The college’s Emergency Lighting system was outdated creating a number of challenges including a lack of regulatory compliance, unacceptably high maintenance costs and a testing and compliance process that was cumbersome and ineffective.

The college was looking to improve the situation to address the above challenges and properly protect staff, students and site visitors.

Oxford College appointed emergency lighting specialist, Powercor and their technology partner Clevertronics, to supply and install a state-of-the-art emergency lighting system into their sites.

The system supplied included new energy-saving luminaires combined with L10 Lithium Nanophosphate batteries, creating a robust and money-saving system. Zoneworks XT HIVE connects light fittings via Dynamic Self-Managed Meshing for fully integrated control.

Maintenance would be minimal as a result and all monitoring managed remotely with automated immediate flagging of any issues if they did occur. Gone were the days of a technician having to visit the site and inspect every emergency light individually.   

Compliance reporting is also now automated, saving the facilities team considerable time and effort over the course of a year.