Area Cascading

Corridor Linking creates adaptive illuminated pathways from any area in the building to the entrance by linking the occupancy states of associated areas in a parent-child configuration.

A typical scenario involves keeping corridor lights on if any adjacent room is still occupied, and keeping the foyer lights on if any of the corridor lights are on. In this scenario, the foyer area is parented to the corridor areas, and each corridor area acts as parent to its adjacent child areas.

This provides occupants with the safety and comfort of a clearly lit egress path at all times, without the need to navigate darkened areas or trigger additional motion sensors to light their way.

In large areas with multiple sensors, such as an open-plan office with groups of work islands, Background Lighting activates or maintains a minimum illumination level while any of the work islands are occupied. When the last work island in the area becomes unoccupied, the lights in the area remain on for a set delay period, then switch off.

In this scenario, a large parent area covers the entire space, while each work island is contained in an associated child area.

Switch off warning dims the light levels in all linked areas to a predefined standby level for a grace period to notify occupants that the lights will soon switch off. If the area remains unoccupied for the grace period delay, the lights then switch off.

This feature does not require parent/child areas.

Dynamic step over patterns create a welcoming gradient of light from an occupied area to surrounding unoccupied areas. When a sensor in an area with a dynamic step over senses motion, the lights in the area go to the defined foreground level, while surrounding areas adjacent to the occupied area go to the defined background level. Other areas in the open plan go to the defined open plan level, which can be dimmed or off altogether.

Every dynamic step over area is both a parent and a child area.