Lighting in Design May/June 2017

Lighting control system at Torbay Hospital Open Technology’s intelligent lighting control sys- tem, LiGO, is fully operational at Torbay hospital’s new 14-bed intensive care unit, which opened earlier this year.

LiGO’s features include circadian balancing, which ensures that the colour temperature of the lighting matches the times of day and night. This function is helpful in ensuring that intensive care patients have better sleep patterns to aid their recovery. The lighting control system also makes the work of hospital staff easier. Lighting in all areas of the ward, including bed bays, offices and cor- ridors, can be controlled locally and configured to the clinicians’ needs. The system is controlled by easy-to-use touchscreen interfaces located in each of the two nurses’ stations in the unit. The LiGO lighting control system was easily integrated with the hospital’s Trend Building Man- agement System (BMS), which was installed by Trend’s approved partner Colton Controls. Overall system design was carried out by Hoare Lee in Plymouth and installation was completed byTotus Engineering. According to Open Technology’s managing di- rector Chris Bedford, the system was integrated within a day, before the unit was completed, and after the staff had an all-important opportunity to see how the specified operations worked for them. Minor but important changes were required and LiGO was able to achieve these in real-time. “In fact,” said Bedford, “in the time it took the commissioning team to have a coffee break, the changes were implemented and demonstrated to the team’s satisfaction.” The installation of the DALI System by Totus Engineering was fault free, ensuring commission- ing was straight forward.

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