Lighting management transforms a physical lighting installation into a virtual network achieving flexibility, energy efficiency and operational efficiency as well as enhancing user comfort.

Managing light enhances sustainability and conserves energy through presence and daylight-linked control, provides flexibility and versatility allowing virtual-wiring soft-changes to switching and dimming layouts, and enables proactive support through hours-run logging, emergency light testing & monitoring, and lamp failure detection.

Yet managing light doesn't mean taking control away from the individual. Effective lighting management embraces individual choice with the option for users to create a very personal lighting space through a powerful array of local controls. Nor does managing light mean managing just artificial light - rather the seamless integration of artificial & natural light, and working in partnership with other building services to enhance the overall operation and energy-efficiency of the building.

Delmatic systems combine leading-edge hardware with advanced graphical software and liberate consultants and clients from the rigidities of traditional electrical installation. Systems provide total flexibility through addressable control and monitoring of every luminaire in a building while virtual wiring links luminaires to local control devices through software, enabling the lighting operation to be centrally programmed and adapted. Changes to switching arrangements to suit alterations to open-plan zoning and partitioning layouts are achieved through graphical software and without rewiring.

The lighting management hardware forms a structural part of the lighting installation and the system architecture is based upon a modular, hierarchical network. A range of switching modules and digital, analogue or phase-control dimming modules enables all types of lighting sources to be controlled as well as small power circuits and other services including window-blinds and fan-coils.

Project-specific graphics display the active status of each luminaire against background building layouts while pop-up data windows contain a wealth of data on the luminaire operation including the actual number of hours luminaires have been in use.

Powerful central management and monitoring is combined with local user control from a wide variety of devices including wall switches, presence detectors, multisensors, infra-red transmitters, desktop controllers, telephone and web-browser control.

Systems use the open-technology Lon protocol for reliable, high-speed communication as well as for seamless integration and interoperability with other building services systems to achieve efficient and inter-related overall control of services in the building.