What Can Be Achieved With Smart Emergency Lighting Control?
Emergency lighting is mandatory in many countries and territories. Historically it has been a very manual process that is time-consuming to maintain. However, with the advent of IoT and smart connected buildings, emergency lighting systems can be hugely improved through preventative maintenance and automated testing. Smart components can report on the status of the device, battery and lamp and data can be provided in a user-friendly tool, which allows issues to be flagged and addressed ahead of them occurring. In addition, some tests can be automatically scheduled, saving time, money and improving overall safety. All results are available to view on the tool and via exported reports. This improves the audit process and makes this regulatory requirement much more manageable for facility/building managers.
It saves money, unnecessary manpower and simplifies the process.
Why is Emergency Lighting Important?
Emergency lighting is an essential part of fire safety regulations within buildings. It ensures safe and regulated illumination standards to illuminate escape routes and exits in the event of an emergency where occupants need support to safely exit the building. This is a mandatory requirement in all non-single-user public and private buildings in the UK.
In the UK and most European Countries, industry standards, such as BS EN 50172:2004/BS 5266-1:2016 and IEC 62034, aim to set out clear guidance to maintain and supply the solution. Tests need to be carried out regularly to ensure there are no failures – a full battery discharge test should be carried out once a year, and function tests should be completed at least once a month. However, this manual, timely process often isn't prioritised as highly as it should be.
Recent tragedies such as Grenfell have cast a renewed focus on emergency lighting and shown just how seriously it needs to be taken. It has caused large occupancy buildings to review their disaster prevention strategies and upgrade their approach.
Emergency lighting does not need to be cumbersome, expensive, time-consuming and rely on human intervention. It can be efficient, cost-effective and elements of it can be automated, which dramatically reduces human error and provides qualitative data.
A smart emergency lighting system pays for itself. Money is saved as manual emergency testing carried out by site staff or a third party contractor is no longer required.
How Can SmartCore Emergency Help You?
SmartCore Emergency Lighting Control is a software solution that enables you to offer added benefits to your clients. The non-proprietary and vendor-agnostic solution works with a wide range of emergency lighting hardware. Our flexible, open architecture provides seamless connectivity and data convergence, allowing the user/specifier to remain agnostic when they choose their hardware and allowing for integration with building management systems, allowing the control, monitoring and feedback from both wired and wireless hardware. Data and information are presented in a user-friendly dashboard that can be customised to suit your client's needs.
In addition, SmartCore is dramatically more cost-effective than the leading wired and wireless monitoring and control solutions!
What Is Included In SmartCore Emergency?
SmartCore Emergency Lighting Control improves regulatory emergency lighting compliance. The audit process is simplified, and control is improved. The system allows managers to view faults, untested, overdue, completed and scheduled activities, creating a more efficient method that saves time and costs. The system can automatically schedule tests and flag when there is a fault. Reports can be quickly and easily exported, providing full transparency.
Key benefits of SmartCore Emergency:
Perform the required Duration and Function Tests to check the battery operation and provide quick feedback on the device's status, battery, and lamp, helping to meet regulations and keep building occupants safe
Schedule monthly and annual testing
Automatically produce the required test reporting
Fault reporting and monitoring provide detailed information on the type of lamp or device status displayed either locally or centrally
All luminaires are controlled and managed via one platform, reducing complexity
Easy management from any web device
Complies with all current BS Standards
How Do We Help Our Partners?
We are here to help you deliver an end-to-end emergency lighting solution, upsell to your current customers and overcome integration and data visualisation issues.
We work with a range of emergency lighting hardware partners, lighting OEMs and lighting control companies, providing them with additional functionality through our unique software and user interface.