The lighting industry is developing rapidly with the introduction of smart lighting with sensors. This growing marketplace includes office interiors, factories, smart homes, and street lighting. Find your lighting solution and stay current with all the major standards and next-generation requirements with Amphenol’s array of innovative lighting products.
Street Lighting with Sensors
From incandescent streetlamps to today’s modern motion sensing intelligent lighting, street lighting has gone through tremendous enhancements over the years. Most of the lamps you see in the street sides come with various sensors from the ones that identify a vehicle or pedestrian and adjust the luminance accordingly, to the ones that send traffic information through GPS. Amphenol offers lighting connectors for dimming and sensor applications in IoT-based street lighting, like FLS series connectors compliant to Zhaga Book 18, FLA receptacles, and FLB Bases compliant to NEMA standards.
Zhaga Book 18 FLS Series for Outdoor Smart Lighting
As the lighting industry is expanding, it targets on seamless data transfer with integrated lighting controls and sensors apart from basic luminary functions. Amphenol being a leader in technological innovations is keen to stay a step ahead in providing, connector solutions that meet the increasing demands along with complying with the industry standards. While FLM series (Zhaga Book 20) connectors cater to the advanced requirements of interior lighting like air quality testing to light level controlling and presence detection, we have also the new FLS series connectors adhering to the Zhaga Book 18 requirements. This connector helps in creating a smart interface between outdoor luminaires and sensing/communication nodes for typical applications in the roadway and smart city lighting.
The FLS Receptacle is designed with 4 contacts for Power, DALI and Digital I/O, and mounts on a Luminaire, supporting smart lighting controls, sensor applications, and wireless communication. The housing for a Photocell/Sensor Module assembly is made of mating FLS Base /Extension Module and Dome. The receptacle is compatible with and mates to all Photocells built with an Amphenol Book 18 Base/Extension Module and mounts to the luminaire in a single hole with mounting nut and gasket allowing easy installation. These are offered in both 40mm and 80mm diameters, as well as any certified Zhaga Book 18 extension module, and hence can support various application requirements.
FLA Series Dimming Receptacle ANSI C136.41 Compliant
The FLA Series Dimming Receptacle - ANSI C136.41 is designed with power and dimming/signal contacts to provide a connection between dimmable photocell and the luminaire for street and roadway lighting.
FLA Dimming Receptacle are made with UL94V-0 high temperature resistant thermoplastic housing and are rated up to 15A per power contact.
How to Choose Outdoor Lighting Connectors?
Apart from street lighting, with smart and intelligent buildings, outdoor lighting is also getting smarter. From home outdoors to commercial parking and billboards, you come across various outdoor luminaires each day. However, the connector solutions vary from application to application. Amphenol offers outdoor Ethernet solutions that are Power over Ethernet (PoE) capable with Cat5E performance, which are ideal for smart lighting with sensors that can be remotely managed. We also offer IP67 outdoor locking connectors that can withstand harsh environments.
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Smart Interior Lighting Solutions
Interior lighting in intelligent buildings in the present-day performs as wireless devices supporting Ethernet, Bluetooth, and Zigbee connectivity. The light modules in smart homes and convenience stores can communicate with consumers’ smartphones allowing direct remote control as well as provide real-time information. These smart lights are Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) and Power-over-Data-Line (PoDL) capable.
Zhaga Book 20 FLM Series for Interior Lighting
Amphenol’s offers for interior lighting solutions are governed by well-known lighting standards in the industry, ANSI/NEMA, and Zhaga. The FLM series which was chosen as the design standard for Zhaga Book 20 specifies 2 position connectors identified as Luminaire Extension Module Receptacles (LEX-MR) and Luminaire Plugs (LEX-LP), used for DALI-2 (Digital Addressable Lighting Interface) applications. DALI-2 is a smart interface protocol between indoor luminaires and sensors and communication modules.
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