Starfield Lighting Automation announces the introduction of IRIS, Intelligent Room Integration System. IRIS is a new type of lighting control based on artificial intelligence (AI) principals and Starfield’s unique daylighting and occupancy technology. She is full featured, ultra-efficient, self-setting, maintenance free, and operates stand alone or fully networked.
Since its inception, lighting control has been based on switching; toggle switches, relays, and now logic gates in microprocessors. As demands have increased, switching has become more sophisticated, but the basic structure remains. IRIS changes that. Instead of a central controller and transfer functions, IRIS is a community of independent devices. That may sound complex but it’s actually how just about everything in our world works from beehives to stock markets. Such systems are inherently modular, flexible, resilient, and scalable.
IRIS works right out of the box or can be enhanced with a suite of accessories including additional 0-10v zones, track-light dimmers, relay panels, touch panels, and remote controls. She scales from cubicles to assembly halls, sees up to 6 times better than conventional systems, hears with cell phone precision, and communicates with standard building wire that can be run free or inside power conduits.
She’s fully code compliant of course, but also equipped with Starfield’s patented Adaptive Setpoint Daylighting and a standard suite of energy measures that can deliver a whopping 71% energy savings in occupied space. Sensors can be added and removed without affecting overall operation and daylighting calibration and setpoint determination is automatic and continuous.
Multiple zone daylighting is also standard. Modern architecture is bringing increased amounts of daylight into buildings so there is more daylight to harvest. However, conventional daylighting has not kept up. The standard solution today is to use a single stand-alone sensor with open loop control and manually determined proportional dimming for up to 3 zones. IRIS is completely different. She uses one sensor for each zone (typically combined with the occupancy sensor), closed-loop control, no manual setup, and has an upper limit of 64 zones per room. This example is stark and explicit. After IRIS, lighting control will never be the same.
Starfield Lighting Automation is a manufacturer of commercial lighting control equipment located in Denver, CO and co-winner of the 2002 LIGHTFAIR Judges’ Citation award for introduction of the industry’s first DALI controls.
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