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Building Control Technology – Future Proofing Your Investment

Building Control Technology - How Do I Future Proof My Investment? There is a focus on ensuring NEW buildings are “smart” particularly when it comes to their ability to meet energy saving goals and achieve energy efficiency ratings such as...

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IoT Building Technology – Enticing Staff Back To The Workplace

How Can Workplaces Compete with “Working From Home”? With New Zealand currently operating at “Red” under the COVID-19 traffic light system and as we wait for Omicron to take hold, causing the issues with staffing and supply that we’ve seen...

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environmental cost of your control system

The True Cost of Your Control System – Financially and Environmentally

What is the True Cost of Your Control System? With climate change accepted as the dominant threat to our world, we are encouraged as individuals to consider how small changes we can each make right now, can have a positive...

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“Native DALI” – What Does It Mean?

What does the term "native DALI" actually mean? DALI (Digital Addressable Lighting Interface) is quite simply a communication language. It is a way to communicate with, and therefore control, devices such as lighting ballasts/drivers, and other lighting equipment. Devices that...

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When A Lighting Controls Upgrade Is Essential

Does Your Building Need a Lighting Controls Upgrade? How often in the last 15 years have you upgraded to new technology? Are you still on dial-up internet? Do you use a “not so smart” phone and therefore a separate digital...

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Plan View

Plan View We find consultants, facility managers and maintenance engineers LOVE zencontrol’s ‘Plan View technology. Free Plan View ‘Plan View’ comes free with any zencontrol system. Clients with zencontrol on their sites are provided with a standard Cloud subscription and…

Lighting Design Students Hosted at IEL

In July we hosted an interactive session at our knowledge centre in Rosebank Road for students enrolled in a graduate certificate programme in lighting design at Massey University. With a growing demand for smart drivers (DALI) in the commercial industry,...

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How Do I Make My Building Smarter (and Safer)?

The big leap forward with any building automation system is the online connectivity of lighting, sensors and other IoT devices that enable the analysis of data and building usage to optimise day to day operations. With the integration of a…