10.1. Glossary Of Terms

By Tharushi Arachchige
7 min

Ambient Light Level: The light level reading of the ambient light sensor.

Absence/Exit on Absence: This is defined as a period of absence, i.e., no occupancy for an amount of time, which is equal to “Dwell Time + Low Light Time“.

Building Administrator: A Response Portal user that has Administrator or All permissions access to the building. An administrator or all permission are roles created by default in any building.

Burn-in Mode: The life of fluorescent lamps is compromised if they are dimmed during the first 100 hours of their life. Organic Response Enabled fluorescent light fittings are shipped in burn-in mode, which means that the light fitting will operate only in on/off mode and will reject any dimming commands.

Configuration: Refers to the process of adjusting the more sophisticated features of the Organic Response system.

Daylight Dimming: Daylight Dimming allows each luminaire to dynamically respond to ambient light levels and reduce its own output to maintain the light level required by occupants. This ensures both optimal and consistent lighting conditions, as well as providing increased energy efficiency.

Default Settings (Factory Defaults): The configuration settings that Response nodes are shipped with when they leave the factory. A full list of these default settings can be found in Appendix 13.3

Dimming: The process of decreasing or increasing the light output of an Organic Response Enabled luminaire

Dimming Level: The level of light output being delivered by the luminaire as a result of pressing the Dim +/- button

Dongle: An Organic Response infrared transmission device that plugs into the headphone jack of compatible iOS (Apple) and Android devices. Together with the Organic Response OR Apps, the dongle turns the smart device into a simple remote-control tool that allows you to optimize or configure the Organic Response Response nodes.

Dwell Time: The System Dwell Time refers to how long it takes for a light fitting to dim down to LowLight state after an area becomes vacant.

Firmware: The software that runs on the microprocessor on Response node. Different versions of the firmware come with different features support. The details of each firmware release is updated in the OR - Feature Release Matrix.

Firmware Interrogate: The remote button that initiates the Response node to display the firmware version in Morse Code on the dome LED of the Response node.

Infrared Dongle: Infrared attachment that turns your iPhone/iPad/iPod into an infrared remote control that allows you to optimize your Organic Response Enabled lighting system

LinkedIn Forum: The online (LinkedIn) forum that all Response App users join when they register to use the Organic Response OR App. The forum is a very useful community of Organic response users that share information and respond to queries about installing and using Organic Response

LowLight: The state an Organic Response Enable luminaire enters once there is no occupancy in the area, just prior to entering Standby state.

LowLight Time: The length of time that an Organic Response enabled luminaire remains in its LowLight state before dimming down and switching off completely.

Lumen Maintenance: similar to daylight dimming, but rather than compensating for natural light, it compensates for degradation in the output of the light source at a given dimming level. It is functionally the same process for the Response node/light fixture

Automated Self Test Sequence: When first powered, each Response node will automatically run a short Luminaire Integration Test to ensure that it has been wired correctly into the luminaire. Once a luminaire has been continuously powered for 15 minutes, the Luminaire Integration Test is disabled indefinitely.

  1. Luminaire is powered on and outputs 100% brightness

  2. Confirm that luminaire then switches off entirely for 1 second before switching back on - relay is wired correctly

  3. Confirm that luminaire dims from 100% brightness to 10% brightness over 5 seconds - dimming line is wired correctly

  4. Dome LED will flash to show end of the test sequence for non-DT8 drivers

The luminaire will then resume normal operation at 100% brightness, entering Burn-In mode if enabled (default setting) for DT6 devices, however, for DT8 devices it will continue as below,

  1. With the brightness level maintained at 100%

    1. Confirm that the luminaire changes the colour temperature to 2750K or yellowish white over 5 seconds.

    2. Confirm that the luminaire changes the color temperature to 6450K or bluish white over 5 seconds.

    3. Confirm that the luminaire changes the color temperature to 4000K or cool white over 2 seconds.

    4. Confirm that the above test sequences are repeated.

  2. Dome LED will flash to show end of the test sequence for DT8 devices

  3. The luminaire will then resume normal operation at 100% brightness and color temperature of 4000K

DDL luminaires will continue with the following two additional steps to validate the test

  1. DDL compatible SN3 will blink DALI Group 0 (Top & Bottom diffuse lights) once towards the end of normal automated self-test sequence.

  2. DDL compatible SN3 will blink DALI Group 1(Spotlights) thrice towards the end of self-sequence test upon successful validation.

Maxlight: The MaxLight level caps the maximum level of light that a luminaire will emit. This is an important setting for maintaining both occupancy comfort and energy savings. Many luminaires emit much more light than is required for the area they service and the tasks being performed beneath them. By setting a luminaire’s MaxLight value to the optimal level for its purpose, you will ensure the comfort of occupants, as well as contribute to significant energy savings.

Motion Sensor (PIR) Sensitivity: Motion Sensitivity determines how responsive a ResponseSN3 is to motion based on heat signature changes detected by the PIR sensor.

0% - Disable
4% - Level_1
8% - Level_2
12% - Level_3
17% - Level_4
21% - Level_5
26% - Level_6
30% - Level_7
34% - Level_8
39% - Level_9
43% - Level_10
47% - Level_11
52% - Level_12 - Default
56% - Level_13
60% - Level_14
65% - Level_15
69% - Level_16
73% - Level_17
78% - Level_18
82% - Level_19
86% - Level_20
91% - Level_21
95% - Level_22
100% - Level_23

Motion Sensor (Microwave) Sensitivity : A microwave sensor sends out microwave signals and detects changes in the reflections caused by movement.

Nordic: Is referred to the RF component of the Response node. Each Response node product version is made up of two components with relevant firmware release versions known as PIC and Nordic. For more information on how these versions are maintained and released refer to OR - Feature Release Matrix.

Occupancy Information Cloud (OIC): The OIC comprises the infrared signals shared between Response nodes that contain the occupancy information each Response node is collecting and disseminating. It contains real time, location specific data relating to the closest occupant with respect to any given location.

Optimization: Although an Organic Response lighting system is completely plug and play, the behavior can be optimized to the requirements of the area that it is servicing

Personality: Each Response node has the ability to adopt one of a range of pre-set “Personalities” which represent a particular lighting behavior relevant to specific areas, as presented in Appendix 6.4. The default Personality is Open Floor.

Personality: A setting of the Response node that determines the dimming level for various distances from the closest occupants, as well as default values for the dwell timers

PIR: Passive Infrared. The motion sensor in the Response node is a PIR sensor.

Relay: Rather than optimizing each luminaire separately, the Relay function in the Response apps make it possible to optimize a single luminaire (the “source” light fitting), and then have it relay those settings to all other luminaires. This saves time by immediately providing a fully operational starting point for all lights in an area that have the same zone. This allows eliminating the repetitive work of configuring identical parameters on each luminaire.

Response IR App: The Response IR app that turns your iPhone/iPad/iPod touch or an android device into an infrared remote control, in combination with the infrared dongle. Thus, allowing you to control the luminaires through the app.

Response App: The organic response Bluetooth enabled app which provides interface wirelessly over Bluetooth Low Energy or BLE for configuring and controlling Response nodes. The app is available for android and apple devices.

Response node: The Organic Response hardware that contains the sensors and Distributed Intelligence that forms the Occupancy Information Cloud (OIC).

Scene: A temporary mode that typically is to have light at preset levels and ignore occupancy. For example, a board room may require lights to be at a specific level for “projector mode”, or a hospital may have a “night light” mode where lights are maintained at 10% to provide adequate light to move around without waking up patients with lights responding to occupancy.

Soft Start: A deliberate approach to powering lights up at lower levels following a power failure. The typical application is for those buildings which use generator backup when mains power fails; the soft start placing a lower and/or more evenly distributed load on the generator on start up.

Standard / Building Tag: Any or all such tags which are created by building admins for whole building.

Start Up Mode: The mode that lights will adopt when powering up after a power failure. The Start Up mode is determined by selecting an appropriate Scene which sets the light levels on startup (only following a power failure)

Stitching (zones): a feature to allow uni- (or bi-) directional transfer of information between different zones

Tenant Tag: Each tenancy has a automatic tag created for building admins to assign nodes to a tenancy.

Tenant Made Tags: Any or all such tags that are created by a user that already belongs to a tenancy.

Transmission Test: A test of the effectiveness/reliability of infrared communications between the Wall Switch and neighboring Response nodes, or between Response nodes.

Tunable White: Refers to the ability to change the color temperature values in DALI DT8 type devices. Usually, the change is measured in Kelvin and is dependent upon by the capability of DT8 drivers to change these values for supported LED connected to it.

IR Wall Switch: The Organic Response Wireless Wall Switch allows for manual control of Organic Response enabled luminaires. The Wall Switch is plug & play and will interact with Response nodes using its default settings. The Wall Switch also allows for more sophisticated setup using the OR App.

Zones/Zoning: a feature that allows different areas within communications distance of each other to pass messages between each other.

 

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