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Bluewater Shopping Centre - Smart Toilet areas

Connor Felstead • 12 September 2024

Bluewater uses Mymesh to upgrade the Toilet areas to Smart

Background

As shopping centres rejuvenate their customer facing areas, toilets, changing rooms and changing areas are an easy energy saving swap out while enhancing the consumers’ experience and feel of the centre.

Challenge

Public facing areas that are in constant use in shopping centres rarely, if ever, turn off or dim. Older style LEDs were burning more energy than newer style ones, while starting to fail or side burn.

Places with high-potential for dirt, grime or other unclean material requires high light output to ensure that they can be cleaned to a high standard for the general public's use.

Testing and recording results of emergency testing is particularly difficult due to lack of access throughout the day because of usage and privacy rights.

Solution

Upgrading Fluorescent to LED is always an easy energy win. But upgrading older LED to newer LED with smart control can be equally as efficient in reducing power consumption. By fitting these toilets with Mymesh, they can be initially dimmed to reduce their initial output for energy saving throughout the day. This also allows them to be dimmed for dynamic lighting and turned off via a monitoring platform when required.

As the usage of the toilets is tracked, this can tie in with the maintenance and cleaning regime- meaning that the toilets can be cleaned solely on actual usage, rather than random or scheduled intervals, saving FTE cleaner's time.

Benefits

Introducing the ability to perform dynamic lighting on any area allows continuous energy saving. Over time, and throughout the year the lighting can be remotely changed to best suit not only the customer’s needs but the energy requirements or restrictions of that time.

As the emergency lighting contains Mymesh, the lighting and emergency element can be monitored consistently while scheduling the emergency tests to out-of-business-hours to ensure the testing does not affect the usage of the surrounding area. This negates any access issues and massively reduces engineering time.