Specification

Expert Touch 5 wall station (XPT 5)

A. General
i.	The Station shall be a microprocessor-based system specifically designed for triggering lighting control in an architectural or entertainment application. A personal computer running emulation software shall not be acceptable. 
ii.	The Station shall have a fully integrated 5” capacitive touch screen, driven by the application running on the microprocessor. A web browser displaying remotely served content shall not be acceptable.
iii.	The touch screen application shall be dedicated to displaying a user interface for the Station. No other processes shall run.
iv.	The appearance and content of the user interface may be customized by the user.
v.	The user interface may be used in landscape or portrait orientation.
vi.	The Operating Software of the Station shall be stored in a dedicated non-removable non-volatile solid-state memory. It shall be possible to update the Operating Software by download from a remote personal computer over an Ethernet connection.
vii.	The Station shall allow lighting to be controlled as separate spaces, with independent scene playback and override and mastering controls.
viii.	The Station shall support an ambient light sensor, configured to automatically adjust the brightness of the screen backlight.
ix.	The Station shall be capable of providing system feedback via the user interface.
x.	The Station shall have a recessed switch for resetting the unit without removal of power.
xi.	No physical buttons shall be visible or exposed when the Station is correctly installed.
xii.	The Station shall have an internal watchdog feature that will restart the unit in the event of software failure.
xiii.	Multiple Stations shall be supported at one time.
xiv.	The Station shall be provided with a 5-year manufacturer warranty.

B. Physical
i.	The capacitive touch screen shall be 5” with a resolution of 800x480 and 24bit colour depth and support multiple, concurrent touch points. 
ii.	The Station shall be provided with a mounting plate.
iii.	The mounting plate shall be fixed directly to a surface or with a US or EU single-gang backbox, UK single- or double-gang backbox.
iv.	The mounting plate will provide mounting holes for mating screws to compatible backboxes. 
v.	The station will mount on the mounting plate via a toolless installation using a bayonet-twist.
vi.	No tools should be required to remove the station from the mounting plate.
vii.	The unit shall be entirely solid-state with no moving parts or fans.
viii.	The unit shall not protrude more than 18mm from the surface it is mounted on.
ix.	The unit shall operate in a temperature range from 0°C to 50°C (32°F to 122°F).
x.	The unit shall be CE and UKCA compliant.
xi.	The unit shall be UL/cUL listed.

C. Electrical
i.	The Station shall support an RJ45 socket for 10/100Base-TX Ethernet.
ii.	The Station shall be able to receive Power over Ethernet (IEEE 802.3af PoE powered device).

D. Software
i.	The Station shall be supported by user interface creation software running on either a PC or Mac platform.  User interface configuration features shall include:
a.	Choice of which aspects of a project is displayed to a user
b.	Selection between a series of pre-defined page types with additional options
c.	Controls that are pre-designed and populated with relevant project data for selected spaces
d.	Optional lockout settings
e.	Choice between different interface designs, navigation options and visual styles