Specifications

Crestron Commercial Lighting Design Guide
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Introduction
This guide is designed to educate you on lighting system design using the
wide range of products found in the Crestron Green Light
®
family. Crestron
Green Light is built on 40 years of expertise, vision, and innovation. From
the very first touch panel to the first Ethernet-based control system,
Crestron
®
has defined “integration.” Focused on bringing to market new
and advanced solutions for making life easier and greener, Crestron is
continuing to engineer the future of intelligent building technology.
Through our industry experience, we understand the value of scalability.
We know that a solution fit for the needs (and budget) of today may be
different tomorrow. Green Light solutions are uniquely designed to grow
over time while constantly providing a reliable and consistent user
experience. Solutions for the room can expand to fulfill the needs of the
entire building; a building may grow into a worldwide enterprise.
Regardless of magnitude, Crestron delivers solutions for venues of all
sizes.
Product scalability is crucial, but hardware is only as good as the software
that drives it. Crestron software tools are designed to integrate all areas of
the system to do anything you want them to do. Lights in a boardroom
designed to function locally yesterday can now hook into the room’s AV
system for an integrated solution (so when the source is switched to
Blu-ray, the lights automatically dim). Similarly, electric shades that were
only intended to lower during AV presentations can now be integrated to
intelligently lower based on the angle of the sun and lumen level. This data
is shared with Crestron RoomView
®
Server Edition software across the
global enterprise for energy tracking, monitoring, control and maintenance.
With Crestron, everything can be integrated and intelligently managed.This
is the power of Crestron: a solution that evolves with you. Welcome to
Crestron—the only solution solving the challenges of today and tomorrow.
Specifying Crestron Lighting Systems
This lighting design guide will help you choose the proper Crestron products for your application. A typical lighting
system has at least a lighting control module or cabinet, a processor, and a user interface. Follow these four basic
steps when navigating through this guide:
1. Read the System Architecture and Product Families sections to determine the suitable lighting control
modules or cabinets.
2. Choose a control processor from the Processors section. Room Solutions products can work without a
processor, but support a limited number of connected devices without a central processor.
3. Choose one or more user interfaces from the User Interfaces section. For iLux
®
and wall box dimmers
and switches, a separate user interface is not necessary, but recommended.
4. Add in options from the Sensors, Shades, and Accessories sections to make a more robust system.
Crestron’s Green Light Designer program can help with the design process. Currently, it supports Architectural
Dimming, Power Switching, and iLux systems. For more information see the Green Light Designer Software
section.