NHS & Healthcare Sector

Every single one of us relies on the NHS and other healthcare providers – at some point in our lives.

CILS have helped clients in this sector by providing reliable and innovative solutions. The main challenges are, usually, to reduce their carbon footprint, cut expenditure on energy and maintenance, prevent the loss of expensive equipment and improve the comfort of both staff and patients.

This sector can be an especially unpredictable working environment. Our delivery teams know that communication with the site staff, expeditiousness and adaptability are key to a project’s success.

Smart NHS and healthcare buildings

CILS has transformed hospital wards, operating theatres and treatment centres. We install and commission Enlighted IoT – a smart building controls system, approved for NHS clients.

We’ve upgraded the lighting to smart LED with advanced lighting controls; we’ve implemented the IoT ‘intelligent ceiling’, (which includes medical equipment tracking), in almost any healthcare environment. All in addition to huge energy savings and moving our clients closer to net zero.

Among the many benefits of having a solid, smart infrastructure is the facility to collate real data to optimise and improve building management in the future.

Lower energy & maintenance costs from lighting

Hospitals and other medical facilities can reap significant energy savings from optimising their lighting.

An upgrade to LED lighting, combined with advanced IoT controls and smart sensors, constantly adjust light levels according to occupancy, task and daylight settings.

Reduce the need to frequently change light bulbs with the installation of new, long life LED lighting.

Know where to find your critical equipment

Expensive medical equipment goes missing every year; for example, a syringe pump required for chemo is around £1000 each.

Hospital staff can spend about 20 min each shift, looking for equipment they need to do their work.

With IoT asset tracking enabled, you can locate tagged equipment precisely, at any time.

Improve the environment for frontline staff & your patients

The LED lighting is flicker free and most fittings have a universal glare rating (UGR) of 19 or less – reducing eye strain, improving concentration levels, and therefore improving the working environment, staff output and patient wellbeing.

Embedded smart sensor technology guarantees that light levels are calibrated to the task at hand. And in more relaxed settings, to levels that feel most natural to the eye.

Space utilisation in real-time

Identify occupied/unoccupied areas for energy savings, safety and use data-driven information to determine the best use of space.

Using smart sensors, plan cleaning schedules to suit the use of space and occupancy. Data can also be used to contact trace occupants or locate missing equipment.

Gather valuable data-driven insight

Smart sensors and IoT systems go way beyond reducing energy consumption. Actual energy use measurement, basic heat-mapping, real-time location services, asset tracking – all can improve security and provide valuable data for building management analysis.

This is a solid basis for data-driven decision making, for future upgrades and building optimisation.

Save on heating and cooling

Integrate decarbonised heating systems such as air source heat pumps to reduce your CO2 emissions. Realise significant savings using smart sensors, to automatically reduce heating or cooling in unoccupied spaces.

These additional benefits can be delivered via software rather than hardware changes. Heating controls, for example, can be accessed via a mix of Enlighted plug load controllers for local electric fan heating and smart TRV controls for radiators.

Decarbonised heating

Integrate decarbonised heating systems such as air source heat pumps, to reduce your CO2 emissions.

Solar PV

Generate your own electricity to lower the cost of energy and demonstrate that your healthcare facility is committed to achieving net zero.

See our NHS & healthcare sector case study

WWL NHS Trust

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust wanted to future-proof its buildings. Since 2021, CILS has…

TESTIMONIALS

We highly appreciated the professional attitude of your team.

The Client [University of Antwerp] is happy, so we all are happy.

BeLux 9

Werner TIPS

Project Manager

Over 4,000 units were installed, energy consumption has been reduced and disruption was minimal.

We have been pleased with the level of customer service provided.

University of Winchester

Matt Jane

Energy Manager

I can only say how happy I am with the system, the team that carried out the changeover from manual to automatic operation, and how a weight has been lifted off my shoulders regarding energy costs.

Wigmore Primary School

Pat Addison

School Business Manager

We were very impressed with your team and have been singing their praises to everyone about the way they have completed this project.

We are delighted with the first set of data reduction figures too, long may it continue!

Putteridge Primary School

Cecilia McCarthy

Business Manager

I have worked with CILS on a number of projects and am always impressed by their ability to produce high quality results on each and every project. The team provides us with innovative solutions and it’s a pleasure to work with a company which is so committed to helping us solve complex problems

Luton Council

Sue Davies

Strategic Energy Manager

CILS refurbished the lights at Peterborough Register Office from the initial discussion and walk-round to removal and installation.

They produced detailed but easily readable plans, communicated excellently, got on with the job and made no mess. The difference it has made to our working environment is much appreciated.

Peterborough City Council

Ruth Hodson

Registration Manager

Inspire Sports Village is a great example of a project where we invested our own money in order to provide a better sustainable position for the organisation, and also to provide the client who owns the building something that was future-proof. Those intelligent sensors could allow us to reduce further our cost base and be more efficient in the longer term.

Our savings are over 80%. It will provide a better lighting platform for the next 10+ years.
We want to save money so that we can reinvest into the organisation and into the community.

Active Luton

Stuart Trower

Director of Operations

So far, the lighting that we now have has saved us 87%. If a colleague headteacher were to come to me and have a discussion about the whole process, I would urge them to plan this into the development of their school.

Icknield Primary School

Joanna Farbon

Headteacher

I would like to thank you all personally for your professional completion of the Honeywell Leicester office transformation. What has been achieved within such a tight budget is outstanding and a credit to your ingenuity and commitment.

The changes have greatly enhanced the productivity of our meetings and it’s a pleasure to be able to see the details on a spreadsheet at the back of a room. Thanks again for all your support.

HONEYWELL

Matthew Eastwood, BEng (Hons), MIEE

UK Managing Director