Legrand, North & Central America and Lumileds has announced a partnership agreement that will bring to market a plug and play solution that delivers quality tunable-white light. Under this agreement, Lumileds will provide light sources (LUXEON-based solutions) through its Matrix Platform that are characterized and programmed to work with the Wattstopper blanco tunable white logic modules within the Wattstopper Digital Lighting Management (DLM) lighting controls solution. Lumileds joins existing Legrand partnerships in tunable-white light engine as a LED array provider.
“The lighting industry is beginning the transition from providing only static white light to enabling dynamic end user selectable color temperature solutions as a subset of what is becoming possible with intelligent and human centric lighting fixtures and controls,” says Steve Barlow, SVP/GM of Lumileds Illumination Business. “We are very excited about the partnership with Legrand and their capability to advance the adoption of tunable lighting. Our joint commitment is to optimize the customer experience by offering perfect fixture-to-fixture color matching over a wide CCT range through simple, seamless integration of light sources into fixtures that interface with Wattstopper tunable white modules and their lighting controls.”
The partnership, combining expertise in LED light sources, drivers, controls and with the blanco intellectual property from Lumenetix Inc., ensures the development of solutions for a range of tunable white applications across commercial, healthcare, hospitality, and education market segments.
The Legrand Wattstopper Blanco 2 is a two-channel LED light engine providing light with a tunable range of 3000K-5000K. With a tunable range of 2700K-6500K, Blanco 3 is a three-channel LED light engine that adjusts correlated color temperatures along the blackbody locus to replicate natural daylight.
Blanco logic modules connect to dedicated LED arrays developed by the Lumileds LUXEON LED-based Matrix Platform. The arrays are available in a range of Zhaga-compliant linear or custom form factors to meet the requirements of lighting fixture manufacturers. Both Blanco light engines provide white light with a color rendering index (CRI) and TM-30 fidelity index of at least 90. Both solutions also provide flicker-free dimming from 100 percent to 0.1 percent.
“Legrand’s collaboration with partners like Lumileds, as a leader in the LED industry, is essential in the adoption of dynamic lighting control,” says Andrew Wale, VP product marketing at Legrand. “As high-performance buildings shift their focus towards a total building performance model, occupant comfort and productivity become paramount. Tunable lighting, as part of this shift and a dynamic lighting control strategy, plays a key role. But its potential is only realized when quality of light can be delivered from an end-to-end solution that integrates lighting source, fixture, and controls with ease of system design, install, commissioning, and first use.”