With a second iteration - now including exterior lighting controls - due out in June, the DesignLights Consortium's Networked Lighting Controls (NLC) Technical Requirements specification is gathering momentum with manufacturers and utilities. Serving as a resource for utilities in designing rebate programs for networked layers of lighting control, the NLC spec outlines the most basic requirements for an effective system and reports optional capabilities. In designing their programs, utilities can call out individual optional capabilities as requirements; several plan to focus on luminaire-level, integrated controls.
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