More Solutions Ltd has worked with leading architects, lighting designers and electrical contractors to provide lighting control solutions since its incorporation in 2002. With expertise in high profile national stadiums, office buildings, Retail sheds and manufacturing facilities along with other commercial premises, More Solutions has developed and supported leading edge solutions using a wide variety of lighting control protocols, including DALI, C-Bus, D-bus and xComfort.
We are technology led, and not tied to one vendor.
We are a software engineering company, with founders and employees from industrial and commercial software and control backgrounds. We retain significant experience in these fields, and as integrators we build solutions combining the strengths of these technologies, for example lighting control systems built a platform including SCADA, redundant database and web systems, communicating with – and providing a unifying interface to – a variety of lighting systems on the same site, from toilets and offices through to bowl floodlighting, with local controls through to building-wide schedules and overrides (such as event lighting and stadium concert blackouts).
We like open systems and protocols. We don’t like vendor lock-in.
As such, when selecting technology partners to work with, we look for interoperability, for standard and open protocols. When integrating with high level systems like BMS this includes protocols like OPC, BACnet, etc. And at the lighting control level it’s important that any local network interfaces are similarly open to communication from above.
We know DALI.
Whilst DALI has been in existence for decades, its strengths as a unifying standard across multiple manufacturers has become especially significant during the widespread adoption of dimmable LED lighting, and with DALI-2 also standardising input devices such as PIRs and switches we believe that no other lighting technology offers the flexibility and interoperability that DALI and DALI-2 provide as standard.
DALI itself however only defines the protocol and standards at the level of a single DALI line. Many manufacturers have developed products which allow multiple DALI lines to communicate between each other and with the wider world. Often called something like a zone or floor controller, the way these link to each other will be defined by the manufacturer, as will how – and indeed if – they can be integrated with other systems.
We like RAPIX!
Enter Ozuno Pty, an Australian company with decades of experience in the lighting control industry, and their RAPIX range of products. There are lots of features of the RAPIX system that appeal to us as integrators, but it is this openness and interoperability which is their key strength for us. Rather than a proprietary cabling system/protocol between zone controllers, RAPIX uses industry standard Ethernet, and for communications with other systems support for Modbus and BACnet is included as standard, along with a powerful and well documented API.
Our decision to stock and sell RAPIX products in the UK and across Europe stems from our desire to make these products easier to obtain on this side of the planet. After all, why should Australians keep this technology to themselves? We are more than happy to supply RAPIX hardware to other integrators, as well as providing support as needed. We can also provide an engineering resource.
As the Australians say: “Think DALI, think RAPIX – Lighting Control Made Easy!”