Quest, a worldwide leader in technology management offering professional, cloud, and managed service, selected SmartCast^® Power over Ethernet (PoE) LED lighting by Cree, Inc. integrated with a Cisco network for its new High Availability Business Center (HABC) in Roseville, California. SmartCast PoE is an intuitively simple, scalable and open platform that helps enable the Internet of Things (IoT) for buildings through better light. The system embeds intelligence to make buildings more efficient and people more productive, while delivering far better light for less energy than ordinary LED lighting systems. 

Cree^® SmartCast PoE is part of the Cisco^® Digital Ceiling framework, which connects disparate systems into a single IP network to create smart, more secure, seamlessly connected building systems. Open in 2014, Quest’s HABC serves as a premier data center, featuring 120,000 square feet of open floor space, including a 24x7 network operations center, co-location, business continuity/disaster recovery, and managed and cloud services tailored for each client.

Cree® SmartCast PoE integrated in Cisco® Digital Ceiling framework is being applied in new High Availability Business Center (HABC) in Roseville, California. (Cree/LEDinside)

“We found Cree SmartCast^® PoE to be the right lighting technology to enhance our business services, as well as a showcase of a potential IT-integrated solution for our clients,” said Vladimir Pivtorak, Quest infrastructure services manager.  “As a Cisco integrator and Cisco Gold partner, we provide resilient, secure, high-performance environments with leading-edge technology for our clients operating out of our IT service delivery centers.”

Cree’s SmartCast PoE LED lighting is integrated with a Cisco standards-based PoE-powered network to create a Digital Ceiling solution.  The solution is deployed within the facility’s data center, employee break room and training room. The installation includes 100 Cree^® CR Series 2’x2’ LED luminaires equipped with SmartCast PoE, offering simplified flexibility with occupancy sensing and color tuning for greater energy efficiency and customized lighting environments.

“Cree’s SmartCast^® PoE enables limitless possibilities and applications through better LED technology,” said David Elien, Cree senior vice president, lighting. “Installations of this nature will help take Intelligent Light far beyond the limits of what’s possible with traditional solutions.”

A meeting room illuminated with Cree’s SmartCast® Manager software maximizes the energy savings of SmartCast PoE connected LED lighting with a OneButton™.(Cree/LEDinside)

Cree’s SmartCast PoE also helps customers achieve aggressive energy-saving goals while enabling additional intelligence benefits, such as control, data collection and analytics.  The result is improved overall operations. Cree’s SmartCast^® Manager software maximizes the energy savings of SmartCast PoE connected LED lighting with a OneButton^™ Setup that commissions an entire building with a solitary stroke. The technology also facilitates a single point of control and visibility into real-time data analytics to identify advanced energy saving strategies.

“The Digital Ceiling deployment at the Quest HABC in Roseville is a landmark project for California’s capital region,” said John Baekelmans, CTO, vertical solutions, Cisco. “The opportunities for the Digital Ceiling framework continue to expand in both private and public sector enterprises further demonstrating that digitizing buildings is becoming the new standard.”

Additionally, SmartCast PoE’s open platform with a standards-based API creates the opportunity for more intelligent features in the future, such as emergency wayfinding and energy demand responsiveness.

Cree SmartCast PoE is commercially available, and additional installs are underway.

Visit www.cree.com/smartcast and http://lighting.cree.com/quest for more information.