Delta BIC Solution Wins Alighting Award for Technology Excellence

Delta's Bluetooth® Intelligent Control (BIC) has won the 2020 8th Alighting Award for excellence in technology. The award-winning BIC solution uses lighting fixtures to build a mesh network in a building. The solution is able to not only adjust the light brightness and color temperature, but also create a comfortable and healthy lighting environment. It can also transmit and receive information through the connected lighting network at the same time. The system enables multiple applications such as assets positioning, indoor navigation, and scheduling.

The Delta BIC Solution is recognized for its excellence in technology for the following three important features:
1. The USB interface of the LED driver is compatible with different communication modules, which effectively shortens the product development cycle and reduces the costs of testing and future maintenance.
2. The use of lighting fixtures as nodes in a communication mesh can solve the issues of communication, power supply of the sensor network, wiring and deployment locations.
3. Using the Bluetooth module of the lighting fixtures as a receiving device for location information can enhance coverage of the network and accuracy of positioning, which ensures the maximum use of the remaining bandwidth of the wireless lighting control system.

The Delta BIC solution was implemented at the Changhua Christian Hospital in Taiwan, where its smart dimming and scheduling control were adopted to achieve energy efficiency, delivering a total energy savings up to 76.9%. In addition to lighting control and energy efficiency, the connected lighting mesh network can create a tracking system for medical equipment. The BIC solution was installed in general wards, intensive care wards, and ER observation rooms. Nurses can carry out automatic asset checks throughout the system without having to search everywhere for equipment. This reduces the workload for assets checking, and the manpower needed during handover, which further improves property security.