A Novel Emergency Lighting System Design Eliminating Extra Phase Line Installation

Abstract

The emergency lighting system (ELS) is mandatory to be installed at the commercial, residential, and public buildings and must be activated automatically in the case of disasters such as fire, earthquake, flood, hurricane, and electricity power outage situations. Conventional ELS must use an extra phase line to charge its battery as well as to detect the presence of an emergency condition. It is costly to use an additional phase line in the electrical system and requires a new system configuration in the existing systems. In this study, an ELS design is proposed that eliminates the need for additional phase line installation by using power line communication (PLC) circuitry. Additionally, LED lamp is preferred instead of fluorescent lamp due to their advantages. The proposed ELS detects the presence of emergency and power outage conditions and then charges the battery of the system through the PLC.

KEYWORDS:

• Boost converter
• Emergency lighting
• ELS
• LED lamp
• OFF mode PLC

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The authors wish to acknowledge EAE Elektrik Company in Turkey for their support in this work.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Notes on contributors

Zeynep Hasirci Tugcu

Zeynep Hasirci Tugcu received the BTech, MTech, and PhD degrees in electrical and electronics engineering from Karadeniz Technical University (KTU), Trabzon, Turkey in 2008, 2011 and 2017, respectively. She studied for her PhD thesis in Halmstad University, Sweden for one year. Her areas of interest are communication systems, mobile and satellite communication, propagation modeling, vehicle-to-vehicle communication, power line communication, and smart grids. Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]

Ismail Hakki Cavdar

Ismail Hakki Cavdar received the BTech degree from Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey in 1985; MTech and PhD degrees from Karadeniz Technical University (KTU), Trabzon, Turkey in 1988 and 1994, respectively. He was a visiting professor at Smart Grid Lab in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Akron, OH USA in 2011. His areas of interest are power electronics, communications systems, mobile and satellite communication, propagation modeling, power line communications and smart grids. Email: [email protected]