SmartScan Internal and External

Projects utilising the Thorlux Smart System can frequently benefit from energy savings in excess of 70% when compared with conventional technology.


SmartScan is a revolutionary wireless lighting control system that allows users to monitor their energy performance data and complete operational information for all SmartScan standard and emergency luminaires.
Information is displayed on the SmartScan website which can be accessed from anywhere using a computer, laptop, tablet or smart-phone.
The clear graphical user interface provides an overview of the whole site, through to the performance and operation of an individual luminaire.
Her Majesty the Queen has selected Thorlux Lighting as a winner of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation, for the SmartScan lighting management system.
Integrated intelligent lighting management providing maximum energy savings for internal applications.
View SystemIntegrated intelligent lighting management providing maximum energy savings for external applications.
View SystemSelf-testing emergency luminaires with integral battery for 3 hour emergency operation.
View SystemSmartScan utilises a wireless mesh network. Each device acts as a repeater, ensuring that data signals always find a suitable communication path. Groups are easily created and changed providing future flexibility without altering wiring.
An operational frequency of 868 MHz (922 MHz in Australasia) provides excellent transmission distances and better penetration of signals.
Intelligent algorithm with low transmission of data – transmits less than 1% of total time (99% of time wireless is off) - reduces wireless traffic increasing reliability.
Software uses simple wait before transmit logic to ensure error free transmissions.
The SmartScan Gateway and compatible SmartScan Internal, SmartScan External and SmartScan Emergency luminaires simply require a mains connection. All communication cables are replaced by the mesh network so there is no need for data cables, additional power supplies or control modules.
Using a single robust hand held infra-red programmer luminaires can be very quickly and easily commissioned, and all operational settings can be fine tuned in the future if desired.
Customer assurance that the system and luminaires are fully compatible - designed and manufactured by Thorlux in the UK. SmartScan builds on the ultra reliable first wireless generation of Smart - SmartTR.
The SmartScan Gateway uses the mesh network to communicate with individual luminaires, sending out instructions such as emergency lighting automatic testing times. It also reads energy performance data and full lighting status from SmartScan luminaires and transmits it to the World Wide Web for viewing using tablets, smart-phones, laptops and computers.
Platform 2 only
Luminaires operate on a stand-alone basis;
Smart luminaires link wirelessly in groups for presence detection and scene setting. Energy performance data and operational status information can be retrieved using the SmartScan Programmer.
Emergency luminaires are self-test with the addition that operational status and most recent emergency test information can be retrieved using the SmartScan Programmer.
The same luminaires are also very simply wirelessly linked into a Gateway which collects and transmits their energy performance data and complete operational information, for all SmartScan standard and emergency luminaires, to the World Wide Web for viewing using tablets, smart-phones, laptops and computers.
Projects initially installed to Platform 1 can easily be upgraded later to Platform 2 by installing a SmartScan Gateway
Projects utilising the Thorlux Smart System can frequently benefit from energy savings in excess of 70% when compared with conventional technology.
The factory fitted addition of a SmartScan transceiver, to a Thorlux Smart luminaire, introduces the latest wireless mesh network technology and replaces the wired Motionline communication signals between luminaires with sophisticated, trouble free wireless transmissions.
Each transceiver can be individually programmed with a SmartScan Programmer during commissioning, and assigned to work exclusively within a particular building, or group created within that building. Energy performance data and operational status can be retrieved using the SmartScan Programmer.
SmartScan uses 868 MHz (922 MHz in Australasia) secure radio communication chosen for its excellent transmission distance and object penetration, especially useful within buildings. Each luminaire acts as a wireless node, repeating each command received on to the next luminaire, providing a robust system that will always find a communication path.
At Platform 1 all SmartScan emergency luminaires are stand-alone. Each luminaire will self-test to the schedule specified in BS EN 50172:2004.
The operational status of each luminaire is displayed by the status LED and operational status information can be retrieved using the SmartScan Programmer. Manual tests can also be initiated at each luminaire using the SmartScan Programmer. The user, legally, will need to inspect each luminaire at prescribed intervals to monitor test status and manually log the results.
Addressing - Each SmartScan transceiver can be assigned an address to suit its application.
The following parameters are programmable:
Identifies devices that are within the same system and forms the boundary for the wireless mesh network to prevent adjacent buildings communicating.
All luminaires with the same building address and the same group address will work together for presence detection and scene control. Up to 254 different zones can be created in one building.
Individual luminaires within each group can be given a unique address to provide identification.
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Compatible SmartScan Internal, Smart External and SmartScan Emergency luminaires wirelessly communicate with each other and the Gateway through the mesh network.
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The Gateway transmits energy performance and status reports for both standard and emergency luminaires to the SmartScan web server.
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Users employ their chosen device to access the energy performance and status reports.
Delivers full energy performance reports.
Provides emergency lighting status information.
Provides SmartScan luminaire status information.
Management of emergency lighting testing dates/times.
Management of external lighting switching times.
Provides occupancy profiling information.
Provides air quality information.
Management of ColourActive regime.
The system is accessed using a web browser, there is no need for a specific app or piece of software.
Records can be accessed remotely with a username and password.
Energy performance data, emergency lighting testing records, occupancy profiles, air quality data, “as fitted“ drawings, Interactive drawings and commissioning certificates are stored remotely on the web server.
The SmartScan Gateway provides daily uploads of the system status to the website. Secure access allows the user to view full luminaire status of the whole installation, individual groups of luminaires or individual control gear items within a luminaire.
The website provides an easy to read visual reference highlighting the following:
A full history of test reports is also available to view.
External lighting can be used in a number of ways, so flexibility of control is required. ON and OFF times can be set on the SmartScan website. SmartScan External groups can be configured in three ways:
In all three scenarios, the integral light sensor ensures luminaires are OFF if there is sufficient daylight.
In the example below, timings are set to turn the luminaires ON between 17:00 and 20:00, and OFF between 00:00 and 06:00 the following morning. Automatic presence control (with light sensor override) is enabled outside of these times.
Buildings are an expensive resource, both to construct and to maintain, and it is therefore essential that they are used efficiently. Consequently, building and facilities managers need to understand clearly how their rooms and spaces are being utilised. This may be, for example, to monitor the usage of teaching spaces, meeting rooms, or the frequency of access to aisles in a large warehouse.
SmartScan now has the ability to provide occupancy profiling information. The data collected from the SmartScan Sensor, incorporated into the luminaire, can be used to monitor room occupancy even when the lamp is turned off.
Research shows that air quality has an impact on health, and could potentially affect an individual’s well-being, comfort and performance in the workplace. Poor air quality may lead to symptoms such as headaches, fatigue and eye irritation.
Each day air quality data is gathered by the SmartScan Gateway from every SmartScan Air Quality Sensor and included in the Gateway’s status upload to the SmartScan website. Authorised users can then view the air quality profiles as an annual, monthly, weekly or daily report. This data is available for groups and/or individual luminaires.
SmartScan Interactive Drawings provide a simple and interactive effective method of viewing system information including occupancy profiling, status, energy savings and air quality sensing.
Thorlux ColourActive high performance LED luminaires incorporate dual populated PCBs where LEDs with two different colour temperatures (3000 K and 6500 K) are combined.
The daily ColourActive cycle is configured via the SmartScan website. Preset regimes follow the natural daylight rhythm, or specific settings can be set and tailored as required. This gives the user complete freedom to set a colour temperature regime that suits the building’s usage pattern.
06:00 - 3000 K
09:00 - 4000 K
12:00 - 6500 K
15:00 - 5000 K
18:00 - 3000 K
Colour temperatures are set at hourly intervals on the website, where they are processed and transmitted to the building’s ColourActive Gateway. Changes in colour are gradual between settings.
Smart Sensors have been re-engineered with a socket on the back. During production, a wireless transceiver is plugged into a Smart Sensor to convert it into a SmartScan Sensor.
A range of stand-alone emergency luminaires are available with integral wireless connectivity suitable for most application requirements.
SmartScan Internal Luminaires Installation Leaflet
SmartScan Emergency Luminaires Installation Leaflet
SmartScan Touch Installation Leaflet
SmartScan Programmer Installation Leaflet
SmartScan Hub Conventional Installation Leaflet
SmartScan Hub Modular Installation Leaflet
SmartScan Stand-alone Sensor Installation Leaflet