This week, we’re thrilled to highlight our newest lighting control offering, Steinel. Steinel offers lighting controls that span from simple code-compliant tools all the way to their Digital Control Solutions and COEUS platform for total energy monitoring and management.
Let’s get right to it.
When it comes to lighting control, we all want products and systems that just work. It’s essential that they are simple to specify, easy to install, and intuitive to use day-to-day while meeting stringent energy codes. That’s why we really like the Steinel family of lighting control solutions.
Traditional Stand-Alone Controls
Without going through the entire product line (which you can find here), Steinel offers a whole host of traditional lighting control tools. High-quality sensors for every application and location of the building indoors and out. You’ll find a host of presence detection devices on the website with various ranges and expected applications. And, of course, there are durable keypads to pair with these solutions. A power pack drives them, as you would expect. What makes Steinel stand out is its reliability, speed to ship, and competitive pricing.
Digital Control Solution
Beyond the basic power pack driven assemblies you would expect, Steinel has developed its Digital Control Solution (DCS) platform. This allows for networked solutions that enable more global control of your lighting and energy management. DCS devices are discoverable over BACnet, making it possible to trigger HVAC actions from inputs of Steinel presence detection (occupancy/vacancy) sensors.
At the heart of the DCS platform is the DCS controller. What we really like about the Steinel design is the simplicity of the design hides the advanced capabilities of the device. Here are the out-of-the-box features of the DCS Controller:
- 3 x 20A Relays (expandable)
- 3 Channels of 0-10v dimming
- Current monitoring per relay for energy management and demand response
- Automatic Daylight harvesting
- Partial on & off
- External time clock input
- Internal time clock
- Astronomic time functions
- Light Scenes
- Wireless BLE mesh interconnectivity
- BACnet IP
- Commissioning via Bluetooth Mesh / Smartphone App
Options via specification
- ELV/MLV Dimming
- Receptacle Control
This elevates the room controller to automatically being a smart device that can be networked but doesn’t require networking.
COEUS – Dead simple commissioning software
When you’re designing a more sophisticated building for a client that wants/requires higher levels of energy management and system integration, that’s where COEUS (pronounced See-US) comes in. This software platform is built upon the DCS architecture. A simple rack-mounted processor connects to the BACnet network, allowing customized commissioning, including scene creation, sequence of operations, energy management protocols, Keypad setting adjustments, utility demand response, and even HVAC and shade control.
From the simplest update to the most sophisticated designs
Some jobs need a power pack and a sensor; some need campus-wide network lighting management software, and most jobs are somewhere between. What we really like about Steinel is that we can climb the ladder of solutions from the most simple to the most sophisticated designs. But at each level we will be at very competitive prices with fast lead time.
And, of course, the SDA Lighting and Controls team is ready to stand behind this from initial design consultation all the way through commissioning.
