Health

Overview
Fieldhead Hospital: Wakefield
General Hospital: Derby

Overview

Hospitals need to stay at the cutting edge of medicine. For hospital managers, topics such as cost and energy efficiency are becoming increasingly important as well. No matter if the problems diagnosed are to do with lighting, blinds, heating and air conditioning or building management, or if the building in question is being newly built or just modernised – in future, many things can be regulated automatically. Which leaves you with more time to concentrate on what is really important – your patients.

Some examples:

Check the occupancy of conference rooms from reception ,o r control lighting and blinds from the same place. Perhaps view statuses and readings? Change set values? Or receive a warning signal automatically if the heating breaks down, so that you can react quickly enough to prevent worse damage occurring? All just a straightforward procedure.

Integrated controls connect the utilities of your hospital to one another using an intelligent bus line. In this way, information can be exchanged for all building functions.

An example of energy management in the corridor: switch and dim groups of luminaires and regulate the air conditioning/ ventilation as required. In connection with presence detectors, the lighting can be switched dependent on movement and brightness. Energy costs can thus be conveniently saved.

In a hospital, easy orientation is particularly important in the evening and at night. And even more particularly in side rooms which are rarely used. So that no-one is left fumbling about for the light switch in the dark, indoor movement detectors switch the lighting on automatically. Convenient, and energy-efficient.

With presence detectors to control your lighting based on movement and levels of daylight, you can save up to 30%on your electricity costs. The light is dimmed up only when the presence detectors installed in the corridors detect that someone is there, and, if desired, the light can be dimmed back down again when they leave again. In this way, even long corridors in wards can be completely monitored and their lighting intelligently controlled.

Detectors are particularly practical and convenient when care staff has their hands full with trolleys or wheelchairs.


The Fieldhead Hospital: Wakefield
Lighting control and energy management

The system provides lighting control with added power saving efficiencies by the use of a distributed control system being networked to intelligent relay modules throughout the building. The system has been set-up to be fully automatic, although the user can control various functions of the lighting from the touch screen controller, which has been provided in the ground floor security room. The system has also been designed to carry out a central emergency lighting test facility which can be activated from the touch screen.



The General Hospital: Derby
Lighting control and energy management

Utilising dimming via manual local controls and light level sensors, this teaching facility began the energy review of future systems within the Hospital.