Hoarding lights monitoring
Introducing the solution for hassle-free monitoring of hoarding lights! With our state-of-the-art monitoring system, you can ensure that your hoarding lights are always working optimally, preventing any loss of visibility and potential damage to your brand's reputation.
How we can help you...
Say goodbye to the hassle and stress of managing lit up hoardings! We have the solution to make your life easier. Introducing our cutting-edge Hoarding Light Monitoring Service. Never again will you have to deal with client complaints about their advertisements not being visible at night or the frustration of paying high electricity bills due to failed timer switches or tripped circuit breakers. Our service provides round-the-clock monitoring of your hoardings to guarantee that your clients' advertisements are always shining bright and generating maximum impact.
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Our advanced monitoring system not only keeps an eye on the timer switches that control the on and off times of the lights, but it also tracks the electricity mains power supply for hoarding lights. You'll never have to worry about power interruptions or failures, as our central alarm monitoring station will immediately notify you of any issues, and our experienced operators will notify and follow up with the concerned staff.
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We make the process effortless for you. Log in to our user-friendly platform to view the log history of lights on/off time, power failure, etc., and sit back while we handle all alerts and resolve any issues. Our team will only close an alarm event once they receive a "restore" signal from the failed device.
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Transform your hoarding management experience with our Hoarding Light Monitoring Service. Say goodbye to client complaints and high electricity bills and hello to peace of mind. Get in touch with us today to learn more about this game-changing solution!
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Also please feel free to read further to gain a more in-depth knowledge about this service.
A case study:
Hoarding Lighting Monitoring Solution for ABC OOH Media
Client Overview:
ABC OOH Media is a leading outdoor advertising company that specializes in outdoor hoarding advertisements. With a wide network of hoardings in different parts of the city, ABC OOH Media wanted to ensure that their clients' advertisements are visible to the public at all times, day or night.
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Challenge:
ABC OOH Media faced a significant challenge in monitoring the on and off time of the lights in their hoardings. The automatic timer switches used to control the lighting were prone to failures, which would result in the lights not being switched on or off at the designated times. This caused problems for the clients as their advertisements were not visible during the night, and ABC OOH Media had to pay a high electricity bill when the lights were not turned off on time. Moreover, ABC OOH Media had no way of monitoring the electricity mains power supply into the hoarding lights. All these issues resulted in either loss of their reputation or unwanted costs.
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Solution:
ABC OOH Media engaged with Alarm India, a leading alarm monitoring company to provide a comprehensive hoarding lighting monitoring solution. Alarm India installed a monitoring system in the hoarding electrical circuit, which was connected to their central alarm monitoring station. The system monitored the on and off time of the lights. Additionally, the monitoring system also tracked the electricity mains power supply into the hoarding lights and sent alerts to the central monitoring station in case of any power interruptions. The central monitoring station handled all the alerts and notified ABC OOH Media's staff responsible for the hoarding in case of any issues.
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Results:
The hoarding lighting monitoring solution provided by Alarm India has enabled ABC OOH Media to ensure that their clients' advertisements are visible at all times. The monitoring system has been successful in detecting any failures in the hoarding electrical circuit and providing timely alerts to ABC OOH Media's staff, who have been able to rectify the issues promptly. The system has also helped ABC OOH Media to optimize its electricity usage and reduce costs by monitoring the lights on and off timings. ABC OOH Media has been extremely satisfied with the hoarding lighting monitoring solution provided by Alarm India and continues to rely on their services to ensure uninterrupted visibility for their clients' advertisements.
Use case:
monitoring System for Large Lit-up Advertisement Hoardings with Power Supply Monitoring and Alarm Handling
Lit-up hoardings are large-scale advertising structures, often found in urban areas, that are used to display advertisements. Lit-up hoardings are also sometimes called illuminated billboards or lighted signs. They are typically illuminated at night, making them highly visible during night-time. Lit-up hoardings are often placed on the sides of buildings, or in other high-traffic areas where they can be seen by large numbers of people. They are commonly used by businesses to promote their products or services, and by advertisers to reach large audiences with their messages. It is important that the lights on these hoardings are switched on and off at the correct times so that the advertisements are visible when it is dark. Usually, these lights are automatically switched on and off using automatic timer switches which could switch on and off the lights at a set schedule. Most hoarding companies usually switch on the lights for around 3 to 4 hours after the sun sets. This is to reduce the electricity charges because the electricity is billed at a significantly higher rate to these hoarding companies as compared to the electrical connections provided for domestic home use. The failure of the timer to switch off the lights at the set time will cause the hoarding company to pay high electricity bills. On the other side, the failure of the timer switches to switch on the lights at the set time can cause problems for the clients whose advertisements may go unnoticed at night, causing a bad reputation for the hoarding company.
All these large lit-up hoardings will have multiple spotlights to illuminate the hoarding. Another issue arises when one or more of those lights fail to light up. This will also cause partial dark areas in the displayed advertisements causing client dissatisfaction. Hence, it is also important to detect in real-time when there is a fault with any of the spotlights installed in the hoarding.
Another problem that can occur with the lighting system in the hoarding is when there is an interruption of power supply to the hoarding due to various reasons such as a severed service wire, a blown fuse, or any other electrical fault, again leading to the client dissatisfaction and loss of goodwill for the hoarding company.
To avoid all these problems stated above, the hoarding company can install the Alarm India Hoarding monitoring system in the hoarding’s electrical circuit and connect it to our Alarm India Central Monitoring Station (CMS). The monitoring system monitors the lights and electricity supply of the hoardings 24x7 and sends alerts to the CMS in case of any failures or issues. The CMS then handles the alarms and ensures that the necessary processes are followed to rectify the issues. The hoarding company can log into the monitoring system to check the log history of any faults that happened and when the rectification has been done.
By installing this system, the hoarding company could maintain their goodwill with their clients and also avoid high electricity bills.
Following is a use case to better understand the above-described scenarios:
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Primary Actor: Hoarding Company
Secondary Actor: Alarm Monitoring Company
Goal: To ensure the proper functioning of the lights and electricity supply for large lit-up advertisement hoardings and handle any failures in a timely and efficient manner.
Preconditions:
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Large lit-up advertisement hoardings have been installed.
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Timer switches have been installed to automatically switch the lights on and off.
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Alarm India Hoarding monitoring system has been installed in the hoarding electrical circuit.
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The monitoring system is connected to a central alarm monitoring station.
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The hoarding company has contracted the Alarm India CMS to act as a third-party manager to monitor, notify and follow up on any issues with the hoarding lighting system.
Triggers:
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The lights on the hoarding do not switch on at the specified schedule.
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The lights on the hoarding do not switch off at the specified schedule.
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One or more lights installed on the hoarding have failed.
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There is a power interruption from the electricity supply company for more than the specified length of time.
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There is a power interruption to the hoarding lights due to a blown fuse, a severed service wire, or any unexpected power failure.
Scenario:
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The monitoring system detects an issue with the lights on the hoarding.
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The central alarm monitoring station receives the alarm.
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The CMS operator [1] verifies the issue with the hoarding light system.
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The CMS operator contacts the assigned hoarding company staff to rectify the issue.
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The CMS operator makes sure that the processes necessary to rectify the issue are complied with.
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If there is a delay in rectifying the issue, the CMS operator will continually follow up with the hoarding company staff responsible for the rectification.
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If even after multiple follow up with the staff and the issue is not being rectified, the CMS operator will escalate the issue to the higher management of the hoarding company.
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The CMS operator will keep on following up until the issues are resolved.
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The assigned staff fixes the issue with the lights.
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Once the issue is fixed, the monitoring system sends a "restore" signal to the central alarm monitoring station, indicating that the issue has been resolved.
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The CMS operator will not consider the issue as fixed until the “restore” signal is received from the system. I.e., even if the hoarding company staff says that the issue is fixed, but the CMS operator has not received the “restore” signal from the system, the alarm is considered not fixed and the CMS operator will escalate the issue with the higher management of the hoarding company.
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The central alarm monitoring station closes the alarm event once the “restore” signal is received.
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The hoarding company may log into the monitoring system to check the log history.
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The system keeps a record of the lights' and electricity supply status for each hoarding, which could be used for maintenance billing purposes and for analyzing any trends or patterns in the lights' and electricity supply behaviour.
Postconditions:
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The lights on the hoardings are functioning properly.
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Complaints from clients have been avoided.
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High electricity bills have been prevented.
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The hoarding company is notified of any power interruptions from the electricity supply company or to the hoarding lights.
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The alarm monitoring company acts as a third-party manager and ensures that all necessary processes are complied with to rectify any failures.
[1] A “CMS operator” (or “the operator”) is an individual who works at a central alarm monitoring station. The central alarm monitoring station will be manned by these operators 24x7. The operator receives and responds to the alarms generated by the systems connected to the CMS. The operator is responsible for verifying the alarm signals, determining the appropriate response, and communicating with the appropriate personnel or authorities to resolve the alarm event. The operator may also be responsible for maintaining logs of the alarm signals, and ensuring that all alarms are handled in a timely and appropriate manner. The operator acts as a liaison between the remote devices generating the alarms and the personnel or authorities responsible for responding to those alarms, or persons who are responsible to rectify the cause of the alarms.
Technical description:
How we monitors the points of failure in a typical hoarding electrical circuit
A typical hoarding lights wiring diagram is shown in the figure above. There are seven potential points of failure in this system, as explained below:
Our Hoarding Lights Monitoring Service (HLMS) can be added to the hoarding electrical system as shown below, to monitor those potential failures.
Adding the lights monitoring system to the hoarding electrical circuit adds two additional potential points of failure. It is explained below.
Our HLMS continually monitors all those ten potential failure points in real-time 24x7 so that any issues in the hoarding electrical system, or the Lights monitoring system, is reported to the concerned person at the hoarding company. How each potential point of failure is monitored is explained below.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Q: What is Hoarding Light Monitoring Service?
A: It is a service that provides round-the-clock monitoring of the lights on large lit-up hoardings to ensure that they are working correctly and switched on and off at the correct time.
Q: Why do I need this service?
A: If the lights are not switched on at the correct time, clients will create problems as their advertisement will go unnoticed in the night. If the lights are not switched off at the correct time, the hoarding company will have to pay a high electricity bill.
Q: How does the service work?
A: The service monitors the lights and electricity mains power supply into the hoardings. If there is a power interruption, the central alarm monitoring company will be notified. The same is done when the lights are not switched on or off at the set schedule.
Q: Who handles the alerts?
A: The alerts are handled by the central alarm monitoring company, which acts as a third-party manager making sure all the processes to rectify a failure event is complied with.
Q: What happens if the staff does not pick up the call from the alarm monitoring company?
A: If the staff does not pick up the call from the alarm monitoring company, the alarm monitoring company will try calling again after some time until they pick up or will escalate the event to higher managers.
Q: Can the staff of the hoarding company view the log history?
A: Yes, the staff of the hoarding company will be given a user ID which they can use to log into the monitoring system to view the log history of all their connected hoardings.
Q: What does the central alarm monitoring company rely on to close an alarm event?
A: The central alarm monitoring company will only close the alarm event when a "restore" signal has been received from the failed device, and not the words of the staff who goes to fix the problem.
Q: Does the service provide the timer switches?
A: No, the service only provides monitoring to check whether the timer switches are working correctly.
Q: What is the purpose of monitoring the lights on and off time for hoardings?
A: The purpose is to ensure that the lights are switched on and off at the correct times so that the advertisements on the hoardings are visible at night, and to prevent high electricity bills from prolonged light usage.
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Q: How are the lights on the hoardings switched on and off?
A: The lights are automatically switched on and off using timer switches.
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Q: What happens when the timer switches fail?
A: When the timer switches fail, the lights may not turn on or off at the correct times, causing the advertisements to go unnoticed at night or incurring high electricity bills.
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Q: How is the monitoring system installed in the hoarding electrical circuit?
A: The monitoring system comes in a module that can be easily connected to the hoarding electrical circuit and connected to a central alarm monitoring station via the internet.
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Q: Do the hoarding site need separate internet connectivity?
A: No. The monitoring system comes with an inbuilt GSM SIM connection that provides internet access to the components in the system.
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Q: What does the monitoring system monitor?
A: The monitoring system monitors the light on/off timings, and also checks whether all the lights are functional, and also the electricity main power supply into the hoarding lighting system.
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Q: What happens if there is a power interruption from the electricity supply company or a failure in the hoarding lights?
A: If there is a power interruption from the electricity supply company or a failure in the hoarding lights, the central alarm monitoring company will be notified and take appropriate action to follow up on the issue so that it is promptly rectified.
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Q: Who handles the alerts generated by the monitoring system?
A: The human operator stationed at the alarm monitoring company handles all alerts generated by the monitoring system.
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Q: Who does the alarm monitoring company contact in case of an alarm event?
A: The hoarding company staff who are in charge of the hoardings with failed lights will be contacted by the alarm monitoring company. If the staff does not pick up, the alarm monitoring staff will try again and may escalate the event to higher managers.
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Q: How does the alarm monitoring company close an alarm event?
A: The alarm monitoring company will only close an alarm event when a "restore" signal has been received from the failed device, ensuring that the equipment being monitored is functioning correctly.
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