Ronald Moeskops, Trade Marketing Western Europe at LEDVANCE, discusses emergency lighting built for installation readiness.

Emergency lighting is a fundamental component of building safety, helping to ensure that occupants can safely exit a space in the event of a power failure or emergency. In commercial, industrial and public environments, the correct specification and installation of emergency luminaires is essential not only for safety but also for compliance with current regulations and standards.

When planning an emergency lighting system, specifiers and installers must consider a range of practical factors. Light output and coverage, emergency duration, environmental protection and long-term reliability all influence the effectiveness of the system. Installation efficiency is also a key consideration, particularly on projects with tight deadlines, complex access or high-traffic areas. Increasingly, flexibility and futureproofing are also valued, allowing systems to adapt as building use or requirements evolve. Modern emergency luminaires are therefore expected to combine robust performance with practical, user-friendly installation features.

Streamline installation

LEDVANCE has expanded its emergency lighting portfolio to address these needs, introducing solutions designed to deliver both dependable performance and installation readiness. The Emergency Twin Spot luminaire is tailored for applications where high-visibility, directional lighting is essential. Suitable for indoor and outdoor environments, its IP65-rated housing provides protection against dust and moisture, making it ideal for warehouses, car parks, plant rooms and external escape routes. The two adjustable spotlights enable installers to direct light precisely along defined escape paths, optimising coverage while minimising unnecessary illumination. Equipped with a LiFePO4 battery, the luminaire ensures a minimum of three hours of emergency operation and is supplied with mounting accessories to streamline on-site installation.

Complementing the Twin Spot is the Wallpack Combo IP65 luminaire, which introduces LEDVANCE’s Plug & Upgrade concept to outdoor emergency lighting. This modular approach allows the Wallpack to be installed initially as a standard luminaire, with emergency functionality added later via an emergency kit if required. Such flexibility is particularly valuable for projects where emergency lighting requirements may change during the course of construction, or where budgets and programmes call for a phased installation. Options are also available with or without an integrated photocell, providing additional adaptability for exterior applications.

Smoother delivery

Both solutions highlight the growing importance of installation readiness in emergency lighting design. By combining robust construction, compliance with current standards and flexible installation options, these luminaires allow contractors to deliver reliable, safe and future-ready solutions without unnecessary complexity. They also reduce the potential for errors or delays on site, supporting smoother project delivery and long-term system performance.

In addition to safety and compliance, durability and low-maintenance operation are increasingly important considerations. The IP65-rated housings, high-quality materials and extended battery life of these luminaires help ensure reliable performance in demanding environments, whether exposed to moisture, dust or occasional impact. By addressing both operational and practical requirements, LEDVANCE’s new emergency lighting solutions demonstrate that safety, efficiency and flexibility can be successfully combined in modern external and internal applications.

For electrical wholesalers, this represents an opportunity to offer products that meet the evolving expectations of specifiers and installers. Modern emergency luminaires are no longer simply safety items; they are practical, adaptable solutions that help projects meet regulatory, operational, and on-site challenges while supporting long-term performance and reliability. By combining reliability, flexibility and ease of installation, modern emergency lighting can truly support both compliance and long-term operational efficiency.

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Nelo Neves, Managing Director at LEDVANCE UK, explains how the company is supporting better lighting through simple wireless control.

Lighting is increasingly expected to do more than provide basic illumination. It must support visual comfort, adapt to different activities and respond to changing conditions, while also helping to reduce energy use. As a result, lighting control is becoming a standard part of modern installations rather than a specialist addition.

LEDVANCE Direct Easy has been developed as a straightforward wireless control system that enables lighting to respond to how spaces are actually used, without adding complexity to installation or commissioning.

Direct Easy operates using Zigbee 3.0 wireless communication and is set up via Bluetooth using a smartphone app. This approach allows luminaires to be grouped and adjusted quickly, making it suitable for both new installations and refurbishment projects where layouts or occupancy patterns may change over time. Because no control wiring, gateways or cloud connections are required, lighting can be configured locally and adapted later without disruption, which is particularly useful in occupied buildings such as offices, schools and retail environments.

A broader range of customers

As wireless control becomes more common on everyday projects, having accessible systems that do not require specialist configuration helps wholesalers support a broader range of customers, from maintenance contractors to small commercial installers.

Once installed, up to 40 luminaires can be grouped within a zone, allowing lighting to be tailored to specific areas rather than treating entire spaces as a single lighting environment. This supports more even light distribution across working areas, while allowing circulation routes or peripheral zones to operate at lower levels. From a lighting quality perspective, this helps avoid over-lighting and improves visual comfort by reducing unnecessary brightness contrasts within a space.

The system also supports daylight harvesting and presence detection, enabling lighting to respond automatically to available natural light and occupancy. When daylight levels are sufficient, luminaires dim to maintain consistent illumination, while unoccupied areas can be reduced or switched off entirely. This not only lowers energy consumption but also helps maintain stable visual conditions throughout the day, reducing the risk of glare or excessive brightness when daylight levels fluctuate. When combined, these features can deliver energy savings of up to 50% compared to LED installations without lighting control.

Direct Easy supports dimming, Tunable White and dynamic RGB control where compatible luminaires are used, allowing light levels and colour temperatures to be adapted to different tasks or times of day. In practical terms, this means cooler light can be used in task-focused environments to support concentration, while warmer tones may be more appropriate in social, hospitality or customer-facing spaces. This flexibility allows lighting to contribute to the overall function and atmosphere of a space, rather than remaining fixed at a single setting.

Visual comfort

The system is designed to work with Zigbee 3.0 compatible LEDVANCE luminaires, which offer high luminous efficacy and low flicker performance. High efficacy ensures required light levels are achieved with lower power consumption, while low flicker supports visual comfort, particularly in environments where people spend long periods under artificial lighting. Combining efficient luminaires with responsive control enables both lighting quality and operational efficiency to be addressed together as part of a single system.

Adaptability over the life of a building is also an important consideration. Direct Easy installations can remain as simple, locally controlled wireless systems, or they can be expanded and integrated into more comprehensive lighting management platforms if future requirements change. Because the system is based on open Zigbee 3.0 standards, upgrades can be achieved without replacing luminaires or control devices, supporting longer system lifecycles and more sustainable refurbishment strategies.

For wholesalers, installers and end-users, the move towards wireless control reflects a broader shift in the market towards lighting that is efficient, adaptable and responsive. Having accessible control solutions available alongside luminaires supports installers who are increasingly asked to deliver lighting that balances performance, comfort and energy efficiency across a wide range of everyday projects.

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LEDVANCE has announced the opening of a new warehouse and distribution centre just outside of Birmingham, UK.

The centrally located warehouse will provide customers across the UK with swift access to LEDVANCE’s extensive line of intelligent and efficient lighting solutions for commercial, industrial and residential applications. The vast range of lighting products being stocked at the new warehouse includes LED lamps and luminaires, LED strip lighting, smart lighting, and light management systems.

Jean-Marc Vogel, CEO Europe West at LEDVANCE, commented: “With the UK being the second largest market in Europe, our ambitions are to develop LEDVANCE lighting and renewable business in the UK. A new warehouse will support our portfolio extension and establish LEDVANCE as a lighting market leader, and at the same time increase our market presences and be closer to our customers in the UK.”

LEDVANCE UK Managing Director, Nelo Neves, said: “Until now, our stock was housed and distributed solely from our central warehouse and distribution facility in Molsheim, France, with a lighting portfolio that caters to the whole of Europe. However, the increasing awareness of sustainability and energy-saving technologies has driven the decision for us to establish a local warehouse to help meet customer demand more efficiently and cost-effectively by importing our UK-specific lighting solutions directly to the UK.”

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LEDVANCE has launched a new product series, EVERLOOP, featuring luminaires with conveniently replaceable LED light sources and drivers.

Using replaceable parts, EVERLOOP products maximise a luminaire’s lifespan, avoiding the need to dispose of complete luminaires and reducing the number of electrical products going into the waste stream.

EVERLOOP products are not only a sustainable choice but also a convenient one for installers and facility managers. The first model of the series to be available is the LEDVANCE Linear IndiviLED Gen 2 in December 2023, offering both direct and indirect versions with on/off or DALI options respectively. The range offers CRI90 and UGR<19 which makes it perfect for office applications.

With a greater lifespan these luminaires are a sustainable and convenient choice for installers, planners, and facility managers, ensuring sustainable efficiency of industrial and office applications as well as public buildings. In addition to an extended lifetime and reduced waste, benefits include cost savings, as well as allowing buildings to maintain the same looks.

The IndiviLED range will be expanded in spring 2024 with further types in the colour black and accessories to create a complete lighting system.

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LEDVANCE is to offer its professional range of LED lamps under its own name, making it easier for wholesalers, installers, electrical planners and professional users to make the transition to future-proof LED technology.

The new branding will see the company offer a complete range of lighting solutions under the name LEDVANCE.

The LEDVANCE brand will offer lighting products in the Superior, Performance and Value classes, which are familiar from LEDVANCE luminaires. Clear naming makes it easy to find all the important product information, including the segmentation, at a glance. Although the names and EANs of the lamps are new, they are clearly linked to the previous products, making them easy to find in the online product catalogue.

The new clearly laid out packaging shows that many of the professional LED lamps have become even more powerful to coincide with the change of brand. However, lamps from the residential sector such as the VINTAGE EDITION 1906 or the LEDinestra range, that will be further offered under the OSRAM brand, will continue to provide the same quality, performance and efficiency.

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LEDVANCE looks at different types of intelligent lighting systems and controls and how they can help to achieve a reduction in energy consumption.

Businesses looking to invest in an intelligent lighting system for their work facilities will find a wealth of products at their fingertips. Climate change has accelerated the speed at which lighting management is innovating, as has the recent RoHS ban on T5 and T8 fluorescent tubes. The results are not only exciting, but game-changing from an energy-saving perspective. A comprehensive, networked amalgamation of all the lighting controls within a building leads to an impressive reduction in energy consumption that cannot be replicated by alternative methods, such as switching to LEDs alone.

In July 2022, LEDVANCE conducted its own research into lighting and the impact it has on the environment, and subsequently global warming. The results showed that while energy-efficient luminaires certainly help reduce lighting’s impact, there reaches a point where the energy savings plateau and increasing lumens per watt is simply not enough. An intelligent sensor-assisted light management system which can switch on and off or dim the light increases efficiency past this point by saving consumption. It is therefore not just useful, but essential, for businesses to reap the benefits of energy saving from intelligent light systems.

Facilities managers will be reassured to know that within the wide selection of systems available is an exceptional choice of customisation options that tailors the lighting to what a facility and the workers within it need.

Sensors

The scope of sensor programming on offer in the lighting management sphere means that there’s settings to fully customise a building’s lighting according to how the facility is used and its hours of operation. Presence detection avoids unnecessary illumination in empty corridors or meeting rooms, and daylight sensing reduces the lighting from luminaires during the brightest parts of the day.

Human-centric lighting

When considering the benefits of automated lighting systems to their spaces, facilities managers will generally note convenience and cost benefits. However, these systems can have an additional positive impact on wellbeing and productivity, as automated systems provide the valuable opportunity to adapt lighting to the circadian rhythms of staff.

The circadian rhythm is our 24-hour body clock that governs natural cycles of activity and rest by managing hormone levels. Humans are known to be heavily influenced by variations in natural light throughout the course of the day. A human oriented lighting concept uses smart controllable LED lighting systems to simulate the characteristics of natural daylight, combining the visual and non-visual biological effects of light through changing colour temperatures and illuminance levels.

Artificial light that synchronises with our circadian rhythms is proven to make us happier, healthier and more productive. It has been scientifically proven that spaces which use human centric lighting systems increase staff wellbeing, concentration and performance during the day, improve the quality of sleep at night, and helps reduce sickness. Therefore, an automated lighting system with HCL programming will not only illuminate an office facility but support the wellbeing of everyone within it.

Adapting to a building

Intelligent lighting systems can be adapted not only for building usage, but for the building itself. Whether the system is being applied to an existing facility as a retro fit installation, or to a new build, management systems provide options. For example, Vivares, the IoT light management system from LEDVANCE, works either with DALI or Zigbee technology for maximum compatibility with any intelligent installation.

LEDVANCE Vivares Zigbee works with a controller that communicates with up to 200 compatible devices using the highly reliable Zigbee 3.0 wireless standard. This makes the system a first choice when no additional control lines should or can be laid, such as when modernising existing buildings or refurbishing listed buildings. Vivares Zigbee is also ideal for changing room situations because the system is flexible and easy to adapt.

Vivares DALI is suitable whenever additional control lines can be laid without any problems, such as in suspended ceilings, when retrofitting existing DALI installations or when equipping new buildings. The Vivares DALI system can also be integrated into a higher-ranking KNX system for building control using a KNX interface. This means that automated tests, including reporting, can be carried out on any emergency lighting system.

Conclusion

The above offers just a glimpse into what light management systems have to offer for businesses assessing their energy saving opportunities in this field. There’s even more choice out there on the market and, given the rapid developments within this product sector, there’s bound to be even more innovation on the way. Watch this space.

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LEDVANCE is showcasing a range of lighting solutions to satisfy the unique requirements of production and storage facilities.

The requirements for a lighting system in a storage environment are diverse and a flexible system that can be easily adapted to changes in working processes is essential. The TruSys FLEX DALI system is an ideal lighting control for an entire building that can manage over 1,000 individually addressed luminaires across rooms and floors, operated by simply using a pushbutton or app for smartphones/tablets.

A typical high-bay warehouse is characterised by high ceilings, narrow aisles and hardly any natural daylight. In addition, the large difference in brightness between indoor and outdoor areas produces a high risk of accidents in entrances and exits. Even from an exceptional ceiling height of nine metres, the LEDVANCE High Bay DALI LED luminaires provide uniformly good illumination, and the daylight control of the DALI-2 drivers enables additional potential for energy savings.

In a production environment, the demands for a lighting system are varied: from rough manual work to fine assembly activities and visual inspections. The LEDVANCE DAMP PROOF Gen 2 DALI meets all these requirements with its high protection against shock, dust and water.

Loading areas are often particularly busy at night. With large trucks manoeuvring and goods being loaded and unloaded, the area quickly becomes crowded and difficult to keep track of. This makes lighting that provides orientation and safety all the more important. The LEDVANCE FLOODLIGHT performance is ideal for loading zones, as well as for facade illumination and lighting close to buildings.

For facilities looking to retrofit LED lamps into an existing lighting solution, the LEDVANCE LED Tube range is an ideal first step. A stand-out product for production and storage environments is the LED Tube T8EM PRO, which has a full-glass portfolio to protect against bending and a shatterproof protection sheet.

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