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Tyco Electronics and Redwood Systems, a manufacturer of network-based lighting power and control systems, have announced a strategic collaboration to promote Redwood Systems’ new lighting platform in the commercial lighting market.
The new platform - a lighting system that fuses intelligent control, communications and power delivery into an integrated, networked system - will make smart lighting simple and cost-effective, and provide users with expanded ways to visualise and optimise their buildings. The system, which operates on both groundbreaking LED technology and traditional fluorescent and halogen technology, estimates energy savings up to 75 percent for standard building lighting.
Tyco Electronics will collaborate with Redwood Systems on a comprehensive solutions package, which includes a combination of the company’s core competencies, for integration into this high-level system. The package will provide the foundational infrastructure necessary to enable, as well as complement, the lighting system, such as commercial-premises structured cabling systems, circuit protection devices and interconnect systems.
According to Dave Leonard, cofounder and chief executive officer of Redwood Systems “We knew that Tyco Electronics would be a strong ally and help Redwood bring this platform to market. The invaluable relationships that we develop with Tyco and our other strategic allies will accelerate our product’s adoption rate and help more customers reduce their lighting costs and improve building performance.”
The platform is composed of three discrete elements that work in concert to create a programmable “building fabric.” The three components include the Redwood engine, a central driver that provides and modulates power; the Redwood adapter, a group of sensors at each light fixture; and the Redwood wall switch. The system, connected with Tyco Electronics low-voltage cabling, facilitates “plug-and-play” behavior to reduce installation time.
