Commissioning

The lighting control system shall be installed in accordance with the approved system shop drawings and manufacturer's instructions.
Commissioning with the selected lighting control solution shall be easy, simple and straightforward. The onsite commissioning tool shall be an App running on a smart device like a tablet or a smartphone and not be dependent on any wires nor any Ethernet connection at any time.
The user interface of the commissioning tool shall be graphical, not text based. The intuitive commissioning tool shall allow anyone, regardless of their technical proficiency, to use the tool.
After pairing the devices, the lighting control system shall be accessible remotely for commissioning.
Written documentation on the configuration of the system shall be provided. The documentation shall contain room by room description including:
- Sensor parameters, time delays, sensitivities, and daylighting setpoints.
- Sequence of operation, (e.g. manual ON, Auto OFF. etc.)
The App shall have a ‘Nearby Devices’ functionality that will list the lighting control devices that are situated close to the App. The luminaires and other control components shall have a device ID that determines the name, icon, vendor, firmware version, signal strength and other device settings for control. Also the status if the device is in paired or unpaired state shall be seen.
Device IDs and the default device image shall be changeable and configurable from an App during the commissioning phase, if so wished.
The App shall show the real time active state of sensors for easy identification. All sensor time delays and sensitivity shall be calibrated to guarantee proper detection of occupants and energy savings.
To ease the commissioning of similar kind of functions, it shall be possible to copy scenes and timers within a network to paste the characteristics to other scenes and other timers. It shall be possible to copy from one network to another network circadian profiles. Networks themselves shall be possible to be copied to new networks with exact same settings and characteristics. With a ‘replace device’ functionality new luminaires can be set to the new copied network.
The app shall have the capability to send a diagnostic report that includes a copy of the current network settings, enabling remote troubleshooting of issues.
Commissioning of a complex wireless lighting controls project, especially the importance and accuracy of setting and sharing a network must be carried out by a partner with sufficient experience and competency.
The lighting control solution shall also offer the possibility of a remote pre-commissioning tool that allows off-site configurations with a PC tool, without access to real networks or devices. The pre-configurations saved on the Cloud shall be later accessible by authorized users to download on an iPad and perform on-site commissioning by pairing real devices with their respective placeholders in the application.