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Lighting the way in Healthcare Facilities
Healthcare facilities support a wide range of occupants, spaces and activities. From small doctors’ offices to large hospital complexes, healthcare encompasses a vast variety of different applications for diverse patients, staff and programs. Critical to the different levels of care is focused on proper lighting and automated control systems. As a result, electrical system designers, contractors and installers are challenged to select and implement the right lighting systems for each specific healthcare environment. They are relying on knowledgeable suppliers for their support and guidance with system and product selection.
Lighting plays an important role in improving both the patient experience and staff’s ability to provide the required level of care. Specifiers need to think about lighting that promotes healing and helps the patient feel relaxed and calm as well as how to conserve energy, such as utilizing existing light for daylight harvesting. There is also a need for bright, clean and vibrant lighting with accurate color rendering to help professionals diagnose and treat patients. Lighting and controls solutions can help meet the specific requirements of hospitals —from precision task lighting for clinical spaces to soft, ambient lighting in visitor areas and patient rooms. |
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| The rise in IoT lighting and controls has led the industry to distributed lighting systems, which are connected to the integrated building automation system. This results in simple, secure and highly scalable lighting solutions to meet the needs of staff and patients in any hospital facility. Lighting control systems can be easily customizable and configurable for both large hospital facilities and smaller off-campus healthcare facilities alike. In addition to being scaled to support a variety of site conditions and sizes, lighting controls solutions are designed to work with and improve the technology customers are already using, and evolve and change overtime as the design and needs for the space change. |
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Leviton Simplifies Healthcare Lighting Solutions
Integrated lighting systems are designed for safety and security, but also provide additional benefits, such as energy savings through remote management capabilities. Lighting control systems and fixtures are being designed with wellness as a priority, helping to support the health and well-being of the people that occupy and operate the spaces in which they serve. |
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Leviton offers a full line of lighting solutions (i.e. luminaires, troffers, under cabinets, pendants) and control systems for all healthcare facilities, big or small. Leviton’s line of lighting controls includes programmable touch screen, digital and wireless interfaces. Through easy-to-use control interfaces, room operators can change the lighting in a specific zone or room to simulate morning time with a press of a button. This can be accomplished more quickly and affordably with these technologies than it has been in the past.
For smaller healthcare facilities and standalone locations, Leviton’s exclusive Provolt Room Controller (PRC) system simplifies advanced lighting controls by integrating several control strategies in a compact, self-contained and easy-to-install device. The provolt controller combines line-voltage occupancy or vacancy sensing and a photocell into a self-contained unit. They’re managed through in-room keypads or tied together and remotely commissioned and controlled through the Provolt PRC app.
Depending on the size and applications required in larger healthcare facilities, centralized control systems are changing the way commercial LED lighting control systems are designed. A recent major innovation in this space is simplifying fixture design in patient rooms, combining what has historically been multiple fixtures into one single fixture. In response, the control system operating these fixtures and the interfaces that support them can be easily scaled and operated based on the number of lighting zones needed for the space. |
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Leviton solutions for large-scale healthcare facilities include GreenMAX® DRC (Distributed Room Controls) and Sapphire™ Touch Screen Lighting and Room Controller. These systems can be wired or wireless LED or fluorescent integrating the Sapphire Touch Screen for a configurable user interface or through GreenMAX Relay Control Panels for additional LED control capabilities. Sapphire provides a full-scale touchscreen control solution for scene control, scheduling, occupancy sensing, daylighting, color tuning, and AV interconnection. Both include centralized building lighting control and daylight harvesting, built-in time clock and scheduler and a low-voltage input for connection of photocells, occupancy sensors, low-voltage switches and digital switches for a comprehensive yet easily installed energy management solution.
Leviton lighting and control products and solutions comply to all national and state codes, such as IECC, ASHRAE 90.1 and Title 1, which specify requirements for energy-efficient designs and egress lighting, including, well-marked exits and emergency lighting are necessary to maintain the safety of patients, visitors, and staff.
Let Leviton be your guide on the latest lighting and control innovations in the healthcare space as well as keeping you up-to-date on the code updates. You can learn more about additional specific product code compliance at Leviton.com/energycodes or contact your Leviton sales rep directly and we can put together custom training programs, in person or virtually for you and your customers. |
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| Leviton Mfg. Company Inc. |
201 North Service Rd.
Melville, NY 11747
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