Dear Reader:

The more granular you can make the zoning, the more money your firm will save given reduced energy waste. Cutting the lighting system of a plant into zones can be challenging, but with a few ‘rules-of-thumb’ the task can be made to be much easier.

It doesn’t matter how efficient – or inefficient – a fixture is if it’s off, and giving each fixture its own sensor and setting it to control that fixture independent of others will generate the greatest savings. However, the Building Manager will want to be thoughtful, and the following is a window into how our contracting team does it:

• Production Areas – Zoned by work space. When an employee comes into his/her area, all two or three lights directly above behave in concert.
• Circulation Aisles – Typically granular (by individual fixture), but it depends in part on the amount of traffic exists down a given aisle. Too much On/Of...