How to specify Interact Office

A smart and sustainable IoT lighting solution

With IoT lighting systems, professional workplaces become more personalized, more flexible, healthier, more efficient, and more intelligent. Because lighting is installed everywhere that people go, it can serve as a natural means of distributing IoT capabilities throughout a workplace.

Whether you’re an engineer, lighting designer or architect, you can enhance your offering with Interact Office. Interact Office uses connected LED luminaires, sensors, and other connected devices with established networking and cloud architectures to enable data gathering and sharing.

System components

Specification information

Benefits of Interact Office

Reduce lighting energy usage by up to 80%

Stay informed with remote lighting monitoring and management

Optimize space and workplace design with occupancy sensing and people counting

Keep buildings healthy with sensing of temperature, noise, humidity, CO2, VOCs, dust, and pollution

Improve productivity with real-time workspace availability, indoor navigation, and other location services

Create new apps and integrations with open, secure APIs and developer portal

Components of a wireless Interact Office system

Sensors

Interact Office systems can host sensors to collect data about the illuminated environment: motion, light levels, occupancy, people counting, temperature, humidity, air quality, and more. Positioning and density of sensors depends on ceiling height, configuration of space, and other factors.

Standard networking architecture

Wireless gateways, deployed within a company’s standard IT infrastructure, communicate with connected devices via Zigbee. The system uses a bridge to connect with the Interact IoT platform in the cloud. Interact software applications offer Web-based system management, operations, and control.

Wireless communications

Compatible connected devices use wireless communications, based on the Zigbee 3.0 open standard, to participate in a mesh network. The networks is self-healing, so the system continues to operate even if an individual device fails.

Open APIs

Open, secure APIs accessible through the Web-based Interact Developer Portal allow system integrators and application developers to extend Interact with new capabilities, and to integrate Interact data and commands with other connected systems.

Connected devices

Interact Office works with a wide range of connected luminaires, lamps, and sensors from Philips and other participating brands.

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System components

Network devices

Building Connectivity Bridge

Wireless Gateway Pro

IT infrastructure

Router

Switch accessories

Sensors

Wireless battery-powered sensor

Wireless luminaire – based sensor:

SNS400

SC1500

2B/4B ZGP Wireless switch

UID8470

UID8480

SWS200

Luminaires

Lamps

LEDTube

Luminaire integration devices

SR bridge DALI

SR bridge 0-10V for North America

Commissioning accessories

IRT9090

Specification support documents

Interact Office Wireless System Guide

Interact Office Wireless User Guide

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