Lighting controls specialist B.E.G. has implemented its DALI-SYS daylightdependent lighting control into a new 10,000 sq m production facility in Portugal.
The manufacturer completed the project for Simplastic – a thermoplastic component supplier whose products are used in such companies as French cookware brand Tefal. The Portuguese firm built a new production facility with large production halls and needed an automatic lighting control that would help them save on energy costs.
Simplastic required a lighting control solution that would enable them to have different brightness values depending on the area. In the injection moulding and inspection area, for example, higher brightness values were needed than in the assembly section. In the storage area, however, a lower brightness value could be used. Therefore, it was clear to Simplastic that a control system with DALI occupancy detectors would be the best option.
Simplastic has four large zones in the production hall, which are divided into further areas. Each sub-area and the associated groups can be controlled manually by staff and also centrally (via PC and push-button). In addition, a night mode is required in which some luminaires are switched on at 20 per cent. In order to be able to centrally override devices, several devices have to be networked which was made possible thanks to the corresponding lighting control system. The B.E.G. DALI-SYS solution is a modular, networkable system that can be scaled as required. The components are addressable and operate according to the principle of distributed intelligence where DALI wiring is independent of group formation. This meant that changes could be made quickly and easily without rewiring. With B.E.G. DALISYS, rooms, areas or even the entire building could be controlled with standard push-buttons or via PC/ smartphone.
Paul Jones, sales director of UK & Ireland at B.E.G said: “B.E.G. has decades of experience in daylight-dependent lighting control. With daylight dependent control or constant lighting control, the benefit of natural daylight is maximised. For optimum lighting conditions, only as much artificial light is switched on as is needed to achieve the desired brightness level. If the proportion of natural daylight changes, the proportion of artificial light also changes automatically. This saves energy in addition to the presence-dependent control and was the ideal system for Simplastic.”
