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Wireless emergency lighting system from Tridonic – easy testing and maintenance of existing systems

Modern emergency and safety lighting requires central monitoring and automatic testing of individual luminaires. In the case of existing systems with emergency batteries inside the luminaires there are no central monitoring. And to upgrade luminaires with EM PRO emergency LED drivers is often difficult as additional wiring is needed for communication. To simplify this Tridonic combines basicDIM Wireless and the DALI-2 controller sceneCOM evo to a wireless emergency lighting system suitable for both renovations in existing buildings with luminaires containing EM PRO emergency LED drivers and new installations. The system will still comply with all current standards relevant to emergency lighting. This is a very cost-effective solution and enables you to combine wired and wireless devices that are all controlled via DALI.

Safety and emergency lighting systems play an important role in building safety. They must be regularly checked by trained specialists. The condition must also be documented in a test log. To make sure that testing and maintenance work is properly documented, thereby increasing building safety, more and more countries require central monitoring and control for the automated testing of single battery powered systems. This includes central reporting of operational readiness, operating mode, and collective faults of safety lighting systems.

Standard-compliant retrofitting is difficult in existing buildings

For emergency lighting operators, complying with the requirement for a central test facility calls for intensive planning and involves high costs. In the case of existing systems, central monitoring can only be implemented by installing additional wiring. At best, this is a time-consuming and labour-intensive operation, and at worst may not be possible at all.

Tridonic’s new wireless emergency lighting system can be integrated into existing installations without the need for additional wiring. However, the emergency luminaire must be updated with a wireless device that is connected to 230V and connected to the EM PRO DALI input. The wireless system also offers advantages for new buildings. There are overall cost savings as less time and effort is needed for planning and commissioning, and material costs are also reduced.

System structure and function

Tridonic uses the basicDIM Wireless system as the backbone of the new solution, fully Casmabi ecosystem compatible, providing wireless connectivity for the emergency luminaires via a fail-safe mesh network without any additional cabling or structural changes. The luminaires are set up via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). The wireless network is connected to DALI by connecting the basicDIM Wireless G2 passive module which is configured with the DALI gateway software profile. Tridonic’s new DALI-2 controller sceneCOM evo can now communicate with the wireless emergency light fixtures. Up to 192 luminaires can be connected to each sceneCOM evo controller. sceneCOMevo thus becomes the central unit that controls function tests, battery tests and handles test data. Test and system data from sceneCOM evo is accessed via the local network with a browser in a PC or tablet.

Automatic testing and log book at the touch of a button

In conventional installations without central monitoring, appropriately qualified personnel must operate each individual emergency luminaire in the building and check it manually.
With its wireless emergency lighting system, Tridonic provides building operators and electrical engineers with a simple solution that automatically checks the installation at the prescribed intervals and records the condition of each individual luminaire in the wireless network in real time.

Extend the sceneCOM system for large installations

sceneCOM evo can also be used for large installations by using multiple controllers, such as all the buildings on a large campus or retail outlets at different locations.  With the web application em-LINK v2, up to 200 sceneCOM evo controllers can be connected and therefore as many as 38,400 individual luminaires. em-LINK v2 has a simple user interface to check the status of each sceneCOM evo. The building managers are thus spared routine travel to the various buildings or branches; they are only required on site in the event of a malfunction or for replacing individual system components.