2019-10-25 Lutron Lighting System Setup Meeting notes

Networking for the lights themselves

• we have four quantum processors controllers in the building and each one has an IP and a data line

• right now all scheduling is managed from those controllers

• ITS has an “Environmental Control Network” and this is where they should live.

• Bill provided the addresses back in May and they seem to be on the right network

  • 1st floor: 10.124.44.80

  • 2nd floor: 10.124.44.81

  • 3rd floor: 10.124.44.82

  • 4th floor: 10.124.44.83

Server requirements

• Can’t repurpose an existing server because it needs to exist on the back-office server and configured to the vendor

• Question: Is SQL Server an actual requirement?

  • By default, use SQL Express

• Can we use a workstation instead of a server?

  • Depends on the level of service/performance that we want

  • Might see latency from IIS server on a workstation

• What is the server there and meant to do?

  • Monitoring abilities

  • historical reports of performance

    • how much are rooms occupied?

    • how much are we saving because of dimming or turning lights off

  • Most of the work it does is receive information from the server.

  • Can control things virtually from the user interface - can go through and make programming change

• How long does it retain the usage data?

  • retains granular data on hour by hour functionality for several weeks, starts to consolidate and compact the data the longer in history the data has been there.

• If the server is offline, what happens?

  • It may be possible to cache data locally and send it up to the server

  • All of the lights will continue to work in the event of a server outage

• Does this system need to be considered “highly available”? ***Or really, how long does the controller cache the information?***

• Requirements from Evan:

  • Really about the advanced functionality, i.e. being able to lock out certain functionalities

    • The wall switches would continue to work and the schedules would continue

    • But to change any of these, we need the server

  • In the future, integrate with Scatasystems? - one system for the entire campus for building management - yes, they are compatible for this

• How many hubs can be managed on one server - A Quantum system can have up to 16 processors and up to 10 Quantum systems can go on one server.

• Vendor Access?

  • can support remotely when and how we need it

• Feeds up to the server - unicast. Processors need to talk multi-cast to each other

Windows Server

• SQL Server Express

• IIS

• 16 GB RAM

• 500 GB Storage

• recommend SSD

• Windows Server 2019 is being tested, but not fully vetted.

Timeline

• We can bring this online around January 2020

• Schedule a follow up meeting end of December to discuss the timeline for setup in January.

• Schedule a follow up with Lutron Commissioning Agent

• Lutron Commissioning Agent will need to install some thing

• Training will be scheduled once server is up and running

ToDo

• Need to talk about how to put a server on the Facilities Management Subnet

  • Adam may have some thoughts about this

• Commissioning person will need access to the network that the processors are on

  • Can connect directly to the processor or connect to any port on the network

  • Identify a jack that can be put on that network where they can connect to the VLAN - Evan will identify and communicate this to Adam’s team