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A collaboration between P4, a self-testing emergency lighting company, Kablefree Systems, a radio alarm manufacturer, and a team of microelectronics experts from Northumbria University has won a national award for a new development in emergency lighting systems.
The group won first place at the Technology and Innovation Awards 2007 in the SME and university collaboration category for a radio-based computer-addressable emergency lighting system. Powered by batteries, it requires no data cabling and is efficient and clean to install anywhere.
“Normally, emergency lighting requires an extra set of cables for control and information transfer,” explained P4’s business development manager, Alan Daniels.
“By producing a radio-based, computer addressable system it can be installed at great speed, without the cost of additional data cabling, without affecting the building’s users, and without causing damage to the structure. The system offers major advantages in buildings already occupied.”
The new emergency lighting system has already been installed in a London hospital.