Emergency lighting is a legal requirement to ensure a high enough level of lighting so that all residents can safely evacuate the house in an emergency.
Whether it is a new building or a renovation project, it is important to have an expandable product set to meet the different requirements of a potential installation. If these requirements change, whether it is driven by the application or the technology using different test protocols, it must be flexible.
At present, smart lighting solutions are widely used in the UK market, and network-based connections bring enhanced functions beyond basic lighting. As Russell Parr, Prime Light's sales and marketing director, said, intelligent lighting products and solutions are also entering the emergency lighting system.
The development of intelligent emergency lighting may be far from being fully documented as traditional lighting technology, but this is not to say that its development is not fast. In fact, the latest generation of intelligent hardware lighting solutions now support an extended range of functions while still meeting the user's general expectations of advanced performance, optimal efficiency, reliability and full compliance.
In the event of a fire or similar crisis, the main function of emergency lights has not changed, that is, to quickly guide people out of the building. Therefore, given its potential life-saving role, such evacuation systems have always been the primary concern of the building maintenance and facility management teams.
In fact, the programmable intelligent function with DALI protocol and the now continuously expanding wireless connection platform for emergency lighting equipment have the ability to provide remote test systems from any location, anytime, anywhere, to real-time remote monitoring and maintenance, and alarms. At the same time, it can also be fully integrated with other major lighting, emergency and BMS (building management systems) to provide more intelligent building management functions.
Moreover, the flexibility of today's emergency lighting solutions is arguably the most logical and technically logical solution to create a connected ecosystem of lighting systems and building automation in an intelligent building infrastructure.