A command centre for the building. X2 sits on top of your Casambi network and unifies lighting control, energy metering, indoor air quality and emergency lighting compliance into a single interface — commissioned once, then run by the people who occupy the building.
The appliance
The FRANKCAS X2 Server Appliance is a fanless 1U rackmount controller that sits in the comms room. It talks to your Casambi gateways over the local network and keeps everything running — scenes, schedules, circadian curves, sensor logic and emergency test scheduling all execute on the appliance itself.
If the internet drops, the building carries on behaving exactly as commissioned, and the data recorded during the outage is still there when the link returns. Control and history stay inside the building.
FC-X2-SRV-1U · 1U FANLESS · ON-PREMISES
Architecture
Lighting control and life-safety monitoring are different jobs, and X2 keeps them on separate infrastructure. Casambi handles everything the occupant experiences. Tridonic sceneCOM handles the DALI side — emergency lighting testing and air quality sensing. X2 is where the two meet.
Casambi · wireless
Scenes, groups, dimming, schedules, circadian curves and switch inputs. Up to 10 Casambi gateways, around 2,500 devices, over Bluetooth mesh with no control wiring.
Tridonic sceneCOM · wired DALI
Four sceneCOM application controllers connect directly to the appliance, one per Gigabit port, with no extra network hardware. Up to ten are supported by adding a managed switch.
Modules
Everything a facilities team needs to run a lighting installation after the contractor has left site.
Bring devices onto the network, address them, assign them to groups and place them on the plan — in one workflow, with the state of every fitting visible as you go. What was a two-person clipboard exercise becomes a repeatable process with an audit trail.
Devices sit where they physically sit. Select a fitting on the plan to see its status, energy draw, group membership and fault history — and to drive it directly. When a tenant reports a problem, you already know which fitting they mean.
Real-time power and energy against your actual pence-per-kWh, with grid carbon intensity from the UK National Grid layered on top. Consumption is measured against an ISO 50001 baseline, so savings are an evidenced number rather than a claim in a handover pack.
Time, astronomical clock and occupancy driven scheduling, with scenes that can be recalled from the app, a wall switch, a touch panel or a KNX system. Out-of-hours setbacks are usually where the first third of the savings comes from.
Colour temperature and intensity follow a daily curve, warm in the morning and evening and cool through the middle of the day. In care, education and workplace settings this is increasingly specified — and with tunable white Casambi hardware it needs no additional control wiring.
Energy performance indicators, kWh and kgCO₂ per day, performance against baseline, and an open action list. It turns the standard from an annual documentation exercise into something the building reports on continuously.
Maintenance
X2 forecasts fitting replacement across the estate and sorts it into three buckets — critical, due within a year, and on schedule — mapped onto a rolling twelve-month timeline. Budget conversations start from a list rather than a guess, and failures stop arriving as call-outs.
What it runs on
X2 needs a gateway to reach the Casambi network, and sensors to have anything to say about energy and air.
1U rackmount controller that runs X2 on site
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Remote control and data for your Casambi network
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DALI-2 indoor environmental quality sensor
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Wall-mounted Android control panel
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Send us a floor plan, a fixture schedule or just a rough idea of the space. We will come back with a controls layout, a product schedule and a commissioning plan.
