Smart Lighting for University Campuses

Safety.  Sustainability.  Campus Well-Being.

Empowering the next generation with a smart, secure, and energy-efficient environment

A modern university campus is a living ecosystem that operates around the clock. Ensuring the safety of students and staff while managing the rising costs of energy and maintenance is a primary challenge for facility managers. To maintain a secure, welcoming atmosphere without overextending operational budgets, institutions need a responsive, data-driven infrastructure.

TVILIGHT offers an intelligent lighting foundation that adapts to the unique rhythm of campus life. Our wireless control solutions allow universities to tailor illumination to class schedules, evening events, and security protocols. We ensure that walkways, parking areas, and common spaces are brilliantly lit when occupied, while automatically conserving energy when the campus is at rest.

Smart Lighting for School Grounds & University Campuses

Responsive Lighting

Adaptable illumination that synchronises safety with campus activity.

  • The ‘safe passage’ experience. Using Light-on-Demand technology, a ‘safe cocoon of light’ follows students as they move across campus at night, ensuring no one ever has to walk into a dark zone.
  • Academic rhythm scheduling. Program lights to stay bright during peak class transitions and evening extracurriculars, then automatically transition to a ‘security glow’ during late-night hours.
  • Emergency & security integration. Lights can be set to 100% brightness via the management platform to guide first responders or signal alerts to the student body.
  • Atmospheric scene management. Thanks to native DALI DT6, DT7, and DT8 support, easily adjust light levels and colours for graduation ceremonies, festivals, or seasonal events via a central dashboard to ensure the campus reflects the right mood.

One Platform for the Entire Campus Estate

Manage quadrangles, areas around faculty buildings, libraries, and student halls, sports grounds and car parks from a single screen.

  • Unified campus management. Monitor and manage every light point across vast, spread-out grounds from one central interface.
  • Real-time integrity monitoring. Receive instant alerts if a lamp fails or if the system detects unusual power drops, enabling proactive response to potential vandalism or malfunctions.
  • Mobile operational control. Empower on-site security and maintenance teams with a dedicated app to instantly override schedules for late-night event setup or emergency repairs.
  • Space utilisation insights. Use sensor-driven occupancy data to understand how outdoor common areas and study squares are being used, helping administrators optimise campus planning and security patrols.
One Platform for Smart Outdoor Lighting
Smart Lighting for University Campuses

Built for University Environments

Solutions designed for architectural freedom and mission-critical resilience.

  • Architectural harmony. Compact controllers fit seamlessly onto any luminaire brand, from modern high-masts in parking lots to heritage-style lamps in historic quadrangles.
  • 3-level fail-safe. In the unlikely event of a system failure, lamps return to 100% brightness automatically, ensuring student safety is never compromised.
  • STEM educational value. Transform the campus into a living laboratory where faculty and students can use real-world data to study energy conservation, data science, and IoT technology.
  • Kind to neighbours & night sky. Precise overnight dimming respects the residential streets around the campus, the research observatories on it, and any dark-sky commitments the university has made publicly.

Open and Future-Ready

A standardised foundation for the smart campus of the future.

  • Any luminaire, any generation: Works with Zhaga Book 18 (D4i), NEMA 7-Pin and 5-Pin, DALI DT6 / DT7 / DT8 and 0–10V / 1–10V — allowing for a quick upgrade of existing or new fixtures across the campus.
  • Open standards: TALQ-certified and uCIFI-aligned with a full Open API for effortless integration with existing Building Management Systems (BMS) or security software.
  • Hybrid connectivity. Support for both self-healing RF mesh and Cellular networks provides the flexibility to cover dense academic blocks or isolated research facilities.
  • The IoT launchpad. Every lighting pole serves as a digital asset capable of hosting campus-wide Wi-Fi, air quality sensors, noise monitors, or emergency “Blue Light” stations.
Open & Future Ready Smart Outdoor Lighting

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Client: Royal Holloway University
Solutions: CitySense Plus, CityManager
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Client: Jeju University
Solutions: CitySense Plus, CityManager
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