Nyx Hemera Technologies’ LPC 480 Achieves UL 916 Certification

April 26, 2018

Nyx Hemera Technologies’ Local Product Controller (LPC 480) has been certified to apply the UL mark, as per UL 916 – Standard for Energy Management Equipment.

Part of Nyx Hemera Technologies’ solution for road tunnel lighting control, the Tunnel Lighting Addressable Control System (TLACS), the LPC 480 is a small controller that controls and monitors tunnel luminaires from the TLACS’ lighting control cabinet. The LPC 480 has been designed to be installed in any tunnel luminaire electrical installation from 120 to 480 VAC. It uses powerlines (existing wiring) for the communication between the luminaires and the main lighting control cabinet.

UL 916 certified equipment such as LPC 480 controls electrical loads by responding to sensors or transducers monitoring power consumption, by sequencing, by cycling the loads through the use of preprogrammed data logic circuits, or any combination thereof. Devices responding to signals from a utility company may receive the signals over the power lines or as radio signals.

Nyx Hemera’s team uses advanced methods that combine time and frequency domain modulation techniques as well as multiple concurrent receivers to overcome noise and signal attenuation on powerlines. Using up to 8 frequency channels at an adaptive communication speed from 360bps to 23000bps, this technique already achieves an ultra-robust communication in over 50 tunnels all around the world.

Nyx Hemera Technologies will be demonstrating the LPC 480 in the TLACS at Lightfair 2018, taking place in Chicago May 8-10.

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