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Lighting control system at Torbay Hospital
Open Technology’s intelligent lighting control sys-
tem, LiGO, is fully operational at Torbay hospital’s
new 14-bed intensive care unit, which opened
earlier this year.
LiGO’s features include circadian balancing,
which ensures that the colour temperature of the
lighting matches the times of day and night. This
function is helpful in ensuring that intensive care
patients have better sleep patterns to aid their
recovery.
The lighting control system also makes the
work of hospital staff easier. Lighting in all areas
of the ward, including bed bays, offices and cor-
ridors, can be controlled locally and configured to
the clinicians’ needs. The system is controlled by
easy-to-use touchscreen interfaces located in each
of the two nurses’ stations in the unit.
The LiGO lighting control system was easily
integrated with the hospital’s Trend Building Man-
agement System (BMS), which was installed by
Trend’s approved partner Colton Controls. Overall
system design was carried out by Hoare Lee in
Plymouth and installation was completed byTotus
Engineering.
According to Open Technology’s managing di-
rector Chris Bedford, the system was integrated
within a day, before the unit was completed, and
after the staff had an all-important opportunity
to see how the specified operations worked for
them. Minor but important changes were required
and LiGO was able to achieve these in real-time.
“In fact,” said Bedford, “in the time it took the
commissioning team to have a coffee break, the
changes were implemented and demonstrated to
the team’s satisfaction.”
The installation of the DALI System by Totus
Engineering was fault free, ensuring commission-
ing was straight forward.
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