My brother is building a 5000+ square foot dog daycare and we are looking at lighting controls. We are looking at around 20 rooms plus a central hallway.
I was thinking about using elk plus upb switches as that is what I have at my personal residence. I dont do too much with the system in my house -> the front lights turn on at dusk, all the lights turn on in an alarm condition, a few scenes for adjusting lights in theater. It works good and I am familiar with it so this is my first choice. In this new building, if I went elk plus UBP, we would likely add some occupancy sensors and build some rules to turn lights off when we arm alarm or when the occupancy sensors indicate a room is not being used for a while.
I set most of my house 6 years ago so I am wondering what new technologies are available?
One thought was to keep it simple and use individual levitron occupancy sensors and their power packs. I like this solution because it should be fairly simple to set up. My biggest concerns are if dogs in crates would set off the occupancy sensors and if we might want to not have lots come on at night if we are trying to deal with a single dog when other dogs are sleeping. It also doesn't allow the alarm to leverage the occupancy sensors or do cool things like turning all the lights on in an alarm condition.
Is there anything else we should be looking at? Building is new so we have lot of flexibility. I am really mostly trying to think about what additional features can be used to justify doing some centralized solution rather then just occupancy sensors in each room. ie.. having all the lights turn off when you arm alarm vs just letting the rooms time out.
I was thinking about using elk plus upb switches as that is what I have at my personal residence. I dont do too much with the system in my house -> the front lights turn on at dusk, all the lights turn on in an alarm condition, a few scenes for adjusting lights in theater. It works good and I am familiar with it so this is my first choice. In this new building, if I went elk plus UBP, we would likely add some occupancy sensors and build some rules to turn lights off when we arm alarm or when the occupancy sensors indicate a room is not being used for a while.
I set most of my house 6 years ago so I am wondering what new technologies are available?
One thought was to keep it simple and use individual levitron occupancy sensors and their power packs. I like this solution because it should be fairly simple to set up. My biggest concerns are if dogs in crates would set off the occupancy sensors and if we might want to not have lots come on at night if we are trying to deal with a single dog when other dogs are sleeping. It also doesn't allow the alarm to leverage the occupancy sensors or do cool things like turning all the lights on in an alarm condition.
Is there anything else we should be looking at? Building is new so we have lot of flexibility. I am really mostly trying to think about what additional features can be used to justify doing some centralized solution rather then just occupancy sensors in each room. ie.. having all the lights turn off when you arm alarm vs just letting the rooms time out.
