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Have you noticed the skylights or windows in many warehouses?
These natural light sources present an opportunity to significantly reduce energy costs and enhance lighting conditions through daylight harvesting, also known as daylight response.
What is Daylight Harvesting
Daylight harvesting is an intelligent lighting control strategy that automatically adjusts interior electric lighting levels based on the available natural daylight, maintaining a target illumination level. This approach is particularly effective in areas consistently receiving ample daylight, such as spaces adjacent to windows or near skylights.
Benefits of Daylight Harvesting for Warehouses
Many warehouses utilize skylights or daylight from windows, offering a natural opportunity to reduce reliance on artificial lighting. Daylight harvesting capitalizes on this by automatically adjusting electric lights based on available daylight. This translates to significant benefits:
- Energy Cost Savings: Studies show daylight harvesting can significantly reduce warehouse lighting energy consumption by up to 70%. This translates to substantial cost savings on your electricity bills.
- Improved Worker Productivity & Well-being: Natural light exposure has been linked to enhanced employee focus, alertness, and overall well-being. This can lead to increased productivity and reduced absenteeism in your workforce.
- Reduced Maintenance Costs: By lowering reliance on artificial lights, daylight harvesting can extend the lifespan of your warehouse lighting system, reducing maintenance costs over time.
Challenges and Considerations
While daylight harvesting presents advantages, there are challenges to consider.
Daylight generally produces ambient illumination, contributing to overall lighting requirements. In sidelighted spaces, daylight intensity decreases with distance from the aperture (window or skylight), resulting in gradients radiating from it. To address this, luminaires can be arranged in individually controlled rows or groups parallel to the daylight source.
In skylighted spaces, daylight is often distributed more uniformly, allowing lighting design flexibility to meet specific needs.
To provide sufficient and uniform lighting for the warehouse, factors like window sizes, placement, and your warehouse layout should also be taken into account:
- Window Size and Placement: Larger windows strategically placed along walls facing north or south allow for deeper penetration of natural light.
- Warehouse Layout: Consider the layout of your warehouse and tasks performed in different zones. Areas requiring higher light levels might need supplemental lighting.
Tailored Solutions for Warehouse Lighting Needs
Here at AGC, we're committed to providing comprehensive daylight harvesting solutions for warehouses, including daylight sensors, controllers, and compatible LED high bay lights
Daylight Sensor Integration: Our LED high bay lights are compatible with leading daylight sensor brands like Merrytek's MS18 and Haisen's HD06VCRH 7A, seamlessly integrating into your daylight harvesting system.
Zhaga-compliant Compatibility: We offer high bay lights come with Zhaga Book 18 sockets, ensuring compatibility with a wide range of industry-standard daylight sensors for maximum flexibility.
For more details, please feel free to contact us.
