Intelligent LEDs Make Controlling Lighting Simple

The responsibility of lighting a large office or warehouse space is something that many people have to deal with.  One thing that annoys both business owners and indeed the public is seeing buildings all lit up with no-one in them.  Whilst a small degree of lighting might be useful for security purposes how can you lower your running costs and not have to take on extra staff to be responsible for ensuring building lights are only on when really needed?

LED Lighting Brings Extra Control

Not only is LED lighting already cheaper to run than traditional old style lighting solutions, they are even more customisable and controllable bringing more saving opportunities and greater operator flexibility.  There are two key features of LED lighting that will make life simpler and require less user input, and there are massively exciting developments in the pipeline.  You may already be aware that as private individuals it is possible to control lighting and heating from your smart devices - things like tablets and mobile phones, so it won’t be much longer before these become available to the commercial and industrial sectors.  So, if anything changes with the planned business schedule you will simply be able to remote control the building LED lighting from nominated user handsets. So what clever features already exist?

Timers Already Offer Extra Savings

Often businesses that operate 24/7 have a lower staffing ratio at night, so why light the whole building? What if you all go home at 5pm and no one comes back until 9am the next morning? Relying on staff to remember to turn off unused lights is perhaps not the most cost effective solution.  If you have a building that will be unoccupied for a certain period then you can simply set up the timers to turn on the lights 5 minutes before staff arrive, or turn them off 10 minutes after shifts end, giving staff time to vacate in the light, but not requiring someone to be responsible for ensuring all lights are turned off.  You can have them on at any times, so if you wanted to light the building occasionally at random hours you would simple update the timers

Motion Sensors Are an Extra Step

Setting lights on a timer might be a step too far if your staff might have flexible and unstable working patterns, perhaps staff that are on call for example.  Overriding a timer setup can be harder than just flipping a switch.  However, installing motion sensors on your LED lighting systems could well be the way forward.  These intelligent sensors are able to determine when people are in an area working, and when they have moved away.  This means lights will come on and turn off automatically without the staff needing to be involved.  Motion sensor LED’s are perfect for toilets for example.  In periods of low usage the lights will go off, which saves energy, but as soon as someone walks in and triggers a sensor, they will immediately come on.

With the energy saving and cost savings of LED lights, these additions are just going to make them an increasingly attractive proposition.  If commercial smart features also come online it won’t be long before everyone realises that LED lighting is the best way to go, so why wait?  Change now and get ahead of the game - and save loads of money!