Power Over Ethernet LED ceiling panel lighting

[mavhc]

https://unifi-led.ubnt.com/

 

Crazy, yet awesome, anyone used it?

[Katy]

$140 though... normal LED ceiling tile panels are about £25-£30 so you'd have to have some pretty unusual requirements (or somewhere with data but no power) to make it worth it...

[mavhc]

Plus buy a load of PoE switches. Guess you could reuse all your old 100Mbit ones.

 

Might be good for a new building, wouldn't have to run 240V around the ceiling, plus centralised battery backup for power outage

[ass17]

Poe home spotlights are next!! [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23] if so I’m in, no more lighting circuits is the future...

[Sibrows]

Give it 5 minutes and you'll get the same thing from China at £10

[FN-GM]

I bet someone will use them to light the comms room. The switch fails and you won't be able to see to replace it!

 

You do a software upgrade on the switch and the lights go out.

 

I don't think they are particle really.

[Edu-IT]

Plus buy a load of PoE switches. Guess you could reuse all your old 100Mbit ones.

 

Might be good for a new building, wouldn't have to run 240V around the ceiling, plus centralised battery backup for power outage

New builds would have emergency lighting though that needs 240v to charge?

[mavhc]

New builds would have emergency lighting though that needs 240v to charge?

 

Well, could this replace emergency lighting and remove the need to install 240v in the ceiling? Would it save money overall?

 

240v lighting is a bit silly really, no battery needs 240v to charge, no led needs it, so it's all down converted to a few volts DC anyway

[FN-GM]

Well, could this replace emergency lighting and remove the need to install 240v in the ceiling? Would it save money overall?

 

240v lighting is a bit silly really, no battery needs 240v to charge, no led needs it, so it's all down converted to a few volts DC anyway

 

Probably not as there is a single point of failure (the switch). There isn't with standard emergency lighting.

[mavhc]

Not really sure why schools need emergency lighting anyway, just have windows

[FN-GM]

Not really sure why schools need emergency lighting anyway, just have windows

 

No good when its dark outside....

[mavhc]

Schools are closed at night though

[newpersn]

Schools are closed at night though

 

Staff are still on site after it gets dark in the winter..... [emoji848]

[mavhc]

Staff are still on site after it gets dark in the winter..... [emoji848]

 

Everyone has a torch built into their phone now anyway

[Edu-IT]

Everyone? I know of at least 3 people in our school who don’t. In addition, a lot of our staff keep their phones in their lockers.

 

For this reason, emergency lighting can be useful.

[computer_expert]

Schools are closed at night though

 

What about boarding schools?

[Katy]

I still can't really see a use - even in new build, 99% of rooms will have power sockets fitted. The extra cost of putting a switch and lighting circuit in for a room with say 6 lights, vs the difference in cost between 6 x $150 panels (plus data cabling, PoE switch and UPS capacity) and 6 x £30 240V LED panels... just doesn't add up.

 

Suppose it's for the odd time where you might need to control the room lighting at a remote site, but I can't really think of any examples that couldn't be done by PIR/microwave occupancy sensor on normal 240V lighting.

 

On the emergency lighting front, we've got quite a few corridors which have classrooms on either side - even in the middle of the day if you turn the lights out they're pitch black.

[Blue_Cookeh]

I think these are more of a technology demo than anything... eventually they'll come down in price enough to be affordable for new builds or office refits.

[mavhc]

I still can't really see a use - even in new build, 99% of rooms will have power sockets fitted. The extra cost of putting a switch and lighting circuit in for a room with say 6 lights, vs the difference in cost between 6 x $150 panels (plus data cabling, PoE switch and UPS capacity) and 6 x £30 240V LED panels... just doesn't add up.

 

Suppose it's for the odd time where you might need to control the room lighting at a remote site, but I can't really think of any examples that couldn't be done by PIR/microwave occupancy sensor on normal 240V lighting.

 

On the emergency lighting front, we've got quite a few corridors which have classrooms on either side - even in the middle of the day if you turn the lights out they're pitch black.

 

No skylights? Or not single storey?

£83 for one with a microwave sensor in, can be wired to other ones so you'd only need a few of those per room I guess

https://www.fastlec.co.uk/jc71355pd-jcc-skytile-ip44-led-panel-and-driver-600-x-600-28w-3000lm-4000k-presence-detection.html

[Katy]

No skylights? Or not single storey?

Both - two storey and no skylights on the top floor, plus the way the classroom doors open onto the corridor (sideways onto a sort of leg off the corridor) means very little light makes it through the little window in the doors.

[jthompson]

Already have enough to look after. Don't want to be in charging of lighting as well, of all things.

As forba school 'not needing' emergency lighting.... I can't even.

[dapaulio]

II like the idea of this. Think of all the fun you could have with it. Stick a raspberry Pi on it with the correct coding and you could have one hell of a disco

Beyond the novelty of it I can’t see an economical use for this in all fairness.

I applaud unifi but I would like to see them consolidating all their systems in to one console rather than have a separate console for each line of product.

A simple solution to that in my opinion would have a master console that moves to each individual console.