User's Manual

CRD 3000 Integrator’s Guide

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Welcome

Intelligent street lighting uses electronic ballasts, power line communications

hardware, and local network controllers that are interconnected with specialized

control and reporting software. A street lighting network establishes two-way

communications with each lighting fixture so that you can control the lighting

level of each fixture, turn it on and off, and monitor its condition.

The luminaires in a street lighting network use a LONWORKS

power line

communications channel for the network, which is managed by an Echelon

SmartServer, known as the Segment Controller because it controls segments of

the street lighting network. To extend the network across low-voltage step-down

distribution transformers, Echelon introduces a power line and radio frequency

(RF) wireless hybrid device, the CRD 3000 Street Light Bridge (SLB) module.

This document describes the elements of the Echelon street lighting solution,

including the CRD 3000 Street Light Bridge module and the Segment Controller.

Audience

This document assumes that you understand basic networking and that you have

some experience working with a SmartServer. It also assumes that you

understand the basics of a low-voltage power distribution network.