Crestron announced today that it is now shipping Zūm, which makes design, setup and management of lighting control in any space fast, easy and affordable.

Zūm gives lighting designers everything they need for complete lighting control in almost any space with just a few devices.

The Zūm Network Bridge snaps onto the Zūm Load Controller to add remote setup, day-lighting, time clock scheduling, temporary overrides and other advanced capabilities, enabling scaling from standalone systems to centralised building-wide control and network management.

All the essential ‘building block’ devices (wireless dimmers, switches, sensors, etc.) needed for dimming and automation are engineered to work together wirelessly and setup only requires a few taps on a keypad, dimmer, or mobile app.

A single load controller can support up to 32 devices and each device has a wireless communication range of 45m in every direction. Communication hops from one device to the other to create a mesh network of up to 210,000m². Centralised building-wide lighting control can be deployed using the same devices as standalone systems.