LED lighting control is a very hot area!

Lighting control is a very hot area and in particular in office environments. It has the capability to reduce lighting costs by 70% or more simply by doing intelligent things like managing external light sources (light harvesting), managing local lighting (individual control in office environments), and providing fast and easy installation.

How does all this work? Well first, LEDs are longer lasting and more efficient. This means that users immediately benefit from energy savings. Second, by putting in wireless networks, local control of lighting can be a simple system feature. It can support control from desktop or notebook computers, cell phones and universal remote controls. It can also support wall controls and sensors where ever the user chooses to place these controls.

The big benefit from the wireless control aspect in retrofit office environments means that the installation cost is much lower. Contractors can simply install new fixtures and the wireless connections provide control while the existing power is supplied as before. A building control system might want to control floor level switching of power while the local control can be done by computers, cell phones, wireless wall panels and remote controls. This reduces the installation cost by 50%.

RoweBots operating system solutions have all the necessary pieces to support this approach, allowing users to quickly and easily develop wireless LED lighting systems using minimal MCU or microcontroller hardware. It includes complete networking, low cost networking options, fat file system and much more.