Setting up your installation¶

The following sections describe the procedures to configure the smartengine installation to achieve the desired behavior and performance. The following are the prerequisites that should be complete before you start on tasks below (also referred to as commissioning).

Commissioning Overview¶

The system can be commissioned by using its web browser based management interface called smartmanager. The process of commissioning involves the following steps performed using the smartmanager¹:

• Setting up the networking configuration and forming a cluster. A cluster of smartengines and smartdirector work together as a one unified system for management and operation.
• Configuring the rooms and spaces as locations. A location is a virtual entity that represents a space or collection of spaces. The locations are organized as a hierarchy that best represents the layout of the installation. Building, floors, offices, corridors can all be represented as locations in the system. Locations can then be configured for desired lighting behaviors, data gathering and other features of the system.
• Setting up fixtures. Every smartengine endpoint is represented as a fixture. Fixtures can be named and assigned to locations where they reside by mapping the physical smartengine endpoints to the fixture entities in the system.
• Defining different lighting behaviors desired in each location and the schedule or event that governs when the behavior is in effect. Lighting behaviors are defined in the system as policies. Daylight harvesting, occupancy settings, light levels are some of the settings that are defined as a part of a policy. Schedules and events are triggers like time of day, or manual events like wall controller actions that activate different policies in the locations.
• The commissioning process ends with a walkthrough of the space to validate that all spaces are working as intended. The system commissioned data can be generated as a tabular reports for future references.