Use light sensors in your offices to save energy costs
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Ever noticed at night how office buildings tend to be lit up like Christmas trees and often you can’t see any people in there. Most likely they have been designed with only one or two light switches that cover the entire floor. This means if one person is working then the entire floor is lit up as if everyone was there. Individual offices on these floors often have separate switches although they are still tied to the main switches as well. Once again, people in offices tend to think they are too important to spend the five seconds turning the light off, or wish to leave it on so people think they are still working when they have already left for the day…
Putting sensors in the offices that turn the light off automatically, after,say ten minutes of inactivity, saves an enormous amount of energy. Of course it can be a bit disconcerting if you are working away and haven’t moved enough to activate the sensor so the light suddenly turns off!
