CP Northern delivers leisurely lighting control
Networked lighting control from CP Northern is providing a sophisticated lighting-management strategy for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Leisure Centre in Rugby. Operated by Greenwich Leisure, it includes a 100-station gym, 25 m 8-lane swimming pool, studio pool, climbing wall, 6-court sports hall and coffee shop. The lighting-management strategy is designed to maintain appropriate lighting levels while minimising energy consumption.
The main sports hall has quite complex switching requirements to suite the various activities. To make this easy for leisure-centre staff to manage on a day-to-day basis, CP Northern has provided a scene panel for setting different lighting levels, combined with a switch that controls each court individually.
Circulation areas and changing areas have presence detection to turn lighting off when areas are not occupied. Further energy savings are achieved by dimming lighting near windows when there is enough daylight.
Volt-free contacts ensure the lighting responds appropriately in the event of afire alarm or intruder alarm.
A fire alarm will activate all lighting for the duration of the alarm.
An intruder alarm will turn on all lighting apart from the foyer and reception, which will dim to 50 lx to provide a safe exit route.
The lighting-control system is linked to a head-end PC that can be accessed remotely by CP Northern for monitoring and adjustment.
