System Features:
    • Distributed Control System.
    • Extra Low Voltage control wiring.
    • Can reduce amount of T.P.S. in lighting circuits – save money, resources and labour.
    • Can increase functionality available to user.
    • Ability to integrate security, smoke detection and emergency lighting.
    • Very flexible – can be reconfigured in minutes.
    • Robust – long life, quality components used throughout construction.
    • Designed and built to comply to RoHS, CE and A/NZ 4000 standards.
    • Simple to install and configure.
    • Potential energy savings
    • Ability to monitor / meter power usage.
    • Potential Health benefits – reduces amount of mains frequency radiation in living and sleeping spaces.

 

  

Since the wide spread adoption of electrical lighting in the nineteen hundreds, controlling the lights in buildings has either been rudimentary or costly to provide additional functionality and features.

Several systems have appeared in recent times which are capable of providing high levels of functionality. While they do what they claim, they mostly suffer from some major draw-backs.

The Engineers and technicians at JF2 have a huge amount of experience in the electrical industry and industrial control systems. They took this knowledge and their experiences with other products available and created Local Area Telemetry Architecture, the under-pinning platform that the LATA control system is based on.

The result is a distributed control system that reduces the amount of mains cable required to wire the lighting system in most buildings while providing features and benefits that are often expensive, technically difficult, or impossible, and/or complex to set-up.

The LATA Control system is simple, logical and easy to expand. Based on small modules which are easy to position close to the fittings they control. The control circuits are wired using plug in premade cables or wired directly to the terminals on the modules

 

  

By following a few simple rules, the LATA Control system is easy to install and allows for the utilisation of lower skilled installers that do not require Trade qualifications for the control wiring – saves costs and expands the range of labour available to undertake installation work.

Additional Functionality

With the LATA Control system, it is simple to provide multi-way switching systems as well as master or global control functions to turn all lights on or off from one point.
 
M2 Node

For example: In a domestic situation a switch in the hallway could control all lights in the house, a global on/off to control selected lights, or any individual or set of lights.

If a scheduler node is fitted to the system, then Time of Day (TOD) functions can be set to operate controls according to time events. e.g. turning on outside lights, turning off cupboard lights after 5 minutes, time delay on shower fans, or fixed time heated towel rails.

In a commercial situation, the lights operate in normal fashion during working hours. Then at 6:30, the system goes into after-hours mode, where pushing a light switch gives 1 hour of light, and warns just before automatically turning off. Another push of the switch will request another hour. This saves power where people forget to torn the lights off as they leave, thinking someone else will.

Most time settings are changable, able to be altered to suit user preference, working times and weekends/public holidays.
For more information contact:

JF2 Limited, Core Facilities Building, Waikato Innovation Park, Ruakura Lane, P.O. Box 5436, Hamilton 3242, New Zealand P: +64 7 857 0855