Sacramento, Calif. June 25, 2025—mwConnect, a leading innovator in Bluetooth® mesh technology, has received OpenADR 3.0 certification for its multi-platform cloud application, mwLink™.
The mwLink Lighting Control Dashboard is a cloud application that provides facility managers and network administrators with a wealth of operational data from their networked lighting control systems. These include occupancy state and history, energy consumption state and history, fault detection and reporting, predictive maintenance reporting, and automated demand response through an OpenADR 3.0 certified VEN with no additional hardware requirements.
OpenADR 3.0 is the next-generation specification for automated demand response in energy systems. It supports two-way signaling between a VTN (Virtual Top Node, typically utilities/aggregators) and VENs (Virtual End Nodes, like smart devices or building controllers). According to the OpenADR Alliance, “the OpenADR 3.0 communications standard represents a major step forward in energy management technology. It reflects the growing need for interoperability, reduced complexity, and greater flexibility in today’s energy systems. With its focus on standardization, OpenADR 3.0 addresses the challenges faced by utilities, grid operators, and aggregators in managing the growth in distributed energy resources (DER) and automating demand response and grid flexibility initiatives to improve energy management efficiency.”
mwLink supports multiple lighting control network types as well as an API for third party integration, re-affirming the company’s commitment to advancing interoperability in networked lighting controls. The app is subscription based, with optional add-on data features, so users can customize the feature set that works best for them. Multi-level access ensures that users can define appropriate roles for administrators or daily operators. Reports can be customized by area and are downloadable as .csv files with data reporting intervals of 15 minutes. mwLink delivers lighting data for both indoor and outdoor lighting networks, enabling users to manage their indoor and outdoor lighting from a single pane of glass.
“We’re proud to obtain this certification,” said Stephen Zhou, Executive Vice President. “mwLink is the only commercially available OpenADR 3.0 certified VEN capable of performing automated demand response without requiring additional hardware and provides customers with a more streamlined approach to advanced control capabilities.”