Lutron Launches Whole-Building Light and Energy Management Solution

Lutron Electronics has launched the Quantum™ whole-building light and energy management solution. Designed for facilities including corporate offices, schools, universities, the Quantum Solution manages the lighting use and energy consumption of an entire building centrally. The breakthrough system gives building owners and facility managers total control of the lighting system, as well as the power to configure, monitor, analyze, and report on the lighting and energy data it collects. Quantum delivers dramatic and reportable energy savings by managing the Lutron EcoSystem™ fluorescent lighting control system and the Lutron Sivoia QED™ (Quiet Electronic Drive) shading system from a single dedicated PC called Q-Manager™. Q-Manager stores all the relevant data about the system, such as light levels, power consumption, and sensor status, and runs Q-Admin™ software, the heart of the Quantum Solution. Q-Admin centrally manages every individual lighting fixture in a building or campus, determines their power usage and operating hours, checks that lamps are working in any particular fixture, checks that components are working, and makes any desired changes to multiple light fixtures, shades, and controls at the same time. A key feature of Q-Admin is IntelliDemand™ loadshed, which allows facility managers to "manage down" the lighting power in a specific space or for the whole building to reduce energy costs or comply with demand response requests for a facility. Quantum also provides email alerts when certain pre-defined events occur, such as lamp running hours, power overload or space occupancy.  In many cases, facility managers can address problems with lighting before building occupants are even aware there is one. The Quantum solution's chief hardware component is a lighting hub that uses an Ethernet connection to connect the EcoSystem lighting controls and the Sivoia QED shades to the Quantum network. More information about the Lutron Quantum Solution is available at www.lutron.com/quantum.