Industrial LED High Bays

Due to the dimensions and power of LED Highbays, they are ideal for replacing the old discharge lamps installed in industrial buildings, as they take up much less space and offer higher quality lighting with lower consumption.

Types of Industrial LED Highbays

Within the industrial highbays we can find different types depending on their shape, round highbays (UFO) or linear, or their performance (adjustable, with motion sensor, etc...).

UFO Highbays

This type of industrial highbay has a circular shape that spreads the light evenly around a circumference. In addition, you can choose different angles of amplitude, depending on the space in which you want to use it, for example:

If the workplace is in a narrow area, such as the aisles of an industrial building where forklift trucks and operators pass through, we can choose between 30º and 60º of opening.

If, on the other hand, it is an open space such as a workshop where the ceilings are high, the work is at a considerable distance and a lot of lighting is required in almost all parts of the hall, angles of between 90° and 120° are desirable.

Also, the latter type of opening could be used in commercial spaces, sports facilities, etc...

Adjustable UFO Highbays

There are two types of regulation of UFO highbays:

• DALI dimming system: this is a protocol for regulating the luminous flux of a luminaire, in this case the UFO highbays. For its installation, an additional two-wire cable is required which will function as a control bus sending a digital signal by means of a voltage between 16 and 17V in charge of managing the amount of light of the UFO highbay. One of the important features of this dimming system is that it has a bidirectional communication from the master to the luminaires. It allows us to distinguish between the different luminaires up to a maximum of 64 and up to groups of 16.
• 1-10V dimming system: this allows dimming between 1% and 100% of the lighting intensity. This system differs from DALI in that the latter is a protocol and 1-10V dimming is a control signal. Its communication is unidirectional from the master to the luminaires, and it does not allow discrimination between luminaires or the creation of groups of luminaires.

UFO motion sensor highbays

One of the components that we can add to our bells is the motion sensor so that it is self-sufficient and, depending on the configuration that we give it, it turns on or adjusts to a higher intensity when we pass near it.

Intelligent UFO highbays

Over the years, new technologies, apart from our homes, have reached the tertiary sector, making it a more autonomous system.

The UFO highbays include Zigbee protocols that work with WiFi, Bluetooth, etc... to be able to control it from our smartphone and program it with the different options offered by the different compatible applications.

An example of these systems would be the Zigbee protocol with which our UFO Smart Bells work. For correct operation of the UFO we will need to connect it to a gateway that will communicate with the router to which we are connected via WiFi.

There are two types of Gateway, those that connect to the router via WiFi and those that connect via a network cable, the latter will have greater reliability and less signal loss.

Once we have connected the router to the gateway and the gateway to the UFO bell, we can control them in groups or individually from our smartphone.

Linear Highbays

Another type of industrial highbay is the linear hood. They have a rectangular shape that distributes the light linearly and at a wide angle.

These linear bells can be dimmable 1-10V and non-dimmable.

Where LED highbays can be used

There are a multitude of spaces in which the LED highbay can be used, and most of them have IP65 protection or higher, so they can also be used outdoors or in wet areas.

The use of industrial highbays occurs in very large spaces in the tertiary sector, mainly industrial buildings where different activities are carried out, such as: assembly lines, factories, workshops, warehouses...

In addition, there are industrial buildings used for sports activities that are open-plan spaces in which industrial LED Highbays are used due to their height.