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Emergency lighting

Safety ensured by light – even in challenging environments

Emergency and signal luminaires

Emergency luminaires are an important part of a building’s lighting system: If the lighting fails, everyone is left in the dark. Disorientation is one of the less harmless outcomes, whereas panic or injury is much more serious. Reliable emergency lighting is therefore indispensable for the safety of building users. This also applies to environments that require particularly robust lighting.

Emergency lighting during operation
Emergency lighting has various tasks to fulfil: As standby lighting, it enables people to continue working. Safety lighting, which includes safety sign luminaires, ensures that people can exit a building safely.

Safety or standby? – Emergency lighting for various tasks

Emergency lighting falls into two categories: Safety lighting and standby lighting. What is the difference? Standby lighting ensures that work can continue. In industrial operations, for example, mains-independent emergency lighting enables important work to be completed or systems to be shut down in a controlled manner. Safety lighting, on the other hand, is used to enable employees or visitors to leave a building safely.

LED emergency lighting for challenging environments

Reliable emergency lighting is mostly needed in demanding circumstances in particular, but it must also be able to withstand its environment. Many of our luminaires can be converted for operation on a centrally supplied emergency lighting system. From the outside, they are no different from other luminaires and can withstand the same conditions. However, they can be integrated into central battery emergency lighting systems. They can also be connected to a control system. If the power fails, these luminaires automatically switch to emergency operation. This ensures a minimum level of illumination even if there is a voltage drop. At the same time, these special luminaires integrate seamlessly into the lighting system.

Emergency lighting is discreetly integrated into the lighting system.
Emergency lighting is often discreetly integrated into the lighting system. If a voltage drop occurs, they switch over to emergency operation.

Single-battery luminaires in particularly cold or hot environments

A central battery system is not necessary or feasible in all areas. In this case, single-battery luminaires can be used. Each of these luminaires contains its own battery, which supplies the luminaires with power initially in the event of a power failure. In particularly cold or hot areas where the use of batteries in the luminaire is out of the question, external emergency lighting supply units can also be used. They contain all temperature-sensitive components as well as the battery and supply the LED with the necessary power in case of an emergency.