Owlet Nightshift
Owlet Nightshift is a telemanagement system for monitoring, controlling, metering and managing outdoor lighting. Based on open technologies it saves energy, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, improves outdoor lighting reliability and lowers the maintenance cost.
Each individual light point can be switched on/off or dimmed at any time. Operating state, energy consumption and failures are reported and stored in a database with exact time stamp and geographical location. Owlet helps public lighting managers to assure the right lighting level on street while improving reliability of outdoor lighting and reducing operating costs.
Due to its open architecture Owlet makes the public lighting network to be part of the internet, enabling to do anything whatever possible with modern web based application
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System Architecture
Owlet Nightshift – a unique Combination of future oriented technologies and easy to use Web-operation: from a simple “fit & forget” solution to a “High-End System”, which monitors, controls and manages your lighting installation from anywhere in the world to the level of a single light point, just as easy like browsing the internet.
Owlet believes that open systems are the best way to protect your investment, giving you the freedom to be vendor independent using open industry wide technologies, like the internet. That open approach is reflected at any layer of the system, from street level to web level.
Core of the system is the open communication protocol ZigBee, a wireless mesh networking technology, very widely used in various industries where a secure, reliable and industry-standard (IEEE 802.15.4 Standard) based networking technology is needed. For more information please visit www.zigbee.org.
Webinterface
Are you familiar with booking flights on a webpage or using a web search engine? If so, you can commission and manage the Owlet Nightshift System as well.
No special skill set or expensive integrators are required for setup and manage the system. The basic idea of open systems is also reflected in the Nightshift server which can be hosted everywhere. Locate and monitor your installation in geographic maps, access predefined reports, customize your personal reports, configure the system, change dimming profiles or switching schedules etc., all on the system webpage.
All the received information is stored in a MySQL Database making the data available for longterm evaluations like energy analysis, lamp life time forecasting, problem detection, etc.
Hardware
The Owlet Nightshift System consist of the OLC´s Column Controller “CoCo”, Luminaire Controller “LuCo” and the Segment Controller “SeCo”.
The “LuCo” and “CoCo” are available in various configurations. All members of the family share the reliable Zigbee communication, switching and dimming capabilities and the lamp failure detection. The OLC´s are ballast independent, supporting conventional gear´s like magnetic ballasts and bipower ballasts as well as electronic ballasts and LED drives with 1-10V interface or the DALI standard. Each output is able to switch a 1000W load @ 230V.
The SeCo manages a segment of up to 150 CoCo´s and LuCo´s. It collects the data from the OLC´s through the self-healing ZigBee mesh network and transmits it over the internet to the Webserver, assuring security through a VPN. The connection to the internet is done either to ADSL, GPRS or 3G.