This development is the result of collaboration between P4 (a company which specialises in testing emergency lighting), Kablefree Systems (an electronics company specialising in alarm systems operating via radio signals) and a team of micro-electronics experts from Northumbria University.
The concept won first place in the SME section and also the university-collaboration section. The awards are backed by BAE Systems.
Alan Daniels, business-development manager with P4, explains, ‘Normally emergency lighting requires an extra set of cables for control and information transfer. By producing a radio-based, computer-addressable system, it can be installed at great speed, without the cost of additional data cabling, without affecting the buildings users and without causing damage to the structure. The system offers major advantages in buildings already occupied.’
The system has already been successfully installed in a London hospital.
