Lighting Control for Smart Rooms

onework combines lighting, sensors, and room logic to create a needs-based lighting control system. Occupancy, daylight, usage, and defined scenes are centrally analyzed and translated into reproducible lighting conditions.

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Smart Building Monitoring Redefined

Light follows space, use, and the course of the day

Modern lighting control goes beyond simple switching and dimming. The key lies in the interplay between sensors, natural light, room occupancy, and usage. one.work CORE processes this information centrally and controls lighting across zones based on actual needs.

Situation

Lighting Must Do More Than Just Turn On and Off and Dime

Modern buildings consist of zones with different uses, changing occupancy patterns, and varying daylight conditions. Rigid on/off settings or isolated group controls can only meet these requirements to a limited extent.

What matters most is how lighting responds across interconnected areas. Transition zones, circulation areas, and open floor plans should not be controlled independently of one another if doing so results in visible light-dark transitions or unsettling lighting conditions.

Solution

Centralized Lighting Control for Connected Areas

onework CORE centrally evaluates sensor data, occupancy, and daylight and uses this information to generate the necessary control commands. These commands are transmitted via DALI gateways to the connected luminaires and lighting groups and implemented across all zones.

Tunable White, Human Centric Lighting, scenes, and manual override can also be integrated into the same control architecture. After a manual intervention, the system can return to the defined automatic mode in a controlled manner.

Across zones

Adjacent areas and transition zones are evaluated together and coordinated with one another.
Across zones

Depending on daylight

Available natural light is taken into account, and artificial lighting is adjusted accordingly.

Depending on daylight

Heavy-use

Presence, usage, and defined scenes are incorporated into the lighting control system.
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Reproducible

Identical input conditions result in defined and predictable lighting responses.

Reproducible

Benefits

Lighting control that combines comfort and efficiency.

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Greater visual comfort

Carefully balanced light levels and smooth transitions between adjacent areas reduce abrupt changes in brightness and enhance the perception of space.

Greater visual comfort
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Greater Energy Efficiency

Occupancy, natural light, and usage are automatically taken into account. Lighting is activated only where and when it is actually needed, and at the appropriate intensity.

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More Flexibility

Scenes, Tunable White, and various operating modes can be configured to meet specific project requirements and adjusted at any time.

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Greater Operational Reliability

Well-defined system logic, clearly separated control and execution levels, and reproducible lighting conditions simplify planning, commissioning, and operation.

Greater Operational Reliability
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Greater convenience during manual operation

Users can override automatic processes as needed without losing the underlying system logic.

Greater convenience during manual operation
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Higher Quality Across Zones

LED technology, demand-based control, and optimized operating hours reduce unnecessary energy consumption during normal operation.

Higher Quality Across Zones

Visualization

The Guard is a digital twin of the KNX building. This allows you to see on a screen from a central location which device is currently doing what and where any malfunctions are occurring.

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That's what makes the difference

Optimized Building Operations

Problems are not only identified, but also proactively resolved.

Energy Conservation

Targeted recommendations help minimize energy losses.

Improved Quality of Life

An optimal indoor climate enhances occupants' well-being.

Easy Integration

Quick and easy to set up thanks to the ETS project file.

How Lighting Control Works

Sensors, central logic, actuators, lighting, and controls all work together to form a coordinated lighting control system.

Sensors
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DALI Gateway
onework LUX (DALI luminaires)
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Detects presence, brightness, and other relevant room conditions.

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Processes the information and handles the central lighting logic.

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Transmits control commands to the DALI system and serves as the interface between the automation logic and the lighting system.

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They implement switching, dimming, scene, and Tunable White commands and form the execution layer of the lighting system.

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Open to Various Actuators

Lighting control is not limited to DALI. Depending on the project, other suitable KNX actuators and lighting interfaces can also be integrated. The key is integration into the central automation logic of onework CORE.

More About Lighting Control

For more detailed information on system logic, cross-zone control architecture, and the integration of Human Centric Lighting, please see our fact sheet on lighting control.

Download the fact sheet
Lighting Control Fact Sheet (German)

Integrating Lighting Control Seamlessly Into the Project

Talk to us about cross-zone lighting control, Human Centric Lighting, sensor technology,
and integration into your KNX- and DALI-based building automation systems.

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