Smart lighting systems to maintain safety in large buildings

Emergency lighting evolves to adapt to different hazardous situations in large facilities, while new technologies allow several roads to be shown with the same luminaire.

With the urban development of the last decades, the environment becomes congested. This fact, added to the amount of risks that can occur in cities, it entails a need to assess the way in which spaces and buildings are safe for the people who pass through them..

Concern for safety means keeping in mind that risk is not a controllable factor and that many people's lives can depend on it..

Today, the owners find themselves with the need to adapt the way in which the evacuation of the building is managed. This requires a flexible and efficient system, that facilitates control by professionals at all times in situations of risk and panic.

Innovation in the field of building safety must be a constant for those companies or owners of places of public concurrence.Evacuating a building in the event of an incident can be complex, especially in large areas where occupants are not familiar with the location of exits or evacuation procedures.

In crowded places, not having a sufficiently intuitive evacuation plan can lead to crushing or crowding, multiplying the consequences of the initial danger. Some high-risk buildings are train stations, Airports, Hospitals, shopping malls, Stadiums, large concert halls and leisure spaces such as nightclubs.

The adaptive evacuation system developed by the specialist Eaton, brand of which Stonex is a technology partner, allows to direct the occupants of a building to different places, according to the location of the hazard and the different possible evacuation routes of the installation. In this way, the same luminaire can indicate two different directions or even block a path, adapting to the available routes.

In these spaces, the existence of numerous distractions, as in the case of shopping centers, or the type of lighting, in discotheques, may cause signage indicating the evacuation route not to be clearly perceived or not to attract the attention of users. The risks are a slow or misdirected evacuation to unsafe places.

With CGLine+ software you can program different scenarios, so that when an emergency occurs, it is necessary to identify where the risk is and activate the optimal scenario for that situation.. Stonex is a company specialized in integrating different professional lighting systems, from the control to the lighting of the spaces to the emergency.

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