Kakatiya Energy launches high efficiency indoor lighting system

Chennai: Kakatiya Energy Systems, an energy management company, has launched Nature Switch Indoor (NSI) lighting control system specially designed to automate indoor light switches based on selected lumen levels. 

Nature switch indoor is an affordable, off–the-shelf alternative to traditional lighting controls, according to a company release, which further added that the lighting system would reduce energy wastages normally associated with manual operation by up to 20 per cent. 

With benefits of energy savings, user friendliness, reduced labor costs and easy installation process, Nature Switch Indoor is uniquely advantageous for industrial and commercial establishments. Having a patented advanced multi-spectral sensor technology, NSI is capable of sensing multiple bands on the electromagnetic spectrum and ensures flicker free lighting. 

Nature Switch Indoor can easily replace traditional lighting controls by a simple integration into the main switchboard, avoiding the need to replace light bulbs and switches.  Additional features like over and under voltage trip and overload trip are provided to offer protective features beyond automated switching, the release further said. 

In an area of about 3000 sq ft, with a lighting load of 1, 000 watt (Rs.6/kwh), deployment of Nature Switch Indoor can avoid wastage of over 2 hours each day, saving Rs.10,512 over the course of one year. This saving is enormous especially when lighting is a major part of electricity consumption contributing significantly to peak load.

“NSI delivers immediate energy savings for industrial and commercial establishments, while at the same time providing an optimum lighting environment. The automated lighting control eases maintenance staff workload so they can be repurposed for more critical job functions,” said. Lakshman Rao, managing director of Kakatiya Energy Systems.

Generally, lights need to be switched on when natural illumination drops below certain levels during the day, due to temporary environmental factors such as rain clouds, and then switched off when natural illumination levels return. Nature Switch Indoor eliminates the burden of manually adjusting the timing of the lights and automatically resets controls based on seasons. This dynamic switching is not found in a traditional timer.