Keeping up with nature’s complex transitions and changes poses a
variety of complex challenges for a daylight-based system – from
monitoring relevant lighting conditions through to mimicking natural
changes in daylight and allowing user intervention at any time. A
LUXMATE system embodies more than 20 years of lighting manage-
ment experience. This cumulative knowledge and expertise is re-
flected in the control units, control modules and software.
Just a few LUXMATE highlights: the system responds cautiously in a
non-disruptive manner. The automated system dims and switches
artificial lighting in a manner that minimises and prevents any jarring
effects. Users can employ a variety of control units to override the
automatic control system and control luminaires and blinds manually.
The specific geographical location of the installation, together with
its range of sun positions, are stored in every installation in order to
ensure optimal light sensor accuracy. The natural lighting conditions
for every room can be determined precisely from all this information;
the next step is to individually calculate the settings for each lumi-
naire and set of blinds and control them very accurately at all times.
21st March
23rd September
2 Using daylight
Individual sense of well-being thanks to automation
The wealth of ideas provided by nature
The sun has a particular relationship to
every location on Earth. A LUXMATE day-
light-based system takes sunlight’s various
angles of incidence and intensities into
account as well as changes in sunlight over
the course of a day or a year.
21st December
21st June