Light control makes use of daylight and saves on electricity
- 07 Sep, 2022
- News and Press Coverage , Blog
By switching to LED, you can save 50-60 percent of the electricity bill - and when supplemented with RN Solutions' lighting control, power consumption can be further reduced by 50 percent.
With LED light sources and light control from RN Solutions, you can save a lot of money on electricity, and this is especially true if there is a large amount of natural light in the barn. Typically, the costs to keep lights over the animals are reduced by 50-80 percent a year, depending on the current lighting.,
The savings are achieved by the fact that with RN Solutions' lighting control, you can adapt the light to the actual conditions . The light control can measure real-time light, and that is a big difference from, for example, if you have had a light sensor on the gable, which makes the light either turn on or off.
Automatic lighting control
Your big advantage is that once the light control is installed, you don't have to touch it anymore - it will run itself. And you actually don't notice if the light is turned off or if it is turned on. You can even define via your phone that you should always have 120 lux at certain points, and then the light control will always regulate the light, regardless of whether there is light falling from outside. If there is suddenly a cloud in front of the sun, it wants to constantly regulate the light, so there is always, for example, 120 lux. So the barn only uses exactly the amount of electricity it needs to maintain an even light level for your animals.
Every time you go into a barn and turn on the light, all the animals normally start up, and it is deeply stressful for them, because now "something or other happens." When the animals have optimal light all the time, both your production and your reproduction will be more even.
On a summer day with lots of sun, it doesn't mean much, because then the light just goes out - but when it's very dark during the day, it can have a big impact on productivity. Often we find that either the light is on or it is off - and this means that the animals are either getting too much or too little light. With light control, the light never becomes a stressful moment for the animals, so in addition to lowering electricity consumption, you also increase animal welfare in the barn.
If you choose a lighting solution with lighting control from RN Solutions, we pre-program the system based on the layout of the barn, so that the lighting is individually adapted to the individual departments. Our products are made for the individual barn with thorough instructions on how lights and light control should be installed in the barn. And when the individual components are set up, the user should in principle just scan a QR code with their phone to start the smart lighting.
Three good reasons to choose light sources from RN Solutions in the light-open barn:
1) 5 – 10 year warranty
2) 50,000 or 100,000 hour lifespan
3) All equipment is waterproof and has a special coating against ammonia