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The Challenge
Situated in Birmingham, this event venue accommodates more than 500 events annually, attracting over 2.4 million guests. With 18 exhibition halls, 32 conference suites and a versatile outdoor space, it caters to events and exhibitions of various sizes and types.
The varied requirements of multiple exhibitors meant the lighting system needed to deliver both flexibility and simplicity, ensuring scenes could be easily recorded and recalled by non-technical users. The lighting design and control system needed to be simple to understand and use allowing the operators to easily maintain and control the lighting at different levels, in each of the exhibition halls.
Lighting plays a significant role in these networking space, it decides how a brand is presented at an exhibition stand or how it is perceived by people. It was important to consider how lighting levels were even and consistent transforming the way in which product is presented, enhancing their visual appeal creating an interactive experience.
The Solution
High output DALI dimmable LED luminaires were used providing general lighting to the halls, facilitating meaningful interactions between exhibitors and attendees.
The lighting control system was designed specifically for convenience and ease of use, allowing non-technical staff to define the lighting scene from a custom 24-inch touchscreen interface. Touchscreen controls are an efficient method of lighting control, suitable for complex buildings, offering a wide range of control through a simple interface.
Touchscreen lighting control provides flexibility and ease of operation
At this project, the touchscreen control shows a simple graphic representation of each luminaire and its location in the hall, enabling non-technical users to select and adjust individual light levels within each exhibition hall, without needing to delve further into system programming.
Zonal control for various requirements
Depending on the layout of the exhibition, the lighting may need to be set lower in some areas of an exhibition hall, to facilitate presentations and live workshops with stage lighting for example. This can be defined through the touchscreen control, making it easy for non-technical users to raise and lower selected lighting circuit levels and then save system changes as lighting scenes, to be recalled later, or for use during a different event.
Pre-set levels and scenes for daily usage or annual events, can be defined through the touchscreen control, providing ease of operation and smooth lighting performance in all the exhibition halls. The lighting control system also incorporated PIR movement sensors and was integrated with the Building Management System (BMS) to facilitate remote control of the system from a central location.
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