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Evolution - The Revolutionary Lighting Control System

What is Evolution?

An Evolution control system will bring many benefits to your home, enabling you to enjoy a "digital lifestyle" to the full. Enjoy the luxury of home-automation technology at an affordable price.A lighting control system adds elegance and sophistication to the design of any home, inside and out. Simple and stylish control plates eliminate the need for banks of switches and dimmers on the wall, giving your walls an aesthetically pleasing appearance. Plates are available in a range of metal finishes that coordinate with any home. Lighting levels can be set to enhance architecture, décor, and artwork. The ability to preset lighting to entertain, create a mood, or light a path in the night, are just a few of the endless possibilities a system offers.

Automation: Many inputs other than control plates can be used with your Evolution system. For example, whenever a motion sensor notices that someone has walked into a room, it can trigger on the room lights. When the room is unoccupied, the sensor can signal the system to turn off the not only the lights, but also the sound system, home-cinema etc. Evolution´s built-in real-time-clock enables you to schedule automatic events, or to alter the behaviour of parts of your system. For example you could automatically disable your bathroom fan at night, or set the lights to fade on more slowly. Automatic astronomical linking means that you can have your interior and exterior lights turn on at sunset and turn off at a pre-determined time later in the evening.

You take control of anything from anywhere: The attractive Evolution Control plates can be configured to control any part of your house from anywhere. A single button can be set to ensure that all lights are switched off in all parts of the building. For example, a "Goodbye" button at the front door can be configured to turn off all the lights and close all the blinds.

Sophistication Doesn´t Mean Complication: Evolution is fully configurable, allowing control methods to be designed to fit the way you think.

Save Money: By programming the light levels at 95% rather than 100% you will prolong lamp-life. Use of occupancy sensors and automatic timed switch-off will save energy and reduce your overall electricity bill. Evolution systems will therefore pay for themselves over time.

Evolution is a revolutionary control system for both lighting and systems integration, offering unparalleled levels of configurability and scalability. Breaking away from the limitations of conventional lighting control methods, such as zoning and fixed button-to-scene operation, Evolution opens up a world of possibilities, offering significant benefits for designers, architects, specifiers, installers and end users.

Feature-rich Power and Processor packs interface to all popular lighting interfaces including DSI, 0-10v and DMX. Each pack also includes an RS232 interface for interfacing with AV systems, and a real-time clock for scheduled events or seasonal variation. Automatic astronomical calculation is built-in to enable lighting changes to be linked to local sunrise/sunset times. Extra RS232 or Infra-Red (IR) modules can be added with ease.

An Evolution system consists of one or more Power and Processor Packs, stylish control plates with 2, 5 or 10 buttons, LCD plates with 10 buttons and a number of useful accessories such as relay packs for blind or projector-screen control. Configuration of the entire system is achieved using our simple-to-use Windows-based software. Programming is performed centrally, from any point on the network.

Scenes can be created containing any number of lighting circuits from one lamp to a whole skyscraper. Scenes may also contain RS232 or IR commands to operate AV systems, change the colour or legend of a control plate, or operate relay contacts to open and close blinds. Any input to the system, which may be a button on a control plate, an Infra-red remote control, or even the built-in astronomical clock may trigger any output scene.

Simple and stylish control plates eliminate the need for banks of switches and dimmers on the wall, giving your walls an aesthetically pleasing appearance. Plates are available in a range of metal finishes that coordinate with any home. Lighting levels can be set to enhance architecture, décor, and artwork.

The ability to preset lighting to entertain, create a mood, or light a path in the night, are just a few of the endless possibilities a system offers. Automation: Many inputs other than control plates can be used with your Evolution system.

For example, whenever a motion sensor notices that someone has walked into a room, it can trigger on the room lights. When the room is unoccupied, the sensor can signal the system to turn off the not only the lights, but also the sound system, home-cinema etc. Evolution´s built-in real-time-clock enables you to schedule automatic events, or to alter the behaviour of parts of your system. For example you could automatically disable your bathroom fan at night, or set the lights to fade on more slowly. Automatic astronomical linking means that you can have your interior and exterior lights turn on at sunset and turn off at a pre-determined time later in the evening.

You take control of anything from anywhere: The attractive Evolution Control plates can be configured to control any part of your house from anywhere. A single button can be set to ensure that all lights are switched off in all parts of the building. For example, a "Goodbye" button at the front door can be configured to turn off all the lights and close all the blinds. Sophistication Doesn´t Mean Complication: Evolution is fully configurable, allowing control methods to be designed to fit the way you think. Save Money: By programming the light levels at 95% rather than 100% you will prolong lamp-life.

Use of occupancy sensors and automatic timed switch-off will save energy and reduce your overall electricity bill. Evolution systems will therefore pay for themselves over time.

RESOURCES

We have included the following downloadable resources for SceneStyle / Evolution, which are in PDF format and require the FREE Acrobat Reader software, which can be downloaded by clicking here.

SceneStyle Brochure (10.2Mb)

SceneStyle User Guide (33.1Mb)

Evolution Key Points Sheet (111Kb)

Evolution 10 button LCD Screwless Switchplate (314Kb)

Evolution 10 button Single Gang Screwless Switchplate (332Kb)

Evolution 5 button Single Gang Screwless Switchplate (314Kb)

Evolution 2 button Single Gang Screwless Switchplate (161Kb)

Evolution 03-18 Power & Processor Unit (152Kb)

Evolution 03-36 Power & Processor Unit (171Kb)

Evolution 06-09 Power & Processor Unit (149Kb)

Evolution 06-18 Power & Processor Unit (163Kb)

Evolution 10-06 Power & Processor Unit (150Kb)