Automatic Calibration
You can use Commissioner to automatically calibrate one or more daylight harvesting-enabled fixtures within a zone. Additionally, you can auto calibrate an entire zone, network, or an entire facility. To determine baseline light levels during auto calibration, Commissioner sets all fixtures in the selected area to 100% output and then sequentially steps each fixture through multiple dimming levels, using the fixture's light sensor to measure light levels and perform calibration. Auto calibration is the fastest calibration method.
- Note that the default rule for a zone determines the active and inactive target illumination levels for the fixtures in that zone.
- Multiple fixtures are selected, or an entire zone, network, or facility is selected, and the auto calibration sequence is initiated.
- Commissioner connects to the lighting network.
- All selected fixtures are automatically set to 100% light output, allowing Commissioner to measure maximum light output.
- The occupancy sensors on all fixtures in the selected area are temporarily disabled, including all neighboring fixtures.
- One at a time, for each selected fixture in the selected area, Commissioner steps through multiple light dimming levels (starting at 0%), takes measurements of reflected illumination from the floor level, calibrates the fixture, and then returns that fixture to 100% light output.
- Once all fixtures are calibrated, Commissioner re-enables all occupancy sensors and restores zone default rules.
Note: To perform Auto Calibration, you connect directly to the lighting network via Ethernet cable rather than wirelessly with the Digital Lumens USB Wireless Adapter. Before proceeding you must follow the Lighting Gateway Operations instructions.
- Pause the LightRules Appliance:
- In LightRules, select Administration > Shutdown > Stop Network. - or -
- In Commissioner, select File > Connect to LightRules > Pause LightRules > [Select duration] > OK.
- Select one or more fixtures.
- Go to the Edit menu and select Calibrate Daylight Harvesting Automatically...
- (Optional) Click the Allow Fixtures to Dim to Off checkbox to allow fixtures to turn completely off whenever there is sufficient daylight to meet the target illumination level.
- (Optional) Uncheck the Enable Daylight Harvesting once calibration is complete checkbox to disable daylight harvesting functionality once calibration is complete
- In Commissioner, click Next.
- During the auto calibration sequence, Commissioner runs through four calibration phases. Click Next to initiate each phase:
- Phase 1/4: Discover gateways.
- Phase 2/4: Disable all fixture occupancy sensor and set all fixtures to 100% light output.
- Phase 3/4: Calibrate and program all fixtures, one at a time, per zone.
- Phase 4/4: Re-enables all fixture occupancy sensors and restore with zone default rules.
- Upload the map file containing calibrated fixtures to the LightRules Appliance.
Note: Uploading the map file restarts the network. If it does not automatically restart, select File > Connect to LightRules > Resume LightRules or open LightRules and select Administration > Shutdown > Restart Network.
- In Commissioner, click Next and then click Done to complete auto calibration.
Note: During auto calibration, Commissioner calibrates one fixture at a time in each zone; if a network or the entire facility has been selected, calibration occurs in parallel by network (one fixture in each network is calibrated simultaneously).