The flexibility of the Redwood architecture permits major energy savings in a number of ways:

• Flexible Scheduling—Beyond the standard times of the day, day of the week, holidays or seasonal adjustments, Redwood’s per-light and full range dimming options lets users create very sophisticated scene and flexible schedule control, with per-light policies based on time of day, as well as occupancy or other factors.
• Tailored Occupancy—The presence or absence of people can be accurately detected with greater sensitivity enabling presence, vacancy modes, as well as new occupancy modes (follow-me and “orbing”) not possible without fine-grained motion sensors in a space.
• LED Technology—Depending on the application, LED fixtures are a significantly more efficient light source than alternatives.
• Centralized driver—LED driver efficiency can be increased to greater than 90% for every light, under all load conditions, with full range dimming, while maintaining greater than .90 power factor.
• Load shedding for demand response—Changes can be made to lighting load dynamically or automatically to respond to utility rate program changes, pricing signals or incentives. All with minimal impact to a building's occupants.
• Daylight harvesting—Every light in the system automatically responds to changing ambient light levels throughout the day, saving energy whenever possible.
• Advanced dimming & task tuning—Lights can be dimmed to specific tasks, work conditions and user preferences.
• Reduced heating load—Approximately 20-40% of a building's heating load comes from lighting. By their nature, a more efficient LED light source will lessen the heat load on a building. Additional savings can come from the additional reduction in heat by either turning lights off, or dimmed, with Redwood technology.
• Visibility & reporting—It is possible to monitor power usage in each light space, as well as know the status of every light, including its install date, operating conditions and lighting efficiency.
• Lumen depreciation & fault management—Detect all light levels, all line and LED voltages/losses.
• Alternative energy ready—Future releases of the Redwood solution have the potential to incorporate solar, fuel cell and other advanced energy sources with DC outputs that could be directly connected to the Redwood engine to achieve unprecedented system efficiencies and energy savings.

By tying together all lighting through a programmable fabric, Redwood Systems will created an integrated lighting system that is intelligent, automated, scalable, and will typically save 50-75% of the energy used to light a commercial building.