Wireless Emergency Lighting

Emergency lighting is crucial as a safety critical system and an important part of any built environment infrastructure. Over the years improvements have been made to systems in an effort to make them easier and more effective to manage. 

Why wireless emergency lighting?

• Simple retrofit - wireless fittings are a straight replacement to those in place and require less installation time and much lower costs in new build due to no communication cables needed.
• Less costs - No more manual maintenance or tests as they are all automated and full reports provided and stored in a system and/or pushed to users.
•  Proactive management - Simple dashboards and 24/7 monitoring of your building or estate for testing, luminaire status and battery health. 
• Self healing - Our mesh system works using a clever mesh that heals itself and re-routes back to the controller regardless of failed luminaires within the system. Mesh communication is far superior to point to point methods. 
• Flexibility - For sites where areas are used in changing ways it is infinitely easier to move luminaires and operate again. For 24/7 facilities tests can be manually programmed to undertake rolling luminaire tests (so that areas are always able to be used, even during testing). 
• Zero Confusion - Never wonder again if tests have been undertaken by your staff (or contractors). Always see at a glance the immediate status of your site or full estate using our clever colour-coded menu tree. Stored and time stamped tests are always available to be viewed if needed. Alerts can be set up for early warning of changes in system operation.   

So you can see immediately there are so many benefits to having wireless emergency lighting and the safety and piece of mind it brings. 

Ideal use cases for wireless emergency lighting?

All use cases are ideal for this technology but obviously the wireless and smart nature of it lends itself perfectly to 

• Heritage buildings - wiring challenges or protection of the building fabric is much more easily achieved. 
• Large facilities - when you have large volumes of emergency luminaires the cost and management of them using a smart wireless system is vastly improved.
• Public Spaces - management of museums, transport hubs or similar is so much easier using bespoke or tailored testing regimes that then happen automatically, whilst 24/7 monitoring of luminaire health help to ensure absolute compliance.
• Flexible use spaces - wireless emergency lighting really lends itself to changing spaces and enhances the ability to use these areas whilst still ensuring compliance. 

All built environment spaces are ideal for a smarter, wireless approach and the assurance of compliance. 

What are the costs for wireless emergency lighting?

With the rapid rise of IoT and connected devices it is now very cost effective to move to a smart wireless emergency lighting system. Of course it is a little more expensive than a standard dumb solution as you have added communication and smart functions but you have also removed cost and install time for communication wires or manual test points etc. You also have a system that is faster to fit as a retrofit or as a new build installation. Finally, you have removed all of the time in the future to periodically test and record the system compliance and the risks associated with this. 

What happens if there is a communication issue during service? 

If there is ever a communication issue all or any of the luminaires affected will revert back to a manual test regime in the meanwhile so there is no danger of tests not being undertaken or compliance assured.   

Is there a full range of smart wireless emergency lighting luminaire types to choose from?

There are a full range of luminaires to select from across all types and applications. Also, there are wireless emergency lighting packs that can be used with almost any manufacturer as a retrofit option. This is also perfect for specialist applications such as car parks, clean rooms or wet rooms and vandal resistance etc where specialist luminaire types are needed. 

 Changing to wireless emergency lighting is easy, cost effective and the best way to ensure compliance whilst removing expensive labour time and manual record keeping. 

How does your wireless emergency lighting work?

Using two well known and reliable system structures we have created a best in class solution. We have taken the DALI (Digital Addressable Lighting Interface) which is the industry standard for excellence in lighting and applied the established, effective and robust Zigbee mesh communication. DALI is an open standard protocol used worldwide and it also means we can operate as wireless, wired or even hybrid which is perfect for large estates or legacy buildings.