zoomed on screen. This provides an overview of occupancy on a zone-by-zone basis from which the system can generate reports so that total occupancy hours for each zone can be accumulated.
It is a web-based system; the on-screen display of occupancy can be accessed from a PC anywhere in the world.
Further enhancements to the new MLS-PC interface will shortly bring further interactivity with the ability to operate lights centrally on a zone-by-zone basis and to initiate lighting scenes remotely. It will also feature a time scheduler and will interface with a BMS running on popular protocols such as BACnet and Lonworks.
For further information contact:
Charmian Cvek, Marketing Manager
T: 01942 719229 F: 01942 272767 E: marketing.ex-or@honeywell.com W: www.ex-or.com
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