Smart Lighting and energy management for a special-steel office building: automatically adjusted by shift pattern and available daylight, reducing the long-term running cost of an industrial building.
Factory lighting cannot follow office logic: maintenance, shift handover and night inspection all need light that stays on.
In offices you can light on presence and off on vacancy. In workshops and plant areas you cannot: equipment maintenance, shift handover and night inspection all need lighting kept on or on by zone. The value of smart lighting in industrial settings is the energy saved while those exceptions are respected.
Constant illuminance control keeps the light level at the standard value rather than as bright as possible — double the brightness means double the energy, and most work surfaces do not need it. Paired with circuit current detection, faults are located to the circuit rather than found by inspection.
Metering at four levels — plant, building, workshop process and key equipment — is the line between being able to manage and being able to save. Only when data can be allocated to a specific workshop and process does the return on an energy retrofit become defensible, and support a green factory claim.
Lighting no longer runs at full load all year.
Light levels held at the standard value rather than brighter.
Lamp faults located precisely to the circuit.
Plant, building, workshop and key equipment measured separately.
