Technology MNC Building in Pune

Lighting Intelligence Meets Workplace Innovation — Inside an American international financial services company Campus in Pune

In the bustling IT corridor of Pune, a landmark workspace is rewriting how large offices think about efficiency, comfort, and sustainability. This client is housed within the gleaming Prestige Alphatech Towers on Mundhwa–Kharadi Road, spans an impressive 0.9 million square feet. Certified under LEED standards and wrapped in a high-performance glass façade, the development is more than architecture — it is a living example of technology shaping human-centric buildings.

More than just a corporate office, this campus is a fusion of modern design and deep automation intelligence. At its core lies the Athena Lighting Management System by Lutron, orchestrating an ecosystem of digitally addressable lighting, solar-adaptive blinds, and HVAC intelligence. Together, the system creates an environment that thinks, responds, and evolves with changing occupancy and daylight patterns.

A Vision Beyond Fixtures and Switches

Gone are the days when lighting was simply about illumination. For the client, the ambition was to build a workspace that reacts — one that senses presence, reads daylight levels, mitigates glare, shapes ambience, and communicates with the building’s HVAC brain.

The result is a layered smart infrastructure:

• Athena processors communicate over Ethernet,
• DALI lighting loops control fixtures down to individual drivers,
• Wireless keypads offer personal control, and
• Sensors quietly observe motion, daylight and solar exposure.

Along the glazing perimeter, motorised blinds track the sun, lowering when radiation peaks and rising when conditions soften — balancing comfort with cooling efficiency.

Where Smart Controls Meet Human Behaviour

What makes this project remarkable is how technology mirrors human activity.

Walk into a room and lights rise to programmed levels, calibrated to daylight. Leave a space, and within five minutes lighting dims and turns off — while at the same moment, HVAC airflow falls dramatically. Through a BACnet handshake between Athena and the Building Management System, VAV dampers reset airflow almost instantly, creating energy savings far ahead of traditional HVAC response cycles.

Conference rooms act differently. Scenes such as Presentation, Meeting, Discussion or AV Mode change mood and intensity with a single touch. In workstations, daylight harvesting trims unnecessary lighting load, ensuring natural light does the heavy lifting.

Across the building, intelligence adapts — the system doesn’t wait for schedules; it listens to occupancy.

Precision Engineering Behind the Scenes

Creating an intelligent workplace requires invisible rigour. Every DALI device was uniquely identified and mapped. Sensors were tuned for accuracy, shading algorithms aligned with sun angles, BACnet points tested for millisecond responsiveness, and design illumination levels verified at the workplane.

This is not automation installed — it is automation commissioned and calibrated to the building’s behaviour.

Control at Their Fingertips

Perhaps the unsung hero of this deployment is the user experience. Facilities teams access everything through Athena’s graphical interface — from tweaking scenes to monitoring energy trends or diagnosing faults — without calling the OEM each time. It is a workspace that is not just automated, but operationally empowering.

Performance That Speaks Loudly

The outcomes tell the story:

• Occupancy-based HVAC logic enables up to 90% airflow reduction in unused zones.
• Daylight harvesting cuts lighting loads throughout the day.
• Occupants enjoy reduced glare, consistent lux levels, and comfortable ambience.

A Blueprint for Future Workplaces

This Pune campus demonstrates what tomorrow’s smart offices will look like — responsive, data-driven and environmentally conscious. By integrating lighting, shading and HVAC into a unified intelligence platform, this workspace shows how automation can deliver sustainability without compromising user experience.

In a world where buildings are expected to perform, this project stands as a benchmark — a living blueprint for campuses seeking to be efficient, adaptive and deeply human-centric.

Where IDEAA-Z Automation Made the Difference

Transforming this vision into a functioning, high-performance workplace required expertise beyond hardware. IDEAA-Z Automation played a pivotal role in bridging design intent and operational reality. From system engineering, on-site coordination and device commissioning to integration with BMS and calibration of daylight and shading algorithms, IDEAA-Z ensured every component performed as expected. Their detailed validation of BACnet logic, tuning of occupancy responses, and training of facility teams helped unlock the true capability of the Athena platform — enabling a workplace where automation is effortless, reliable, and measurable.