Application of Intelligent Lighting Control System in Railway Station Building

Engineer:Michelle Zhou  Tel:+86 18795636361   E-mail: michelle.zhou@email.acrel.cn

Jiangsu Acrel Electrical MFG Co. Ltd

Abstract: The Railway station house has high requirements for the application of the lighting system, the intelligent control technology applied to the Railway station house lighting design, contribute to better energy saving and environmental protection from the perspective of improving the management level of the Railway station house lighting, for the development of green construction of the Railway station house lighting system and the application of intelligent technology is of practical help.

Keywords: intelligent lighting; control; Railway; station house

0、 Introduction

Nowadays, the application of intelligent lighting control system in the Railway station house, to solve some of the problems of lighting management in the Railway station house, to improve the energy-saving system of the Railway station house green design has a certain role in helping, furthermore, more than one level of green energy-saving and safety management for the use of the Railway station house lighting system consolidate the foundation.

1、 The significance of the application of intelligent lighting system based on the Railway station room

1.1 Maintenance and management costs to control the lighting system

Intelligent lighting control system is mainly composed of three parts: intelligent control terminal, data processing terminal and lighting equipment terminal. Intelligent lighting control system can automatically control the lighting system switch and lighting system brightness based on the environmental brightness, human flow and lighting space size, etc., alleviating the waste of power resources and excessive aging of equipment caused by prolonged lighting. Especially in the intelligent management of the lighting system in the Railway station, intelligent lighting system can be better combined with the lighting needs of the station to adjust the lighting program, improving the operation of the lighting system, the management of the convenience, so as to maintain the good use of lighting equipment at the same time, a reasonable control of the lighting system in the Railway station application costs, reducing the artificial intermediary and the loss of power resources to generate additional cost expenditure. Therefore, the intelligent lighting system is widely used in the Railway station house, effectively make up for the system maintenance and management of the two aspects of the shortcomings, through remote control and Internet control, can also be realized on the lighting system application program adjustment, strengthen the efficiency of the Railway station house lighting system.

1.2 Upgrade the energy-saving and environmental protection level of the Railway lighting system

The use of intelligent lighting system to further simplify the circuit structure. It can realize the management of the lighting system through the unified control of the intelligent terminal, which can reduce the number of external circuit switches and external circuits, reducing the use of basic materials of the lighting system, and meeting the basic needs of energy saving materials. In addition, as the Railway station room application planning needs to meet the basic needs of fire safety, therefore, the use of intelligent lighting system in the Railway station room, the need to control the choice of materials in the design process, the selection of materials should be in line with the basic requirements of energy saving, environmental protection and fire safety, to ensure that the practicality of the intelligent lighting system and safety. Moreover, it is better to enhance the energy-saving effect of intelligent lighting system from another level. In addition, in the design of the control side of the intelligent lighting system, the lighting needs of various regions of the Railway station house are different, so that the use of intelligent lighting system in the Railway station house should be combined with the requirements of the regional lighting to do a good job of diversified design and planning, in order to control the lighting system, lighting time, lighting intensity, so that the use of Railway intelligent lighting system can be targeted to optimize the use of the lighting system to enhance the lighting system of the Railway station energy-saving and environmental protection Level.

2、Application characteristics of intelligent lighting control system in Railway station house

2.1 Complexity

Railway station on the use of lighting system environment has strict requirements, the role played in different environments lighting system is not the same. Therefore, the intelligent lighting control system in the Railway station room need to be able to cope with the complexity of the use of the environment to ensure that all areas within the station room are able to realize the use of lighting systems in complex environments. For example, the use of intelligent lighting systems in the platform, need to take into account the following two factors. The first is the station area lighting design and spatial layout and the intelligent lighting control system should be based on the light intensity, spatial light effect, etc., to adjust the light intensity of each time. Second, is the station lighting system safety design issues. Part of the Railway station design using semi-open layout, prompting the design of the lighting system needs to have cold, corrosion resistance and other basic features, to ensure that in a variety of cases the lighting system can still be safe, normal use. For the semi-closed Railway station platform, according to the train into the station, out of the station order and the standard adjustments to the lighting system lighting direction and lighting intensity, to enable the lighting system to play a warning, prompting and other related roles, in order to better meet the needs of the Railway station use.

2.2 Multi-function

Railway station as an important traffic service station, not only carries the traffic service function, but also need to do a good job on the management of traffic services. Therefore, the intelligent lighting control system in the Railway station room, need to have multi-functional characteristics, in accordance with different needs to adjust the lighting function. The main functions of intelligent lighting control system in the Railway station house are divided into the following three aspects.

Firstly, the lighting system of the environment light interaction function. In order to better give service tips, some Railway stations in the platform, waiting halls and other areas to take different colors of light design, differentiate between the various regions, according to the use of the function of each area to choose the lighting system light intensity, color. Intelligent lighting control system needs to change according to the use of different areas, do a good job of adjusting the lighting program in each area.

The second is the switch automatic control function. There are large differences in passenger traffic in Railway station rooms at different times, the lighting system needs to be adjusted according to the indoor light intensity and the flow of people at different times to do a good job of adjusting the lighting intensity, as far as possible to ensure that the lighting effect of the lighting system at the same time, to reduce the flow of people is lower and the indoor light intensity of the higher regional light density, on the one hand, to realize the automated energy-saving processing of the intelligent lighting system, on the other hand, it can also increase the Railway station room lighting resources required.

Furthermore, fault analysis, data monitoring and remote control functions. Due to the indoor environment of the Railway station room needs to do a good job of real-time dynamic adjustment, based on remote control technology and data monitoring technology to do a good job of manual control function optimization is crucial. In addition, due to the relatively high intensity of use of some of the Railway station lighting system, intelligent lighting system can be based on the use of intelligent data analysis technology, to do a good job on the fault problem independent investigation and early warning, to improve the efficiency of the Railway station lighting system to deal with the problem, improve the efficiency of the Railway lighting system and the stability of the use of the lighting system.

2.3 Safety

Railway stations bear the responsibility of traffic management, based on the relatively large flow of people to ensure the safety of the lighting system is essential. In the early stage, due to the relatively limited level of software technology application, Railway station on the use of intelligent lighting system, there are many problems such as system overload operation, program management confusion and lack of system functions. With the recent years, the level of software technology development year by year, the Railway station on the use of intelligent lighting control system gradually take multiple systems, multiple devices running at the same time. That is, different lighting areas and lighting service objects, the choice of lighting system programs are different, each region has an independent lighting system operation service terminal, once a terminal system failure problems, the rest of the intelligent terminal management system can still be used normally, this way to increase the application cost of intelligent lighting control system, but to improve the security and stability of the lighting system, to avoid intelligent lighting system Large-scale paralysis. At the same time, the Railway station software system to improve the level of maintenance technology, but also for the Railway station on the use of intelligent lighting control system to provide a favorable guarantee, prompting the Railway station lighting system to significantly improve the use of security.

3、 The Railway station room on the application of intelligent lighting control system needs and methods

3.1 Station room channel

Railway station room channel area lighting system design, need to consider the train into the station and out of the station interval channel use, for the relatively large flow of traffic, you can appropriately increase the lighting intensity and lighting time, and vice versa, for the relatively small flow of traffic, you can correspondingly reduce the lighting intensity of the station room channel lighting. Once the station platform in the vacant state, the station room channel lighting density, you need to do according to the channel space design light intensity adjustment, through the sensor equipment and the central vacant equipment network signal transmission, station room channel lighting system control and management. In other words, the use of station room channel area lighting system, at different times, different trips there are big differences, intelligent lighting control system, should be combined with the different use of each time, the different needs of the trips, do a good job on the dynamic adjustment of the lighting control, the use of the system automatically adjusts and manually adjusts the intervention of the two ways, do a good job on the control of the station room channel lighting system, so that the channel light intensity and the effect of the light can always remain within a reasonable range. The lighting intensity and lighting effect in the channel can always be kept within a reasonable range, and the energy-saving effect of intelligent lighting control system can be improved as much as possible.

3.2 Waiting hall

Railway station waiting hall environment is relatively more complex, in order to better ensure the lighting effect, intelligent lighting control system design, should be preset with a variety of variable light effects, and based on the different areas of the waiting hall light needs, in the waiting hall walls and other areas of the installation of physical control buttons, the design of the control buttons can be used both digital physical buttons, but also can be used to control the electronic touch screen, to ensure that the waiting hall Intelligent lighting control system operation convenience. Waiting hall traffic is relatively high, the management of personnel is more difficult. For this reason, the intelligent lighting control system design should take into account the emergency response to emergency situations, without affecting the normal lighting under the premise of a good parallel design of multiple lighting equipment, and to improve the actual load of the intelligent lighting control system as much as possible, to ensure that the lighting system under emergency conditions for normal use. In addition, due to the waiting hall lighting system control, the need to use automatic control, remote control, central control and manual key control and other ways, the intelligent system design needs to be targeted to do a good job of control priority optimization, to avoid operational conflicts between the various control systems and the problem of mistaken contacts, to enhance the use of intelligent lighting control system security.

3.3 Station platform

Railway station platform lighting system design, directly related to the personal safety of passengers. In this regard, the platform intelligent lighting control system design, to do a good job of design planning around the following two aspects.

First, according to the changes in light intensity at different times within the platform to do a good job of adjusting the lighting effect of the lighting system, and to do a good job of lighting in the train on and off the train area, to avoid insufficient light to produce personnel fall and other safety issues.

Second, to do a good job of real-time monitoring of station lighting information, according to the use of the station and lighting, timely adjustment of station light intensity, lighting energy saving on the basis of better lighting effect. The realization of this function, not only to do a good job of software optimization in the intelligent terminal system, at the same time, to connect the server terminal and mobile device terminals, based on the access to the gateway device, clock controller, to realize the remote control operation of multiple ports to ensure that the operator can always control the intervention of the station lighting system, to prevent the generation of management risk issues.

4、 Intelligent lighting control system in the Railway station room in the application of external support systems

Railway station lighting system use, need to cope with a variety of emergency situations, therefore, for the intelligent control of emergency lighting system, should be used with the daily lighting system using two different sets of lighting control program, not only to ensure that the emergency lighting system can play a role in the critical moment, at the same time, but also to avoid the risk of error in the emergency lighting system intelligent program in the management of hardware equipment and software equipment maintenance at two levels, to ensure that Railway Emergency lighting system use, so that the intelligent lighting control system can also play a better role in the application of lighting management program. In addition, the Railway station for the use of intelligent lighting system, should do a good job of regular maintenance, management, reduce the probability of intelligent control system system failure, combined with intelligent lighting control system failure warning module, and actively carry out troubleshooting, to avoid the use of intelligent lighting control system of the Railway station to produce unnecessary maintenance, waste of management resources, and further improve the operational efficiency of the intelligent control system.

5、System function:

1. Switching control: realize switching control of corresponding lighting according to individual lighting circuits, areas and floors in passages, corridors, public areas, stairwells and conference rooms, and monitor the switching status of the controlled circuits.

2. Dimming control: meet the requirements of regional illumination and brightness adjustment, support the monitoring of illumination or brightness in passages, corridors, public areas, stairwells, meeting rooms, etc., and automatically/manually adjust the number of lights on and the brightness of the lights according to the need to make full use of the natural light source to meet the savings in energy and create a comfortable living and working environment.

3. Scene control: support for different scene mode control, according to the functional requirements of different areas, set the scene, complete the control of the relevant lighting fixtures and fittings combination, to meet the beautification of the working environment, improve comfort needs.

4. Lighting circuit monitoring: real-time monitoring of the operating current and switching status of each lighting branch/loop, and automatically analyze whether there is a fault in the circuit and provide early warning.

5. Zoning, total control: support operation management personnel to monitor the real-time monitoring of each area, floor, building lighting status, and according to the need for zoning, sub-floor, sub-building according to the need for zoning control, total control.

6. Real-time alarm: When the module is offline, gateway device is offline or the status feedback and issued control commands are inconsistent, a fault alarm will occur, and the fault alarm information will be recorded and displayed in the interface, prompting the content of the fault time, module location, fault description.

7. History query: query the event records in any period of time, support "the day", "the last 7 days", "customized time period" way to query the history of the event.

6、Site picture

7、Product Selection

8、Conclusion

In summary, the intelligent lighting control system used in Railway station house, improve the convenience, safety and stability of the Railway station house lighting system, at the same time, to meet the basic needs of energy-saving treatment of the lighting system, to avoid unnecessary waste of lighting resources, to a certain extent, for the Railway station house electric power resource management cost control to create favorable conditions.

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Version 2022.05.