Lighting control that runs on your terms

Extend is an on-premise platform to control, automate and monitor your lighting - on the Helvar hardware you already have, online or completely offline.

See what it does

One place to run every light

Run every site, floor, group and fitting from a single view: switch scenes, tune colour and brightness, and see live what's on right now. Extend installs on your own server, so your data and your control stay in the building.

How it fits

Extend sits between your Helvar hardware and the people who manage it. There is no cloud in the loop unless you choose it.

See your whole floor, live

A colour-coded floor map shows which lights are on, how bright, and where people are moving. Select any light or zone and control it straight from the map - no hunting through lists.

Cut energy, not comfort

Energy dashboards chart your lighting's estimated power use over time, with export to Excel. Auto Sensor Tuning learns each space and trims how long lights stay on - never longer than needed, never while people are still there.

Emergency compliance, hands-free

Extend runs the mandated function and duration tests on your emergency lighting automatically, on schedule, and keeps a complete, reportable record of every result - so evidence is always ready and failing fittings are easy to find.

Part of your building, not an island

Extend is an integration platform as much as a lighting interface. Bring lighting together with your building management, access control, AV and security systems.

High-speed BACnet

Bridge lighting state to and from your building management system over BACnet, with zero configuration.

ASCII over TCP/IP

Simple, permissioned control and status for third-party systems on the network.

RESTful API

Permissioned programmatic access for your own integrations and dashboards.

Everything else it does

Live control

Recall scenes per area and set per-device colour and brightness, with the current scene always shown.

Automation

Schedules by clock or sunrise and sunset, one-touch macros across the whole building, and holiday-aware date groups.

Scheduled reports

Key reports are generated and emailed to the right people automatically, on a repeating schedule.

Monitoring and alerts

The system watches itself, flags faults, and escalates by email when issues go unresolved.

Audit trail

A searchable record of who changed what and when, so every action is accountable.

Multi-workgroup

One head-end for sites large and small, running several Helvar workgroups side by side.

Asset management

Keep a catalogue of the products installed, with datasheets attached for maintenance.

Works with your hardware

Discovers the Helvar routers and devices already on your network and keeps them in sync.

Access and recovery

Role-based access down to individual areas, plus one-click backup and restore of the whole system.

Runs anywhere, even offline

No cloud dependency. Extend does its job whether or not the building has an internet connection.

Installed on-premiseRuns on your own server
Works air-gappedNo internet required
Offline licensingActivate without a connection
Automation keeps runningEven with no one logged in