Background

Extending its journey in becoming the smartest and most energy efficient shopping centre in the world, Bluewater Shopping Centre has upgraded their Back of house and Service yards to an intelligent solution.

With miles of back of house corridors, their smart journey has become literal.

Challenge

With energy inefficient luminaires, scattering the corridors with fluorescent T8 lighting, and emergency lighting due an upgrade; a retrofit LED solution was an ideal solution to be implemented to swap like-for-like over the site. Due to the high foot traffic of store clerks and employees throughout the corridors, sufficient light levels would be needed when an individual was there, but a reduced level when there is no-one to reach higher energy saving levels.

Solution

With our trusted partner, Harpers, almost 1500 Mymesh devices have been rolled out throughout the site in Bulkheads, running men, standard industrial luminaires and integrated emergency version. All with Dali drivers, allowing Mymesh to control every fitting, and monitor all emergencies.

With Multi Sensors dotted around at entrances to back of house, outside shops, on staircases and doorways- full dimming could be implemented allowing maximum energy saving throughout the day; ensuring safe levels of light when in use, and lowered levels when not.

Furthermore, with Lumitel control circadian cycles have been implemented. Nighttime levels are treated separately to save even more energy.

Benefits

With high footfall, and integrated emergency fittings- Bluewater can now review usage with the Lumitel platform, as well as monitor emergency luminaires ensuring compliance. The integration with Mymesh and Lumitel allows high flexibility in usage and dramatic energy saving. Monitoring of standard and emergency luminaires, as well as control devices can be linked creating work tickets when exceptions occur; making fix first time engineering to occur.