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nLight Publishes Whitepaper Describing ABT Technology

03/12/2021 by Lighting Controls Association Leave a Comment

nLight®, an Acuity Brands company, recently published a new whitepaper describing its new nLight Autonomous Bridging Technology (ABT), which increases the range and improves the responsiveness of wireless networked lighting controls across indoor and outdoor spaces and around obstructions.

Through ABT, networked messages are repeated across multiple, already-connected wireless devices. This bridging technology extends messages farther, increasing the wireless range from 3x to 4x in both indoor and outdoor environments. In addition, ABT extends messages around obstructions such as corners, walls, elevators, and stairwells.

Autonomous Bridging Technology extends the lighting controls network while allowing wireless groups to broadcast strong, uniform signals across long distances in unison, creating a robust network without adding unnecessary latency to general operation. Existing nLight AIR devices in a space can be firmware updated to deliver ABT capability. Plus, the device network is self-forming, eliminating the cost and installation challenges associated with dedicated repeater devices.  Over time, the intelligent network will automatically self-improve, ensuring reliable communication even in dynamic spaces.

Autonomous Bridging Technology benefits include:

  • Communicate around corners – Design with confidence, as networked messages will get where they need to go by repeating around obstructions using nearby devices.
  • Enables quicker startup – No additional programming required during setup – devices self-initialize to bridge other devices when needed.
  • Communicate farther, faster – Network groups and their corresponding devices are bridged only when necessary, extending the network and allowing groups to respond more quickly through the star topology of nLight AIR.
  • Creates an intelligent network – The automatically bridged network self-improves over time, eliminating waste.
  • Eliminates need for additional hardware – Repeating messages is possible by simple firmware updates to existing hardware, which reduces the need to add more devices for larger networks.
  • Secure connection – The 5-tier security of nLight AIR extends with the network, so all devices are securely connected to the ioXt® Alliance certified nLight ECLYPSE™ controller.

Click here to download the whitepaper.

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