The lighting scheme at the BXR Gym was developed by Peter Fordham of DHA designs. Factorylux luminaires were DHA Designs’ first choice: their industrial style fixture detailing fit well with the chic New York / Fight Club spin on the BXR interiors. But above all, their use of Xicato XTM LED modules ensured color consistency and dimming stability in all of their fixtures.
Following a $135 million renovation that united three disparate buildings into one seamless museum, the Yale University Art Gallery opened to the public. Steven Hefferan of Hefferan Partnership Lighting Design (Boulder, Colo.) managed the lighting for 70,000 square feet of gallery space, and the illumination for more than 4,000 works of art in the galleries.
To facilitate the switch from incumbent halogen lighting, Hefferan needed to educate the curators, conservators, and staff from Yale’s different departments on the aspects of LEDs, including the specifics of color temperature and color rendering. For museums and galleries, quality of light and the experience of viewing the artwork are paramount. Hefferan teamed with luminaire manufacturer Lighting Services Inc, (LSI) ─ using Xicato’s Artist Series™ modules ─ to light the artwork in the gallery settings in a variety of ways, allowing the staff to experience firsthand the various LED lamp types. He was able to demonstrate how LED lighting displays truer colors, especially for reds and blues. As a result, the Yale departments chose to move in the direction of LEDs with color temperature of 3000K.
With almost a year allotted to install the galleries and select luminaires before the grand opening, the project greatly benefited from not having to specify exact track-mounted fixtures before the construction. This enabled Hefferan to choose from the latest in LED technology, which he was able to do by employing LSI’s luminaires equipped with Xicato modules for the gallery’s track lighting applications. Ultimately, Hefferan and the museum staff adopted a hybrid approach, combining the use of MR16 halogen lights and Xicato LED modules. LSI provided its museum-grade track lighting systems – surface, pendant, and flangeless profiles.
How do you plan, provision, program and verify the control of 220 networked lights from scratch in 2 days? Xicato XIM modules, Smart Controls, and Control Software proved to be the answer for this complex installation.
Greg Fukushima of GiCor Home Technologies worked with electrical contractor James Robinson of Wave Technical to design and implement a sophisticated, multi-application control system. Greg designed a complex, multi-vendor system.
Over a two-month period, they worked to implement a DALI system but were unable to get the system to function properly. After consulting with the luminaire provider, Senso, they contacted Xicato and started working with Xicato’s Bluetooth Control Solution.
“Thank you for all the great work and support with programming the lights at the Smed residence. In 2 days you programmed the lights via Bluetooth, after we had spent two months trying unsuccessfully to get the fixtures working using Dali and Control4. Plus, you programmed all the fixtures to a safe temperature! (this was my biggest concern).” James Robinson with Wave Technical Ltd.
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“It was essential for the final result to work wirelessly and dynamically with the lighting design during commissioning.”
– Nikolaj Birkelund, Lighting Designer, Fortheloveoflight
The requirements set forth by Fortheloveoflight were clear: Great lighting and a lighting control system that could provide individual light control
with deep, smooth dimming that was simple to set up and simple to use. Xicato’s XIM and Bluetooth smart controls and software were key to realizing the designer’s vision. That XIM has integrated beacons made the choice of Xicato a clear winner.
The nation’s only complete collection of presidential portraits outside the White House, the Presidential Portrait Gallery lies at the heart of the National Portrait Gallery’s mission to tell the American story through the individuals who have shaped it.
In June 2017, the Smithsonian Presidential Portrait Gallery began deploying Xicato GalaXi to control both Xicato XIM and 3rd party light sources in luminaires by Lighting Services Inc. (LSI). Xicato’s Smart Controls and interoperability with the Medialon Building Management System were critical to the project’s success.
Xicato’s XID was an essential control in the project. It is a compact, DC driver that delivers smooth, flicker-free dimming to 0.1% and is controllable using 0-10V or Bluetooth. XID can drive anything from a single LED to a 56W CoB or linear array, and can be flux programmed to operate at maximum current from 350mA to 1400mA. At the Smithsonian, XID is driving a single-LED point source and a framing projector based on a non-Xicato CoB, while the remaining luminaires are based on the XIM Artist Series.
The Smithsonian Medialon controller manages the lights through the open HTTP application programming interface (API) on the IP side of the Xicato Intelligent Gateway (XIG). It took the museum staff just hours to get started with the system, and the entire network was working within 3 days.