Smart Controls

Drive down your energy costs, maximise space and comfort.

CILS focus on the energy-efficient running of buildings through the use of smart building technologies.

Advanced smart sensors, deployed throughout a building, detect movement, occupancy, light levels, temperature and power consumption in real-time. These sensors act as controls for lighting and other building systems using this data to maximise energy efficiency, enhance user comfort and drive down space and energy costs.

We embed a smart sensor in each new light fitting. It’s the perfect solution for any larger building – including schools, offices, commercial and industrial buildings – to significantly cut down energy consumption.

What exactly is a smart building?

A smart building is one where energy use, resource and comfort of the environment are controlled and optimised – via the use of technology.

A typical smart building may use a wide range of existing technologies that are designed into the construction or retrofitted in a way that allows for the integration of future technology.

The Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, building management systems (BMS), artificial intelligence (AI), and augmented reality (AR) are some of the mechanisms that may be used in smart buildings to control and optimise its performance via the utilisation of the building services, including lighting, heating, air conditioning, security, etc.

Why choose smart?

Lighting exists in all buildings. It can provide one of the greatest opportunities to create a smart building that is focused on energy efficiency as smart controls save an additional 75% of energy.

A smart building ensures you maximise your operating efficiency whilst improving the experience of people who use the building.

Lower operational costs

A smart building can, for example, leverage data it collects to optimise the lighting. Such lighting management lowers energy usage dramatically which, in turn, extends the lifespan of the light fittings and massively reduces the need for replacements and maintenance. The same can be applied to other building systems, all of which can help buildings become more energy-efficient, to meet or exceed stringent regulations for greenhouse gas emissions.

By integrating your Emergency lighting into the Smart Building infrastructure, you can automate monthly and yearly compliance testing and even automate the reports. No need to bring in expensive electrician teams for manual testing.

Smart building data can also support automated scheduling, from parking-space allocation to workspace assignment and conference room reservations. It can also monitor valuable assets and equipment with real-time location services, or give you the analysis of the building use, so that you can repurpose areas that are routinely under-utilised.

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Lower energy costs

Connecting lighting and HVAC into a smart building system, for instance, enables it to automatically adjust the light levels and room temperature based on the time of day, temperature and light level data, occupancy and task requirements. In most cases, lighting controls reduce LED energy use by a further 70-75%, compared to no controls.

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Greater flexibility

Smart building data can also be used, for example, to detect changes in occupancy density. The building’s HVAC systems then can adjust airflow, humidity and temperature appropriately. Or, based on escalating density thresholds, even lighting colour could change to indicate too many people in a conference room, workspace, or building.

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How do we make your building smart?

CILS use the Enlighted, a Siemens company IoT platform. We embed a smart sensor in each new light fitting.

This enables capturing information from the sensors to monitor occupancy, temperature, and much more. The data gathered can be analysed to create valuable insight into the building’s performance.

The analytics and data are used to explore and create operating efficiencies, improve people’s experiences, enhance productivity and optimise resource and asset use.

Advanced interoperability also allows other devices and systems within a building or room to be connected. This ensures that everything is monitored through one centralised user interface; effectively creating a building management control system.

Smart Sensors
The most sophisticated sensor in the industry, a single sensor is as capable to measure lux levels, room temperature, movement, as well as to measure and report the exact amount of energy consumed by the light fitting it controls.
Gateway
The Gateway relays data captured by the sensors to the Energy Manager for analysis and reporting.
Manage
The Energy Manager provides the analysis for all data harvested by the Enlighted Smart Sensors. The system also allows for logging in remotely, to troubleshoot any issues or adjust lighting levels.

‘Smart sensors’ collect the data and wirelessly relay it via a smart ‘gateway’ to the ‘energy manager’.