Background

One of the UK’s biggest shopping centres has become one of the most intelligent shopping and leisure destinations in the world following the installation of a new state-of-the-art (lighting) control system.

Located in Stone, Kent, Bluewater is amongst the UK’s largest shopping centres with over 330 shops within 155,700m2 of space and over 13,000 parking spaces. After careful research, Mymesh was the protocol of choice to make the entire mall smart and adaptive.

Challenge

The car parks in Bluewater are spread out around the shopping centre, with approx. 700 lights per floor and 3 floors per car park building, and several buildings per 'colour' code. Very large indeed. Not only did Bluewater want to monitor the emergency lighting, the lighting needed to be controlled based on presence detection with different set-points during the day, evening and a night. the The scale of the operation is significant, and to manage this scale in a robust way is a challenge with most control systems.

Solution

Bluewater has several state-of-the-art parkings to ensure a safe and comfortable experience for its visitors. Mymesh made every light smart, creating a robust and secure data-infrastructure to further develop products and features for the location. This allows the vicinity to operate completely autonomous and sensor-based. In order to stay sustainable during a 24h cycle, all lights are automatically dimmed back to 20% – based on motion detection, when the parking is not in use.

Benefits

Mymesh emergency does this all automatically, saving a lot of resources for the organisation whilst ensuring they stay compliant with the latest regulations. This application received a prestigious LuxAward for being the best emergency lighting product of 2019.

In an ongoing 3 year program, all 8,000 luminaires will be replaced by smart variants. The status at the end of 2019 – 3000 luminaires replaced.