Discover the Benefits of Effective Lighting Control Solutions

April 20, 2011 - PRLog -- In both the commercial industry and in private buildings, the regulation for appropriate, energy use and the need for precise power monitoring and controls are steadily increasingly.

In general, the main energy costs that most buildings incur are through its lighting and heating sources.

With energy costs continually rising, many companies have started analysing their overall running and operational costs in order to remain competitive.

Through the implementation of careful planning and correct power monitoring, many companies can effectively reduce their building energy consumption and costs.

Throughout the country, many buildings have been built with now obsolete lighting control systems. As such when these light control systems fail, they can potential plunge the entire building into darkness and create massive amounts of wasted energy.

Overall, the concept of energy efficiency is all about allocating the correct amount of light using the least amount of electricity used. While energy saving could simply be used to switch off all the power, this is hardly an ideal solution for lighting control.

Energy saving as a concept is relatively easy. One simply needs to ensure that the lights are either off when they are not in use, or dimmed to a comfortable level matching the building requirements at the time.

Effective Lighting Control Solutions Offer the Following Benefits:

- Flexibility, allowing change to building use to be accommodated
- Cost savings, from reduced energy, lamp usage and maintenance
- Scene / Mood setting with scheduling
- Power management and monitoring
- Production of real time and historical data for precise energy monitoring
- Light fault diagnosis and fault analysis
- Modifications and additional units added with minimal / no disruption

In order to maximise the benefits of an automated lighting control system, the use of presence or absence detectors and appropriate timers in certain rooms to turn off lights automatically when rooms are no longer in use are very effective.

Another way to arrange and maintain the required lights levels is through the use of a LUX sensor. This sensor can measure the amount of natural light available and dim the lights to make use of this available free source of light.

Making the use of natural light and combining automatic and dimming sensors, ensures a cost effective way of lighting a room at any given moment in time.

Automated lighting control systems allow buildings to effectively manage their resources by correctly allocating power to the appropriate areas, reducing wasteful energy and saving money on building resources.

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