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Smart Lighting

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Smart Lighting

Wherever you may be creating or adapting lighting solutions, whether it’s for homes, office blocks, a multi-story car park or city-wide street lighting, our Smart Lighting solutions provide the foundation for your success.

Smart Lighting solutions have the ability to address many of the common inefficiencies that exist today - for instance:

  • Highway streetlights remain illuminated throughout the hours of darkness, irrespective of highway usage; this typically accounts for 40% of a city’s energy spend
  • In our offices, schools and many public buildings, lights all too often remain switched on irrespective of room occupancy
  • It is estimated that 54% of the conservable energy in a building comes from lighting, yet only 5% of commercial buildings today have any form of lighting management

Through our long-term commitment to the lighting sector and our in-depth knowledge and understanding of industrial and residential markets, we bring you a broad portfolio of high-efficiency lighting drivers and controller ICs, as well as low-power wireless microcontroller technologies to exceed all expectations. Our world-class platform, combined with your expertise in the design of your next generation of Smart Lighting solution will light the way to a brighter future.

Key applications

  • Commercial lighting: offices, hotels, shopping malls
  • Industrial lighting: warehouses, factories, shipping yard and docks
  • Street lighting: city, highway, car parks
  • Smart Home: rooms, garden, mood lighting

Wireless solution

Our JN51xx wireless microcontrollers, combined with our wireless network protocol stacks, form the wireless connectivity backbone of the solution.

The JN51xx wireless microcontrollers are feature-rich devices that, in addition to an IEEE802.15.4-compliant 2.4GHz radio and 32-bit CPU, contain a wealth of on-chip peripherals to support your application needs. These include 21 GPIOs, ADC, DAC, PWM, timers, UART and SPI. If you need additional peripherals then our industry-standard I²C port combined with any of the devices from our I²C interface and connectivity portfolio provides an optimal way for you to expand or enhance I/O capabilities to your individual requirements.

Our wireless network protocol stacks offer unrivalled levels of performance and functionality:

  • JenNet facilitates easy-to-use, highly robust, low-cost networking
  • JenNet-IP is an enhanced 6LoWPAN network solution that provides IP-based networking to serve the 'Internet of Things'
  • ZigBee Home Automation provides a multi-vendor product interoperability solution

Each stack is developed in-house and is highly optimised to the JN51xx platform. Simple C-based API's are provided to streamline software development. Our stacks provide the features and robustness:

  • Data security and integrity through 128-bit AES encryption and message acknowledgements
  • Support for the varying geographical requirements, for instance:
    • A long line of highway street lamps that stretches for kilometers
    • A dense collection of lamps within a city, office or home environment
  • Low-latency data communication for imperceptible delays from light-switch presses to lighting system illumination