Smart Emergency Lighting Project (London Site)

We recently carried out work on a London site – utilising Bluetooth technology to communicate with 39 on site fittings for emergency lighting, testing, reporting failures and imminent failures. We reduced the emergency lighting units from 82 to 39 – reducing costs for the future utilising Lens technology and lithium batteries -albeit the important component is the LENS = LIGHT distribution. Not only do we achieve specified emergency light levels across the retail area, we also reduce energy and service costs over time.

The Bluetooth technology does not impact on site activities in any shape or form as it beams the information directly back to Gosport for our evaluation. This activity does not detract from the Customer carrying out your own weekly / monthly on site tests.

We are interested to provide costs and solutions, etc, to pursue this concept which one would suggest would be very much of interest to both parties as it is evident that generally Management and Staff do not understand the emergency lighting testing procedures, or indeed have the ability to identify emergency fittings as normally they refer to the exit signs - not the total content of the site. This removes the burden of responsibility from the Staff and provides concise Management information – available 24/7 at our HO in Gosport.

Revitalisation & Sustainable Lighting

We also have witnessed specifically over the last 24 Month, failures on LED fittings on sites near to / or at the end of their guaranteed life. This initially resulted in new fittings being installed; however, it is clear to us that the number of failures are increasing, primarily with drivers, albeit LED cobs and LED strips have followed closely behind on certain parts of the Estates we have the pleasure of maintaining.

The fittings that we have retained – ie the ones that were removed from sites – are revitalised with drivers and LED strips – at a fraction of the buying costs of new fittings, reflecting an overall saving including installation of some 40%, without jeopordising quality or life expectancy of the new components as the integrity of the heat sink has not been jeopardised and the energy consumed / light output has indeed improved by circa 25% over time as technology has advanced.

Challenger are committed to moving forward with ‘revitalisation’ including investing in a mobile workshop to affect on site repairs, with minimal impact to Customers – our new mobile workshop will facilitate LED units up to 1600mm in length and down to LED track spots, which contributes not only to the circular economy but also for a sustainable future.