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HOW LIGHTING CONTR OLS CAN SAVE YOUM RE THAN J ST ENERGY


Bastiaan de Groot, Director Smart Lighting and Controls at Feilo Sylvania anager can take advantage of smar


stia t, Drecto spend on l ghting and dramati al y i crease energy savings elsew ere


managers can take advantage of smart lighting controls, to reduce the amount of money they spend on lighting and dramatically increase energy savings elsew


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art Lighting and Control at Feilo Sylvania, looks at how energywenergy ght ng cont ol


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Smart lighting systems can also help reduce building operating costs.With property prices so high it is essential that building owners utilise every squaremetre of space as efficiently as possible, reducing their costs at the same time. If the smart sensor that is integrated within a luminaire in ameeting roomdetects very little usage of that room, then it could be converted to other uses – perhaps to providemore desk space, and enablemore employees per squaremetre.


Having a network of smart sensors ca n also help facilitiesmanagers to co- ordinate cleaningmore effectively. By analysing the heatmap generated by these sensors they can find out which areas of the building have not been used, and instruct cleaners to avoid those areas, significantly lowering cleaning costs. This can also cut energy consumption, because the time that serv


rvices such as lighting and L


ighting controls have long been an effective way of cutting your energy


bills. For years now we’ve been able to dim lights with presence detecto daylight sensors to account


for natural rs, and use


light levels, to avoid wasting light and energy. However, these control systems are often difficult to install, need expensive commissioning and recommissioning when they go wrong, and have complex, clunk y user interfaces.


BU BUT TIMES ARE CHANGING IMES ARE CHANGING


With the rapid development of LED lighting and sensor technology, smart lighting controls can offer advanced lighting control with individual dimming and light levels, and also gather data on the environment in which they are installed, to achieve energy savingsmuch greater than achievable by just dimming lighting. This added


functionality, going well beyond traditional energy savings, to gathering data and providing analysis on how to savemore energy is what transforms l ighting contro l to truly smart systems.


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Lighting is everywhere. Luminaires with integrated smart sensors can create a network tomonitor, control and analyse an entire building – and the way it is used by its occupants. A smart lighting control systemcan provide the platformthat


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energymanagers can then use tomake energy savings fromother services such as heating – and even cut other expenses such as cleaning for unused spaces or even adj


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djusting canteen operating costs. The key to this is utilising the data gathered by the lighting control systemandmaking it available to the building occupants .


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ATING VALUE FROM HE IGH ING Dimming lights can save a significant


ALUE FROM THE LIGHTING TA


amount of energy. But with the


deployment of truly smart lighting controls, the energy savings that can be generated far outstrip those of simply dimming lights. For example, “Hot desking” is increasingly popular inmany office environments.With access to real-time data on the occupancy of the office gathered by a network of smart sensors embedded in luminaires, buildingmanagers could start the day with just the first floor open and, as it fills up with staff, open additional floors if necessary On the closed floors buildin g services such as heating and air


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conditioning could be completely turned off, generating significant energy savings. ures that energy is only t is needed, and not


being used where i This strategy ens


wasted heating or lighting half empty office space.


Figure 1: Figure 1: Organic Response PrO ganic Response Por al ortal KEEP KEEP IT S MPLE SIMPLI


One of the barriers to entry of control systems is that they can be very difficult to install and commission. They can require huge amounts of extra wiring and if something goes wrong, you need to hire an engineer to fix the problem.With the introduction of truly intelligent lighting controls systems, these days are gone. Feilo Sylvania’s Organic Response- enabled luminaires require no additiona l wiring because the technology is integrated with the luminaire, it truly is a ‘plug and play’ solution. The luminaires automatically detect which luminaires are next to each other and commission themselves


automatically, communicating with each other so that if a person ismoving through a space the lighting levels seamlessly rise in front of themand fall behind them. Smart lighting systems present a huge number of opportunities for energy management professionals looking t o dramatically increase their energy savings, and are now easier to install and use than ever before.


Feilo Sylvania www.feilosylvania.com


www.feilosylvania.com T: 0800 440 2478


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heating are operating is reduced if cleaners spend less time in the building after hours .


HOWL GHTING CONTROL CA N S V E YOU MORE THAN JUST ENERGY


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