by Shane Henson — March 19, 2012—CommScope Inc., a company offering infrastructure solutions for communications networks, has partnered with building-performance lighting solutions provider Redwood Systems to integrate building-performance lighting into its intelligent building infrastructure solution platform.
According to the companies, working together, they will assist facilities managers who are interested in deploying an intelligent building platform that includes lighting controls, in addition to monitoring and managing things such as security, heating and cooling, computer networks and telecommunications.
Redwood runs its platform over a low-voltage networking infrastructure, and deploys a fine-grain sensor network that measures temperature, occupancy and light levels—an approach believed to be unique in the lighting industry. All of the data from the Redwood network is made available to facilities professionals and can be seamlessly integrated with building automation systems to positively impact areas such as heating, cooling and security.
By integrating Redwood’s platform with CommScope’s intelligent building infrastructure solution, facilities managers can now deploy a complete intelligent platform that operates many different aspects of their buildings, including light-emitting diode (LED) lighting, that will also assist in reducing energy cost from lighting by an average of 75 percent, CommScope says.
CommScope intelligent building infrastructure solutions is the common infrastructure that supports various customer requirements, including:
- One system for voice, data, video and building automation
- Better utilization of building cabling assets
- Compliance with all existing building cabling standards
- Open architecture, multi-vendor support of voice, data, video, LAN and building automation systems and applications
- Innovative cable management administration via solutions such as iPatch and SYSTIMAX VisiPatch
- Better utilization of building cabling assets
