Traffic Shoes Project

Medley, Florida

When Traffic Shoes outgrew their previous headquarters, the owners wanted to make a statement with their new building. They designed a big, bold building with lots of windows for natural light. Along with these large windows, came the need for window treatments. The lobby area has 33 foot tall windows on the East, South and West exposures and the owners needed sun protection but they also wanted to have the maximum amount of natural light.

The answer came in the form of Nysan Motorized Shades with ESI Remotely Queryable, Bi-directional, and Universal Input AC Motor Controls (RQ60AUMHG) from ESI. Each motor had one RQ60AUMHG and they were individually and group controlled by a 12 button ESI keypad in the lobby and a 12 button handheld RF transmitter for the receptionist to use from her desk.

We then ran a CAT5 cable and an RQ Bridge to the IT manager’s office and installed ESI GUI PRO software (a free download from ESI) as a standalone program on an existing computer. We thought of adding a notebook computer dedicated to controlling the lobby shades, but there was no additional benefit in introducing another computer.

With the GUI PRO software, we were able to program a virtually unlimited number of operations for controlling the shades. The owners were very specific in what hours to raise and lower each exposure and when the shades would open and close on weekends and holidays. Depending on the exposure, we have the shades coming 25% down in the early morning and 50% in the early afternoon and then 75% down in the middle afternoon and 100% down for only a few hours each day on each exposure.

One window shade protects the guest seating area and is programmed differently than all of the other shades to provide more comfort to the visitors and to provide additional protection for the furniture.

Our installation has been complete for over one year and we have not had a single service call or issue with any aspect of the installation, programming or components.

We can’t wait for the next opportunity to integrate the GUI PRO software with the RQ motor controls.