Control requires a multitude of information via on external influences and user interaction to cover the requirements. The following illustration provides an overview of influences that may need to be considered to control lighting.

Influences on Lighting

Positioning of lighting products in the building, how the rooms are used, and assignment of rooms to organizational units determine what information acts on lighting control, for example:

  • A fire alarm acts on the entire building.
  • A scheduler acts on all rooms for one renter.
  • Local manual operation acts on all the lighting in a rooms or individual lighting fixtures.

Gray:

Entire building

Green/yellow:

Rooms for a renter, for example, one floor.

Orange:

Local manual operation

The control concept is oriented on the following principles:

  • Divided into independent functions that determine a command for lighting.
  • Prioritization of individual functions.
  • All functions and decisions are evaluated based on lighting state priorities.

 

Operating

Circumstances by Outside Influences

Icon

Mode

BACnet priority

Description

Scheduler program

13

 

Schedulers normally write at priority 13 and can be overridden locally.

8

For specific applications (for example, room cleaning), a local operation can be overridden at priority 8.

Scenes

7

Light switches that cannot be overridden by the management platform, must be programmed at priority 7 (for example, screening room).

13

Light switches that can be overridden locally

Presence detector

(occupied)

13

Presence detectors always report/switch at priority 13; depending on the type, it is switched either immediately or dependent on the illuminance.

Presence detector

(not occupied)

13

Presence detector always reports/switches at priority 13.

Operating

13

Equal switching state as the local light switch. System operation with manual and automatic state

Extended operation

8

Overrides the local setting until the switching state is once again reset to automatic.

Central functions

8

Equal switching state at priority 8 as on the management platform

13

Equal switching state at priority 13 as on the management platform

Local operation

An object is switched at priority 13 with the room operator unit. As a result, light switches, presence detectors, scheduler, or management platform (priority 13) are equal at switching. In other words, the last condition always applies.

Light Local Operation

 

Management Platform Operation

Management platform operation switches an object at priority 8 and overrides all switching procedures at priorities 9–16. Automatic at priority is set to out of service until the object is set to the next lower and used priority. A priority 13 or 15, pending at the object, is taken over.

Management Platform Operation for lighting

 

Central Function

You can override or switch at the same priority multiple rooms in your building using the central function. The central functions are divided by building requirements:

  • Renter
  • Sections
  • Use function (office/production)
  • Floors
  • Entire building

Central functions use the same BACnet priorities as local control so that override at priority 8 is permanent and temporary at priority 13. A temporary override can be overridden with the room operator unit.

Central Operation for Lighting

 

Safety functions

A lighting group can only be switched on and off if the present priority is higher (remote >8 or local >13). Switching is only possible once the normal state is restored; switching is not possible as long as the priority is lower due to a safety function.

An active safety function is depicted as follows:

 

Emergency Lighting with Central Operation

NOTE:
If you undertake a manual switching while a safety function is active, it will switch only after the safety function is removed.

 

Remote Operation and Emergency

All pending commands are overridden on emergency lighting until the state is reset.

Emergency Lighting with Local Operation

There are two cases for switching back from a higher to a lower priority:

  • Operation via local switch
  • Operation on the management platform

 

Operation via Local Switch

A local switch operated during an emergency has no impact on the state after the emergency. In other words, that the light is switched off after the emergency, and must then be switched on by the user via the local switch.

Emergency Lighting with Local Operation

NOTE:
All commands executed locally in the room at priority 13 are rejected if a higher BACnet priority, for example 8, is pending, this means that the command is also not executed later.

 

Operation on the Management Platform

Lighting switched on via the management platform during emergency mode remains in this state even after emergency mode is eliminated.

Emergency Lighting Operation on the Management Platform

 

BACnet Priorities for Lighting

The following table illustrates the priorities used in Desigo.

Priorities in Lighting

Priority

Description

Example

1

Emergency mode 1

2

Emergency mode 2

Lighting can be switched on during a fire alarm to light escape routes or in support of first responders.

3

Emergency mode 3

4

Protection mode 1

5

Protection mode 2

6

Minimum On/Off time

7

Manual mode 1

  • Overwrites all manual interventions and auto functions (for example, the light cannot be switched on by the system operator during a presentation).
  • Scene (can also be assigned another BACnet priority).

8

Manual operating mode 2

  • Manual mode by system operator
  • Scheduler program

9‒12

 

Automatic mode 1‒4

13

 

Manual mode 3

  • Manual operating in room
  • Manual operation by system operator
  • Scheduler program

14

 

Automatic mode 5

15

 

Automatic mode 6

Program automation

16

 

Automatic mode 7

NOTE:
All commands executed locally in the room at priority 13 are rejected if a higher priority, for example, priority 8, is pending. The command is also not executed at a later time.