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Niko’s Daylight Control System saves up to 70% of energy consumption (2/4/2009)

Niko, the Belgian market-leading control company, continues to demonstrate its commitment to energy conservation and the growing home automation market.

Energy conservation is high on the list of priorities at Niko, as its new family of Daylight Control Detectors clearly demonstrates. These sensors enable the lighting in both a living and working environment to be automatically set to an optimal level matched to the level of the ambient daylight and in so doing avoid the unnecessary overuse of energy.

Installation is simple and the programming is easy as you would expect with a Niko home automation product. The lighting can be controlled by the Nikobus home automation system, or with a simple push button.

The Niko Daylight Control system automatically controls the lighting in up to three pre-defined zones with a minimum level of light in every zone. The pre-programmed settings will then vary the level of illumination in response to the natural daylight or zone occupancy, which is constantly monitored by motion detectors or other sensors.

Dramatic savings in energy can be achieved with this system – remarkable energy savings of the order of 40% to 70%.

The Niko system comprises a number of DIN–rail mountable core modules which can be used together to build up systems of any size or complexity.

The 360-45010 Modular Controller is a standard DIN module which has four pre-programmed applications covering three lighting zones and offers variable light levels; variable hysteresis (range between the operating points) and variable switch-off delay.

The 360-45011 Dimmer Module has three 1-10volt outputs for controlling dimmable electronic control gear (ECG) for fluorescent and compact fluorescent lighting and has five pre-programmed application settings.

The 360-47000 Power Supply provides the power for the controllers and dimmers and is rated at 2300 watts for incandescent lamps; 500 watts for halogen lamps and 1200VA for fluorescent lamps.

Finally there is the IP20 type Photo-Cell sensor with four pre-set range of illumination sensitivity covering from 3 to 600 Klux.

All settings are stored in memory and protected during power failures and other Niko modules such as motion detectors; manual control switches and time switches can be added as required.

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