A collaboration between P4, a leading self-testing emergency lighting company, Kablefree Systems, an electronics company specialising in alarm systems operating via radio signals, and a team of microelectronics experts from Northumbria University, has won a prestigious national award for a leading edge development in emergency lighting systems.
Powered by batteries, it requires no data cabling and is efficient and clean to install anywhere – this is a special advantage for hospitals, clinics and medical centres.
Kablefree Systems, which installs radio-based fire detection systems and sees the new lighting system as a natural progression, was an ideal partner for P4, whose FASTEL family of fully automatic self-test systems have set new standards in emergency lighting over the past two decades.
“This is a perfect extension to our range of market leading computer addressable systems,” said P4’s business development manager Alan Daniels. He added: “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 building’s users and without causing damage to the structure. The system offers major advantages in buildings already occupied.”
