Chapter 2 - Optimisation

Tier 2, or Configuration, allows users to optimise a range of parameters of their system in situ for increased energy efficiency and occupancy comfort. This section describes how to optimise a system using the Optimiser features of the Response App. The features that will be covered in this section are:

Light Output

How to raise and/or lower light levels for one or more luminaires. How to achieve significant energy savings by reducing average light levels. How to use light levels to enhance occupancy comfort.

Personality

The role of Personality in defining how your lighting will respond to occupancy. How to use different Personalities to deliver appropriate lighting behavior to different types of workspaces.

Dwell Time

How Dwell Times impact lighting behavior. How to change Dwell Times to increase energy savings.

Daylight Dimming

How, when and where to activate Daylight Dimming to take advantage of natural light, thereby further reducing energy consumption without compromising occupancy comfort.

Light Output Menu from Response IR App

Light Output Menu from Response App

There are some generic buttons on the apps, which are used across a number of the screens at various levels of the app (see Response IR App and Response App screen shots above). The first of these is the Relay button. The second is the Save Settings button.

The Relay buttons allow you to relay a setting from a single luminaire to all other luminaires in that zone. All Response Sensor Nodes are shipped in the default zone of Zone 1, so they will all communicate with each other. It saves time, in that it removes the need for you to adjust every luminaire in the zone individually.

Note that you must have the Response IR App downloaded to a compatible iOS (Apple) or Android device fitted with the Organic Response infrared dongle before you will be able to perform any Optimization of your Organic Response enabled lighting system.

If you do not have access to the Optimization Level features on your smart device, then you need to complete the training and ensure you are registered at the appropriate app level via LinkedIn before access will be given. Please contact us if you are experiencing problems accessing the required level of the Response App.

HOW TO RELAY A COMMAND (Response IR App)

Commands

Response from Node

Response from luminaire(s)

Point the dongle at the Response Sensor Node that has the setting you wish to relay. Press the relevant “Relay” button.

Note that when you press the Relay button, a confirmation message pops up asking you to confirm the Relay. To bypass this confirmation pop-up, just quickly double- press the Relay button for immediate execution of the Relay command.

Dome of selected node flashes red once to acknowledge receipt of Relay command, and then continues to flash red for 60 seconds.

The nodes of each of the neighboring luminaires that receive the Relay message will glow red for 60 seconds to indicate that they have received the Relay MaxLight signal. Any Response Sensor Node that does not glow red has not received the signal.

Adopts the relayed setting. Sometimes this is visible (e.g. adopting a new MaxLight level); sometimes there is no visible response from the luminaire (e.g. adopting a new Dwell Time)

HOW TO RELAY A COMMAND (Response App)

Commands

Response from Node

Response from luminaire(s)

Toggle the “Relay” button at bottom left to turn on relay mode. The button will turn green when relay mode is active and all commands you send from that point on will be relayed.
After Node selection upon sending any command, the selected node will relay all command to its neighbors over IR automatically.

Note that when you press the Relay button for the first time, a confirmation message pops up confirming that it will relay to whole zone. Once toggled on the messages are automatically relayed.

Dome of selected node flashes red once to acknowledge receipt of command, and then continues to flash red for 60 seconds.
The nodes of each of the neighboring luminaires that receive the Relay message will glow red for 60 seconds to indicate that they have received the Relay (e.g. MaxLight) signal. Any Response Sensor Node that does not glow red has not received the signal.

Note: Upon finishing the command, the selected node with go back to solid red dome state unless you go back to selection mode to dismiss or make another selection

Adopts the relayed setting. Sometimes this is visible (e.g. adopting a new MaxLight level); sometimes there is no visible response from the luminaire (e.g. adopting a new Dwell Time)

Whilst transmitting changes across an entire zone very quickly is useful when the new settings are in fact required across the entire zone, you should be careful to consider whether this is actually the case before you use the Relay button. If you only want to make changes to some of the luminaires in a zone, then you will need to make the changes to each one of these luminaires individually.

The Save Settings buttons allow you to save the settings of an individual Response Sensor Node so that these can be restored at some later date using the Recall Settings function (discussed in Section 3.6). You can use the Relay button in both the apps for Save Settings to tell all Response Sensor Nodes in a zone to store their current settings. This is useful if you’ve just completed an optimization or configuration of an area and you’re happy with the way it is operating. Using the Relay button for Save Settings will store the entire range of settings across the zone; useful if in future you try out some new settings and are not entirely happy with how they are working. In this situation, you can Recall Setting for the entire zone to the previously Saved Settings and start again.

HOW TO SAVE SETTINGS (Response IR App)
Commands	Response from Node	Response from luminaire
Point the dongle at the Response Sensor Node whose settings you want to save and press the “Save Settings” button.	Dome of selected node flashes red once to acknowledge receipt of “Save Settings” command.	Nil.

HOW TO SAVE SETTINGS (Response App)
Commands	Response from Node	Response from luminaire
Choose “Configure Nodes“ or “EnOcean Switch” from the home screen	None	None
Upon selection e.g. “Configure Nodes” OR OR Express App sends a 'Scan for Node ID' message in the background as you enter in any menu and can see the “node selection“ at the top.	Dome of selected node will turn solid red to acknowledge selection of the node.	None
If it is not the node you wished to select click on “Dismiss Node” or shake or pull down refresh on your phone to select another node.	The node previously selected will settle its red dome to off and newly selected node will indicate it is selected by its red dome staying solid red.	None.
Select the Response SN3 whose settings you want to save and press the “Save Settings” button.	Dome of selected node flashes red once to acknowledge receipt of “Save Settings” command. Upon finishing the command, the selected node will go back to solid red dome state unless you go back to selection mode to dismiss or make another selection	Nil.