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Events and policies – CommScope Redwood version 3.2 User Manual

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Commissioning and Administration User Guide

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Events and Policies

A Policy is a set of rules that define what to do—which actions are performed by the lights in a

specific Location. A Policy identifies the light levels, occupancy mode and timeouts, and when

to turn daylight harvesting on and off.

An Event is a set of rules that define when to perform an action on the lights. An Event can be:

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Scheduled and recurring, such as “Do this every workday”

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Scheduled, nonrecurring, such as “Do this on a holiday”

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Unscheduled, such as “Do this when the utility company wants us to save power”

Each Event has an associated Policy. The Policy becomes active when the Event’s schedule

specifies or when the Event receives a manual or external trigger. A single Policy can be

triggered by many different Events.

Locations and Fixtures are automatically assigned a default set of Policies. You can modify

these Policies or create new ones to accommodate the needs of the occupants and meet

energy- savings targets.

It is also possible to create Scenes for short Events like a presentation. These Scenes can

adjust a Location’s Fixtures to different brightness levels to achieve the desired lighting effect.

You can assign specific Scenes to the buttons of the Scene Control Wall Switch to allow

users to override the current Scene. When the need is over, the Scene can be deactivated to

return the room’s lighting control to its regularly scheduled Event/Policy combination.

Task-Tuning is also configurable from the Control tab within Redwood Manager. This allows

individual lights to be dimmed or brightened in response to specific needs at that Fixture’s

Location.

If you have a number of Locations to commission, it is more efficient to identify the Events you

want and which Policies are globally applicable, and then create them in one session. Assign

the Events and Policies to one Location to verify the configuration before copying or exporting

them to other Locations. This process generates more consistent Policies and is easier to

maintain and manage.

IMPORTANT NOTE

The Location Commissioning of the lighting system should be complete before investing effort

defining and modifying policies – please refer to The Location Commissioning Process

Section for instructions on completing this process.