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Lutron Vive May Be Required in Your New Build or Retrofit

Lutron Vive May Be Required in Your New Build or Retrofit

Leveraging the vast benefits of lighting control systems is an unwritten rule for building owners. But, along with these benefits, building owners must not miss the government-instituted energy codes in establishing new buildings or retrofits.

Building owners have the responsibility to meet these energy codes to reduce carbon emissions, conserve energy and costs, as well as protecting the consumers. Fortunately, a newfound efficiency and cost-effectivity of wireless lighting management entered the playing field—cutting the costs of lighting systems, while maximizing their simplicity, scalability, and optimality.

With the right wireless lighting control partner for your establishment, you can make it happen:

• Meeting today’s energy codes
• Matching your budget needs
• Enjoying easy-to-install and update systems

Most importantly, advancing the experience and productivity of the people without sacrificing the costs. Vive by Lutron checks all these boxes to be your perfect lighting control buddy!

Lutron Vive, a wireless lighting control frontrunner, is known for helping both new and existing commercial buildings. Over the years, they take over meeting the building owners’ needs, not just with code compliance, but also with efficiency, cost-effectivity, scalability, simplicity, and security. Now, let’s see how Lutron Vive makes it happen.

What does Lutron Vive offer

From easy-to-install advantages to cost-reduction benefits, Lutron Vive wireless lighting management offers a multitude of solutions that keep building owners eyeing its particularities.

Ease and time convenience

Wiring is one of the most challenging parts of the lighting control system, eating up a huge amount of time due to its complexity. Therefore, it also is one of the most expensive in terms of labor. Fortunately, Lutron Vive's wireless lighting control keeps it simpler on every step of the way. In fact, Lutron Vive is 70% faster and easier to install than wired control solutions—hence, shorter timelines and lower costs. It also makes the projects move faster with stocked product at distribution. Likewise, control selection is fast as an installation with the sensors devised on them. You can manage and control your lights effortlessly in groups with one click away. What’s best is that they also have a mobile app that allows you to wirelessly connect system controls and program system settings from your phone. That means no ladder is required, so forget the extra hassle!

Scalability

Extending the lighting control system to every room and floor should be as effortless as how Vive makes it happen through the multi-strategy approach. Scalability is a dilemma for a wired system due to the need of replacing, reprogramming, and setting up wires in the areas of the building. But with Vive’s method, expanding the lighting system does not require difficult and time-consuming modifications, helping you to achieve seamless integration for your entire establishment. Similarly, it also helps on eliminating additional labor and costs.

Energy-saving control strategies

Trimming down energy wastes and costs have a huge help for building owners and managers. With Lutron Vive’s energy-conserving lighting control strategies, a cost-effectivity advantage creates significant energy savings for commercial buildings. Their vacancy-occupancy sensing turns off automatically when occupants vacated the space. Moreover, daylight harvesting dims electric lights when daylight is available to light the space. Pre-programmed scheduling, demand response, plug load control, high-end trim, and HVAC integration are acting all at once to save up to 60% or more in lighting energy. With a personal dimming control and system optimization service, you can eliminate energy waste to maximize cost-effectivity.

Safety

Among the fire-related calamities reported in the USA, 50% of them are caused by electrical failure and wiring. That is 44,880 property fires every year according to National Fire Protection Association’s recent report. With Vive’s safe and smart energy lighting control, you can ensure not just the safety of the people, but also avoid potential property damage.

Security

In today’s information and digital era, security must always be a priority. Lutron Vive’s design ensures it through its security features. Their isolated wired and wireless architecture strictly limits the potential Vive WiFi being used to access the corporate network to gain confidential information. They also use unique keys for each hub as a distributed security architecture. Third-party validation and continuous monitoring and improvements keep internal security and maintenance. More than that, their Clear Connect wireless technology operates in an uncongested radio frequency band to ensure no device can interfere with the wireless lighting system.

How does Lutron Vive work?

Lutron Vive works with seamless and strategic integration, ensuring a flexible and simple wireless lighting control to make every office, school, or university campus efficient, comfortable, and productive to work and learn. To execute that, the Lutron Vive technologies include a wireless hub, load controls, in-wall controls, wireless remotes, and wireless sensors—working both altogether and independently.

The Lutron Vive hub makes sure that the controls on a floor are communicated using the Lutron wireless Clear Connect technology 71-feet range radius. Through the Vive hub, Lutron Pico remote controls and sensors communicate directly with the load devices they control, just as long as within 30 feet of the device with which they are associated.

Along with that, their Vive Vue software enables the to tie multiple Vive hubs together in one software interface. Imagine controlling these Lutron Vive Bridge hubs through your fingertips, and enjoying its simplicity and scalability all at once! Vive Vue software ensures to delivery of the advanced intelligence necessary for today’s smart buildings and the Internet of Things (IoT). That certainly makes smart building design more achievable than ever.

Lutron Vive load controllers enable a light source's brightness to be adjusted, control receptacles for compliance, and integrate with HVAC system, among others. Emergency-rated wireless controllers, for instance, dim loads and respond to local button presses, Pico wireless controls, and occupancy/daylight sensors. Similarly, J-box mounted switches and dimmers help Radio Powr Savr occupancy/vacancy sensors to communicate with VAV terminal unit. Thus, it helps the HVAC system to cut energy waste by ensuring its conservation. Meanwhile, the plug load control utilizes an occupancy sensor to identify its occupancy status. The relay module then switches the power to the receptacles on and off, trimming down the energy consumed.

Alternatively, both wireless remotes and sensors promote the simple wireless lighting integrations of the Lutron Vive with their simplicity and convenience. To navigate the remote, just select one Pico pedestal for each tabletop location based on the number of Pico remotes at each location. Meanwhile, wireless sensors can basically communicate to all control devices in a room with just a single occupancy sensor. Depending on the height and width of the room, you must choose the proper sensor for your space to achieve the maximum efficiency of the wireless sensor.

Why is Lutron Vive required?

Energy codes set a minimum standard for newly built commercial structures. The main goal is to eliminate energy waste and conserve energy. With the help of Lutron Vive, you can comply with these government-instituted energy codes to boost your building's energy profile, productivity, and profitability.

In today’s energy-code compliance setup, Lutron Vive set the bar high to achieve or even exceed the three major energy codes: the National Energy Standard, the California energy requirements, and the International Energy Conservation Code.

Beyond that, they also systematically established their wireless lighting control system to meet the Florida Energy Code, the New York City Energy Conservation Code, the British Columbia Energy Code, the National Energy Code of Canada for Buildings, and the Ontario Building Code Supplementary Standard.

Through Lutron Vive’s code-complying and energy-saving lighting control strategies, you can create an energy-conserving lighting control system that complies with major energy codes and saves energy costs simultaneously. Lutron Vive required these energy codes in their strategies to help—especially, the building owners to meet their infrastructural goals in developing new buildings and retrofits.

The establishment of the wireless lighting controls of Lutron Vive in new buildings and retrofits could be accelerated up to 70% with its easy installation design. By doing so, you can save more than a million from energy waste every year, while also helping the environment by reducing carbon emissions.

To achieve your building’s energy goals, start to retrofit your building with Lutron Vive. Whether you have a newly built or years-old building, energy-efficiency retrofits can save operating expenses, especially in older buildings. More than that, you can gain a competitive advantage with its upgraded energy performance.

Work with Rock Lighting & Electric to Be Compliant

As a building owner and manager, it is important to take a step to keep your building compliant with these significant energy codes. This step is immensely encouraged to do for new buildings and retrofits to start their buildings with energy-conserving lighting control. If you still haven’t fulfilled these government-instituted codes, Rock Lighting & Electric is here to help you! Let’s lay it out first by simply filling out this lighting layout request form and eventually, be one of the energy-code-compliant building owners!