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John Woodnutt, entrepreneur and inventor of electronic lighting control technology, has been awarded an MBE for services to Business and Entrepreneurship in the 2023 New Year Honours list. John pioneered lighting controls in the late 1950s and the Honour recognises his unique innovations in lighting controls and his six decades of commitment to creating smart, sustainable building solutions.
Delmatic’s smart lighting solutions seamlessly mesh wireless, wired and mixed-mode controls across physical or cloud networks, continuously monitoring, analysing and optimising lighting and sharing real-time intelligence to optimise building performance.
DALI-2 is the global standard for digital dimming, enabling devices from different manufacturers to be seamlessly integrated into interoperable networks.
We offer a wide range of DALI-2 products that can be integrated with other open protocol systems such as LON and BACnet.
A Delmatic DALI system provides comprehensive monitoring and management of lighting within the iconic building.
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The Shard comprises a mix of commercial office space, retail, restaurants, hotel and apartments, and a public viewing gallery offering panoramic views across the City of London and beyond.
A Delmatic DALI system manages and monitors lighting throughout front-of-house, shell and core and public areas of the tower, within the unique Views from the Shard public galleries, as well as fully flexible control and monitoring within the 60,000 sq.m office fit-out areas. In addition, the system provides comprehensive DALI emergency light testing and monitoring throughout the building including back of house and plant room areas.
The Shard is a text-book example of how to apply DALI technology. DALI is used throughout The Shard and the system design demonstrates the benefit of adopting different DALI strategies within specific areas of a building.
Within each area, DALI is applied in different ways to best match the required flexibility with the preferred method of installation while minimising or completely avoiding the need to address Dali ballasts. The project makes full use of Delmatic’s extensive range of DALI hardware – DALI Plug-in modules, DALI Broadcast modules and DALI Buswire modules, DALI presence detectors, DALI multisensors, DALI switch-interfaces, DALI scene-set panels, DALI relays and DALI emergency monitoring devices – all managed and monitored in real time by graphical network software.
Office areas need to provide total flexibility for tenants. DALI Plug-in modules provide independent control of each lamp with individual lamp/ballast failure monitoring while plug-in connectivity speeds installation, is convenient for tenants and avoids the need to address DALI ballasts on site.
DALI broadcast modules provide control in fixed areas where a high degree of flexibility is not required. DALI Broadcast modules control lighting channels and monitor lamp and ballast failure within shell and core areas and avoid the need to address DALI ballasts on site.
Staircases suit a vertical network buswire installation yet need the flexibility to address lighting along the buswire. DALI buswire modules enable sensors and lights to be individually addressed so that the route can be lit above and below the floor where motion is detected.
The 60,000 sq.m of commercial space has been fitted out for a wide variety of applications including offices, educational and learning centres and private medical facilities. Occupiers have harnessed the flexibility of the Delmatic system to meet their very specific lighting and operational requirements while also enhancing their system with scene-setting, IP telephone control, web-browser control, touchpad / touchpanel control and integrated services.
The complete network is remotely managed and monitored through graphical animated software.
The Shard pierces the sky as it rises more than 310 m into the air. Designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano, the faceted spire recalls the church steeples and masts of boats featured in historic engravings of London, while the tapered glass façades reflect sunlight and the sky causing the building appearance to change according to the weather and the seasons.
