Failures Found Before Complaints
Lamp and driver failures arrive as alerts with the address and zone named, read from the DALI gateway.
Solution
Smart Lighting
Offices, retail and campuses run lighting on DALI lines behind gateways and on KNX rooms. IoTServa reads both, so lamp failures, dim levels, energy and emergency test results sit beside the rest of the building.
- DALI
- KNX
- BACnet
- MQTT
The Problem on Site
Lighting is usually the last system anyone looks at. A failed driver is found by a complaint, an emergency test result lives in a controller nobody opens, and lighting energy is invisible inside the floor total.
Typical Equipment
- DALI gateways and application controllers
- DALI-2 and D4i LED drivers
- DALI emergency control gear
- KNX lighting actuators and dimmers
- KNX presence and light-level sensors
What You Get to See
Emergency Tests on Record
Function and duration test results from DALI emergency gear are kept as dated records for audits.
Lighting Energy Separated
Where drivers report D4i energy data, lighting load is trended by zone instead of hiding in the floor meter.
Occupancy and Schedules Checked
Dim levels and on and off states are trended against hours, so lights left on overnight show up in the data.
Protocols in This Setup
Each one is read natively and joins the same tag model.
DALI
Read lamp and driver failures, energy, operating hours and emergency test results from DALI lighting through a DALI gateway or controller, in the same tag model as the rest of the building.
See DALI IntegrationKNX
Listen to KNX group telegrams over KNX IP, map group addresses from your ETS project, and control rooms from one place.
See KNX IntegrationBACnet
Read chillers, air handlers and VAV boxes over BACnet/IP and BACnet MS/TP, with COV subscriptions so changes arrive when they happen.
See BACnet IntegrationMQTT
Subscribe to any broker, publish normalized data back out, and keep topics, QoS and retained state under control.
See MQTT IntegrationWhere We Suggest the Pilot Starts
Start with one DALI line behind an existing gateway and one KNX floor. Prove a lamp failure alert and one emergency test record before adding zones.
Guides for This Setup
BACnet vs Modbus: Which Protocol Fits Which Job
BACnet and Modbus both run buildings and plants, but they model data differently. Compare their networks, discovery and addressing, and see where each fits.
Read the GuideKNX vs BACnet in Buildings: Rooms Versus Plant
KNX controls rooms and BACnet controls plant. See how group addresses differ from BACnet objects, how each is secured, and why hotels and offices run both.
Read the GuideMQTT Topic Naming for Multi-Site IoT Projects
A consistent MQTT topic scheme saves years of pain on multi-site projects. See a simple convention, what to avoid, and how QoS and retained messages fit in.
Read the GuideQuestions for This Setup
Does IoTServa switch or dim the lights?
Pilots start read-only. IoTServa reads status, faults and energy from the DALI gateway or the KNX bus. Commands are a separate permission and always go through the existing controller.
Our lighting is on a vendor system with no DALI gateway. Can it still be read?
Often yes, if the controller exposes BACnet, Modbus, KNX or MQTT. Send the controller model and the engineering team will confirm what it exposes.
Show Us the Smart Lighting Equipment. We Will Scope the Pilot.
Tell us which protocols are on site. We will scope a pilot that reads your real devices.