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Hello all, Quick query. Currently we have trades teams carrying out emergency lighting test on ~500 buildings on a monthly basis. Our soloution for recording this is messy, utilising Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Some of the buildings contain hundreds of fittings. Is anybody using any software for this that is working well? John
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Hi, We had a similar issue in our retail outlets where I worked previously and were going down the software approach for all compliance type activities i.e emergency lighting, temperature checks, fire tests . We trialed one piece of software that we really liked and it was working well but the business went under before implementation. There are lots on the market and most work on the same primciple. Its best just have a look at a few on a web demo to see what fits your company.
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Originally Posted by: Dawson36394  Hi, We had a similar issue in our retail outlets where I worked previously and were going down the software approach for all compliance type activities i.e emergency lighting, temperature checks, fire tests . We trialed one piece of software that we really liked and it was working well but the business went under before implementation. There are lots on the market and most work on the same primciple. Its best just have a look at a few on a web demo to see what fits your company.
Thanks for te info. yeah we already have enterprise software for managing all of our compliance tasks but I'm specifically looking for something that will allow us to efficiently carry out our emergency lighting inspections using a mobile device that allows you to record faults at the point of work. I'm familiar with the higher level compliance software but never seen anything specifically for emergency lighting which has the detail we require. Not sure it exists?
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Hi, See what you mean. There are systems that do this and would fully automate it back to a control panel to capture the data which can then be printed off. That fine internet search engine will know!
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Originally Posted by: Dawson36394 Hi, See what you mean. There are systems that do this and would fully automate it back to a control panel to capture the data which can then be printed off. That fine internet search engine will know!
As an electrical engineer with considerable IT experience (that is very familiar with the inner workings of Google) I am yet to find anything that is remotely close to what I am lookings for!
It would be very helpful if you were able to point me in the direction of the software you mention.
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At the risk of being ridiculed, could you use something like Iauditor. Not used it myself, but others on here seem fans. As far as I can tell it only outputs to a word document or pdf, so may be hard to collate the information afterwards.
I assume you are looking for something that goes eventually to some sort of database and then produces a “to do” list for anything that failed. The only other suggestion is you can use excel on a phone perhaps a proforma could be created for that and it saved in a central place and automatically extract the information to a database/ control spreadsheet to sort through.
It sort of depends on what you want out at the end.
Chris
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Hi Chris, Thanks for the idea. Yeah certainly the best soloution yet but would take up tonne of time to set up. we literally have tens of thousands of fittings but its this level of detail that I am looking for. Not quite a clean as soloution as I'd hoped for but im not conviced there is much out there. Thanks!!
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john, Depending on how you do your testing & inspection I might have two opetions I can suggest. It may be best if you PM as I am commercialy involved in one of the options, so I don't think that I could post anything here on that.
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