Semiconductor giant ARM, turns to Prolojik for PoE smart building tech

ARM Holdings’ new £90 million 18,580m2 headquarters building located in Cambridge is one of the most technologically advanced and extensive implementations of smart lighting in the world. The facility accommodates 2,500 of Arm’s innovators providing office, research and meeting spaces.

Lightmatrix PoE Lighting

Prolojik delivered the detailed design and all active equipment for what is one of the worlds largest PoE lighting installations utilising our Lightmatrix system. We worked with over a dozen suppliers to integrate our LX-LED drivers into everything from downlighters, through office lights to linear fittings, providing both constant current and constant voltage drivers in wattages up to 60W over PoE. In all, we independently control around 6000 light sources over PoE within the building. 

Integration with sensors, switches and scene panels, enables optimised occupation, illuminance and scene control.

All lighting is wired back to the IDF rooms using CAT6 cable using a cost-effective data basket, with the cabling quantity defined by wattage allowing daisy-chaining of luminaires. Prolojik provided 42U services racks containing our 48-port LX848 PoE lighting switches. Each switch provides up to 3kW of lighting power at 56V fed from integral auto-changeover hot-swappable power supplies.

In total, Arm ABCD contains 70 LX848 switches internetworked between eight IDF rooms using CAT6 and Fibre networks using our LX800E fibre gateways.

A unique feature of Lightmatrix is its ability to not only support any luminaire suppliers’ fixtures, but also fully support emergency lighting. Lightmatrix support self-contained emergency lighting for 3-hour emergency autonomous operation along with fully automated emergency testing and reporting over PoE. This significantly reduced the cabling demand and allowed the delivery of a unified system.

Proxima LBS Networks

Arm ABCD deploys over 1000 of Prolojik’s Proxima Bluetooth LBS (Location-Based Services) multi-sensor, networked through 30 of our Bluetooth hubs. The sensor network supports lighting management with occupancy and illuminance data and enables detailed space usage insight.

We have engineered the Proxima sensors allows accurate trilateration of people and assets within the building, achieving 1m radius accuracy within 30 seconds. The sensors additionally support Google Eddystone and Apple iBeacon protocols allowing indoor way points and targeted messaging.

AV Integration

Prolojik’s PN350 AV gateways are installed in 120 locations to provide integration between the audio/video system and the lighting control.

IP Supervisor

Prolojik has provided our Perspective supervision platform on dedicated rack servers within the IDF rooms allowing full monitoring and control of the Lightmatrix and base-build lighting systems. Features include real-time control, emergency lighting management, scheduling, and integration APIs for extracting space analytics data from the Proxima sensor network. This data will be used by the client to deliver user experience mobile Apps to the building users.

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