Focus On Safety

Installers and electrical planner face product selection and installation challenges every day. Eaton’s new RoundTech range makes choosing the right product easy. Its unique eFocus capability allows for light distribution to be adjusted for escape routes or open area illumination, resulting in less order codes and simpler product selection.

Its round design helps achieve aesthetic consistency with other building devices and also makes install simple, particularly for recessed finishing, as no specific tools or modifications are required.

RoundTech luminaires make installing emergency lighting quick and easy with standard circular tools for any hole size from 64mm up to 78mm.

Opportunities to further harmonize design look and feel include an optional square trim plus a full spectrum of customized colorways.

Critically, its innovative, single solution eFocus capability makes RoundTech instantly configurable for both escape routes and anti-panic areas, simplifying ordering, warehousing and last-minute changes, as well as reducing errors.

The eFocus function allows you to select what illumination you need for the application. Both wide area anti-panic lighting and narrow focused illumination is possible from the same fitting. Simply select symmetric (antipanic) or asymmetric lighting (escape route) via the dip switch before installing.

In its exit sign version, RoundTech also offers a perfect homogeneity and uniformity of the pictogram illumination and a viewing distance of 20m.

Eaton’s Building Safety Management System (BSMS): a whole new digital experience for emergency lighting from commissioning and connectivity to remote monitoring and maintenance

Emergency lighting failure not only has implications for its direct threat to lives but for the building owners legally responsible for its dependable operation and compliance. High costs and knock-on disruption are other big risks should emergency lighting go down at the last minute - whether it's a large sports venue forced to cancel when expecting huge crowds, a store, retirement home or neighbourhood kindergarten. Eaton`s new building safety management system brings peace of mind by monitoring system status in real time, as well as enabling easy commissioning, preventive and proactive maintenance using a leading-edge cybersecure platform designed for ease of use by service partners.

As well as keeping building owners and facilities managers up to speed on the status of multiple emergency lighting systems across multiple locations – via web and mobile apps – Eaton’s building safety management system cloud-stores evidence of periodic testing for compliance with regulations, so vital for both them and their insurers.

The mobile app takes emergency lighting control and interaction to new levels thanks to its intuitive, single-fingertip. All processes can be carried out in simple, logical steps that minimise the need-to-know complex technical procedures. Real-time push email and pop-up notifications via Eaton's own servers highlight issues the second they occur, enabling rapid and appropriate interventions to keep buildings open for business and their occupants safe. Remote reactive and preventive diagnosis not only saves time, money and environmental impact by enabling the fitting of spare parts in just one visit, it helps optimise human resources by identifying what skills level is needed to make the repair.

An example of a circular offer currently in development is our refurbished self-contained emergency luminaires. These products play an active role in the safe and quick evacuation of people from buildings in emergencies.

We have more than 20 years of experience in ‘eco-design’ in this product area. Starting with the introduction of the first LED-based self-contained emergency lighting system into the market in 2000 and continuing the momentum to integrating ‘eco-design’ into all our emergency lighting product development in France from 2004.

Today all our emergency lighting systems have benefitted from a LCA (Lifecycle Assessment) and Eco-design, including the incorporation of LED light sources, reduced electrical consumption, and the use of optimized hardware amongst others.

After months of research looking at used products, we developed a refurbishing process for each of our luminaires and we will be launching the service to our French market in early 2024.

This circular offer consists of the collection of used self-contained emergency lighting luminaires, refurbishment of the item in our local workshop and return to the customer.

One look, one product family, meet hundreds of projects requirements

A project can have different requirements for emergency lighting. Eaton´s new FlexiTech EW, EC and SU range of luminaires offer a uniform design, have a robust construction and are available in different viewing distances, technologies and mounting options to help you fulfil all project requirements.

FlexiTech EW, single-sided Exit sign Wall mounted, delivers 12m, 20m or 30m viewing distances and comes with four non-adhesive inlay exit legends. Lightguide technology for homogenized illumination of the pictogram will make even more visible the exit sign for safer evacuation.

FlexiTech EC, single- or double-sided Exit sign Ceiling mounted, delivers 20m or 30m viewing distances.

FlexiTech SU (Safety light with Uniform illumination) delivers universal light distribution (420 lm) equally suitable for escape route and open area lighting for mounting heights up to 7.5 m. Its innovative precise micro lenses guide light efficiently along the escape route while thanks to the large light output area the glare is significantly reduced.

FlexiTech CC and CW are combined exit sign and safety light luminaires for ceiling and wall installation. The multi-LED source of the safety light function is equipped with a lens that focuses a maximum amount of light under the luminaire and distributes the remaining light on either side, for example to improve the illumination of safety equipment or staircases. In addition, users can add optional lenses to tailor the light distribution along escape routes to the building at hand.

All easy-to-install housings feature a transparent base plate with a large working space, as well as timesaving, hassle-free screwless terminals and a helpful, built-in spirit level for rapid alignment. A special thermoplastic elastomer derived from the automotive industry, combined with an innovative Eaton-designed and patented double membrane technology on side entries, offers dependable waterproofing on the IP66 housing. It also saves installation time and effort as no cable gland is needed.

Architects and specifiers creating high-end design environments – such as in prestige hotels, offices and other sophisticated locations – need to meet must-have emergency lighting requirements with solutions that fully complement contemporary glass and metal aesthetics. Eaton's SignEdge combines clean, understated lines and premium materials in a single product family range. It offers multiple mounting options and quick and easy installation, coupled with high performance to support safe evacuation. And it comes in choice of white, black and grey finishes directly from stock, reflecting the most high demand colours for architect-specified projects.

SignEdge has been thoughtfully designed to be free of exterior clips, screws and other distracting elements. Patented, frameless, 'light guide' panels in transparent Perspex, feature scratch-resistant, high luminance pictograms that don't just meet but exceed lighting uniformity standards. The aluminium housing further enhances SignEdge's high quality look and feel, making for a sustainable, long-term product that's built to last.