The typical modern 5000 to 10,000 m2 warehouse has well over 50% of its floor area, visited for less than 10% of the day. Turret trucks and folks deliver and retrieve pallets generally in less than 3 minutes and return within 30 minutes; that’s activity for 10% of the functional day. That’s 2 visits per hour and 6 minutes of every hour
.If we turn the lamps off during the 54 minutes of no activity, we will save 90% of the power consumed in that space.
If we average that across the total space we are saving 45% of the total energy used.
And if we replace the old 400w mercury vapour lamps with 200w energy savers, we reduce power consumption by 50%.
So turn off lamps when there is no one around and that pushes total consumption reduction to about 90%.
All of the above benefits are able to be achieved on a per-light fixture basis through the use of the unique VABOSS Intelligent Lighting Controller.
By integrating the controller into the advanced lighting fixture, all energy benefits can be achieved without needing to rewire control cabling and sensors, installing a central control system or developing site-specific lighting control programs.
Ask your manager to contact VABOSS. They’ll put you in touch with a distributor who can do an audit and model savings for you. They’ll provide a proposal and contract installation.
Energy consultant and lighting engineer; GenesisNow, has modelled a typical warehouse for Kincrome in Scoresby, Victoria, recommending VABOSS control on LED lamps running on Meanwell 0~10v drivers.
This model features an importing company’s 4800 m2 warehouse, located in a high density industrial precinct close to an arterial road network. The engineers modelled 75% racking / 25% open space.
*Typically in a day-lit and frequently unoccupied warehouse such as Kincrome, VABOSS controls achieve an energy saving of 80-90%
Typical or Configurable
- High performance PIR presence detection with configurable delay / validation
- Daylight harvesting trigger levels and light reduction ratio
- Wireless access to reconfiguration and reporting
- Manual dimming override control
- Two channel sensor support
- Two channel dimming and power control
- A real-time clock with several days’ backup power
- Independent Maximum and Dimmed values for the three different time of week profiles.
- Independent Dwell time and Turnoff delay time for the three different time of week profiles.
- Three channel, half-hourly reporting with storage for 1 year.
- Wireless access to reconfiguration and reporting
- Recording options include power usage and temperature
- Individual day of month/month report query.
Bespoke Extensions
- An ability to operate as a standalone sensor in a low power, battery operated mode for extended time periods, with either internal storage or wireless links to master stations
- Location awareness and response to events signalled by defined, group related, controllers
- Individual response to a master, group controller
- Support of additional sensor types
- Specific actions at certain times of the week
- Customisable logic control modules
Configurable Features
Standard
- Cost-effective sensors allow independent lighting control of every HiBay light fixture
- Optional master-slave control of sets of lower power lighting fixtures (LoBay, Task Lighting, etc)
- High performance PIR presence detection with configurable delay / validation
- Daylight harvesting trigger levels and light reduction ratio
- Configurable burn-in blackout period for T5 fluorescent lighting systems
- Wireless access to reconfiguration and reporting
- Manual dimming override control
Tailored
For specialised applications, the VABOSS HiBay controller software has been designed with a wide range of bespoke functionality that can address virtually any difficult site’s energy management requirements, such as:
- Two channel sensor support with other sensor type options
- Two channel control interface for 0-10V dimming
- A real-time clock with several days’ backup power
- Independent Maximum and Dimmed values for the three different time-of-week profiles.
- Independent Dwell time and Turnoff delay time for the three different time-of-week profiles.
- Three channels of half-hourly reporting with storage for 1 year.
- Recording options include power usage, presence detection counts and temperature.
- Individual day of month/month report query.
- An ability to operate as a standalone sensor in a low power, battery operated mode for extended time periods, with either internal storage or wireless links to master stations
- Location awareness and response to events signalled by defined, group related, controllers
- Individual response to a master, group controller.
- Specific actions at certain times of the week
- Customisable logic control modules
Hardware Features
Standard
- DALI, DSI, 0-10V and direct relay lighting/ power control.
- Integrated mains power supply.
- Flexible PIR Sensor types and mounting options e.g. High Sensitivity, Spot, Office, Long Distance(10M) \
Optional
- Flexible ultrasonic and microwave sensor options
- Extensible 8-way independent 1 amp, 240V AC zero crossing power control circuits.
- Configurable, leading or trailing edge dimmer circuit control for non-standard loads.
- Up to 200 Watts of PWM Drive capability for direct control of LED circuits.
- Additional analogue and digital sensors for other ambient characteristics, gas, humidity, temperature etc…
- Very low power “stay awake” on power outage capability.
- Customized vision processing algorithms where conventional sensors are unsuitable
Configuration & Reporting
The Intelligent Light Controller supports the Bluetooth V 4.0 low energy (BLE) communications protocol. This facility allows each controller to communicate with the following communications devices:
- PC with a BLE Dongle combination,
- Android or Apple Tablet (BLE equipped)
- Smartphone that supports the BLE standard (e.g. iPhone 4+ + or Android V4.3+ phones)
Ask your manager to contact VABOSS. They’ll put you in touch with a distributor who can do an audit and model savings for you. They’ll provide a proposal and contract installation.