Lutron Vive: Wireless Lighting Control for Commercial Buildings

Lutron Vive: Wireless Lighting Control for Commercial Buildings

For commercial projects — offices, schools, retail, healthcare — the hard part of lighting controls is usually the wiring. Lutron Vive sidesteps it: it's a wireless lighting-control system that scales from a single room to a whole campus, and it's built for both new construction and retrofits. Here's how it works and where it fits.

What is Lutron Vive?

Vive is Lutron's commercial wireless lighting-control platform. Wireless sensors, remotes, and dimmers communicate over Lutron's Clear Connect RF (about a 71 ft / 22 m range), so you can add code-compliant controls without pulling new control wiring — a big deal on retrofits in occupied buildings.

At the center is the Vive wireless hub, which acts as the brain for scheduling, daylight response, demand response, and app/cloud management.

How Vive scales

Vive grows with the job:

  • Starter hub: up to 75 wireless devices per hub — good for a single space, floor, or small building.
  • Premium hub (with BACnet): up to 700 load controllers per hub, for larger buildings and BMS integration.
  • Up to 64 hubs can be networked together over wired ethernet for campus-scale systems.

Control is flexible at the device level too: any given load device can be controlled by up to 10 occupancy sensors, 10 Pico remotes, and 1 daylight sensor.

What's in a Vive system

A typical Vive system mixes and matches:

  • PowPak wireless dimming/switching modules and fixture controllers
  • 20 A relay modules for switching larger loads
  • Maestro Wireless dimmers and switches
  • Radio Powr Savr wireless occupancy/vacancy and daylight sensors (no wiring; rated for a 10-year battery life)
  • Pico remotes for wireless control and scene recall
  • Wireless receptacle controls for plug-load control

Vive and energy-code compliance (Title 24, ASHRAE 90.1)

This is where Vive earns its keep on California jobs. It makes the code-required strategies straightforward:

  • Occupancy sensing (auto-off) — turn lighting off/down when a space is vacant
  • Daylight harvesting — dim electric light as daylight increases
  • Demand response (load shed) — the hub includes inputs for load-shed/utility integration
  • Timeclock scheduling — fixed times or sunrise/sunset events

Those map directly to the control requirements in California's Title 24, Part 6 and ASHRAE 90.1. (New to the 2025 Title 24 rules? See our guide: California Title 24 Lighting Controls: What the 2025 Code Requires.)

New construction vs. retrofit

  • New construction: Vive integrates cleanly and scales with the Premium hub + BACnet for building-management integration.
  • Retrofit: the wireless design is the selling point — add occupancy sensors, daylight response, and dimming to an existing building with minimal disruption and no new control wiring.

Where to buy Lutron Vive

Rock Lighting & Electric is an authorized Lutron dealer and distributor. We stock Vive hubs, PowPak modules, Radio Powr Savr sensors, Pico remotes, and the rest of the line — and, as an authorized Wattstopper dealer too, we can help you compare Vive against a DLM approach and spec whichever fits the project. Contractor pricing on request — send us your plans or a control schedule for a quote.

FAQ

What is Lutron Vive?
Vive is Lutron's commercial wireless lighting-control system. It uses wireless sensors, remotes, and dimmers on Clear Connect RF, controlled by a Vive hub, for single rooms up to whole campuses.
How many devices does a Vive hub support?
A Starter hub supports up to 75 wireless devices; a Premium hub (with BACnet) supports up to 700 load controllers. Up to 64 hubs can be networked together.
Is Lutron Vive good for retrofits?
Yes — because it's wireless, you can add code-compliant occupancy, daylight, and dimming controls to an existing building without pulling new control wiring.
Does Vive help meet Title 24?
Yes. Vive supports the occupancy sensing, daylight harvesting, demand response, and scheduling strategies required by California Title 24 and ASHRAE 90.1.
Where can I buy Lutron Vive?
Rock Lighting & Electric stocks the Vive line as an authorized Lutron dealer, with contractor pricing on request.

Contractor pricing and project help: create your Rock contractor account for trade pricing and online ordering, or request a quote on your job. Related guides: Wattstopper DLM vs Lutron Vive, wired vs wireless controls, and commercial occupancy sensors. New here? See why contractors buy lighting from Rock.

General product guidance, not a compliance determination. Confirm current device limits and code applicability for your specific project against Lutron's published specifications and the governing code.

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