Dynalite

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Dynalite is an Australian control company that designs and manufactures technology solutions for lighting control, building automation, home automation and room automation applications and sells its products worldwide. A typical example of the use of their technology would be Energy conservation within a building where outside of office hours the system dims then extinguishes lights in unoccupied areas, information about whether an area is occupied having been gathered from timers and motion detectors connected to the system.

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[edit] Technology

The backbone to their products is called DyNet and is a standard RS485 serial bus across which they broadcast their own propriety 9600 baud eight-bit eight-byte control protocol, and along the same cable they also send low voltage power for use by all but the devices that already have a mains power connection.

Each device contains its own "programmable logic controller" and follows the "peer to peer" model, the main advantage of this is that there is no reliance on a single central controller, the system is capable of a high level of resilience and therefore well suited to situations where total failure could be a safety issue, such as lighting systems in public places.

Though their protocol is proprietary they have interfaces to communicate with many other protocols such RS232, Ethernet, Lonworks, Infrared, DSI, DALI, DMX and analog 0-10V lighting control systems.