Lighting controls commissioning
Addressable and DALI lighting, scenes and zones set up, proven and tuned — from a handful of luminaires to thousands across a site.
Lighting & Controls Commissioning
Lighting, emergency and control systems — commissioned, integrated, and signed off clean.
Seven years commissioning lighting controls, emergency & central-battery systems, and the integration that ties them into a building's BMS — on some of the UK's most demanding sites. Point-to-point on site, data flowing to the dashboard by handover.
ProtocolsBACnet/IPMQTTModbusDALIEmergency & central batteryEnvironmental sensing
How we tie it together
Field systems
Lighting · DALI
Emergency · CBS
Sensors · occupancy
TPS505
Commissioning,
integration & interpreters
BACnet/IPMQTTModbus
Building systems
BMS / management
HVAC
Live dashboards
Field kit that won't normally talk — made to speak to the building's systems.
7 yrsCommissioning experience
25+Blue-chip end clients
9,000+Luminaires commissioned
750+Points integrated to BMS
End clients on projects delivered
A UK central bankBritish AirwaysPfizerAmazonSiemensEurotunnelAirbusHS2Peel PortsOffice for National StatisticsCambridge UniversityNHSPwCFordDefraStarbucks& more
What we do
Lighting and controls, commissioned and integrated end-to-end.
Field commissioning is the core. The difference is what comes after — getting those systems talking to the BMS, and to each other.
Emergency & central battery systems
Central battery units and controllers commissioned and witnessed, emergency lighting proven and documented to the standards inspectors expect.
Commissioning & witnessing
Point-to-point I/O, functional testing and client/CxA witnessing through to a clean, signed handover the whole team can stand behind.
BMS & systems integration
Getting lighting, power and sensors onto the building's network — BACnet/IP, MQTT and Modbus — with objects mapped and data landing where it should.
Environmental sensing & data
Sensor hardware specified, rolled out and commissioned to feed lighting control and live data back into existing dashboards.
Custom interpreters & tooling
When off-the-shelf won't talk, we write the bridge — like the custom interpreter that put 400 points onto a UK central bank's BMS. Our own tool, Nodex, runs BACnet discovery on site in minutes.
Make it pay
The hard part isn't connecting it — it's knowing what to do with it.
Integration projects often stall right here: the systems are finally talking, and then — what? We've seen it enough to get you ahead of it. We consult on the uses: where the data saves you money, streamlines the building, and takes work off your team.
Find the savings
Occupancy, scheduling and metering data pointed at the biggest energy and running-cost wins — like sharing lighting occupancy with HVAC at Levanger.
Streamline the building
Fewer manual checks and callouts. Let the systems and dashboards do the watching, so your team spends time on the things that need a human.
Connect what earns its keep
Not everything needs integrating. We help you spend the effort where it pays back — and skip what won't — so the budget goes on wins, not wiring for its own sake.
Selected work
Proven on high-profile, high-stakes sites.
Integrated 400 end points into the bank's BMS through a custom interpreter we built to bridge kit that wouldn't otherwise talk.
400Points integrated
CustomInterpreter built
Commissioned 10 central battery backup units and controllers across 10 locations, linking lighting controls and backup power to work together — plus 9,000 luminaires in the automated cargo handling centre.
9,000Luminaires
10CBU systems
10Locations
Designed, rolled out and commissioned two generations of environmental sensors, linking them into the lighting controls and feeding data back to existing dashboards.
2Sensor revisions
LiveDashboard feed
Fed lighting occupancy data to the HVAC system over BACnet, so heating and ventilation follow real presence, not a timer. The HVAC energy it saved came to 140% of the lighting's own consumption — the sensors saved more energy than the lights they controlled ever used.
140%of lighting load, saved in HVAC
Occupancy → HVACover BACnet
Commissioned 350 points into the municipal management system for an assisted-living scheme, setting up data conversion across MQTT and BACnet/IP so two worlds could speak.
350Points
MQTT ⇄ BACnetConversion
How a job runs
A commissioning sequence that survives contact with a live site.
01
Survey & readiness
Walk the site, confirm the install is complete, and flag what isn't ready before the clock starts.
02
Pre-commissioning checks
Wiring integrity, addressing, sensor calibration and life-safety functions proven before anything runs in anger.
03
Point-to-point I/O
Every input and output driven and verified field-to-head-end, logged against the points schedule.
04
Integration & data
Systems mapped onto the BMS over BACnet/MQTT/Modbus, with data proven all the way to the dashboard.
05
Witnessing & handover
Client or CxA witnessing, snag close-out, and a clean sign-off.
06
O&M docs & as-builts
Test records, marked-up drawings and O&M pack handed over — so day one runs as smoothly as the handover.
Standards & compliance
We work hand-in-hand with the luminaire and controls manufacturers and the lighting designers — so the finished building meets its British Standards, with emergency lighting commissioned to BS 5266.
BS 5266 · emergency lightingManufacturer sign-offPublic liability insured
Ongoing & aftercare
We don't disappear at sign-off. Because we build the monitoring tools ourselves, we can keep systems commissioned — and saving — long after handover.
- Remote monitoring & support
- Retro-commissioning & energy audits
- Maintenance & aftercare
Our own hardware & products
We design and build connected IoT hardware too — sensors and devices under our Nodex Devices brand, from the same lab that sharpens our commissioning work. We also make our own apps and tools.
The engineer
7years on live commissioning
Seven years in lighting controls and building systems, delivering for and alongside industry names including LiteIP, Glamox, Dextra Group, Auracom, Wirefield and Hazlight — on sites for some of the most demanding clients in the country.
DALIBACnet/IPMQTTModbusEmergency lightingCentral batteryEnvironmental sensing
- Engineer-led, not a body-shop. The person quoting the job is the person on your site.
- Integration is the hard part — and our strong suit. Getting lighting, power and sensors to speak to the BMS is where projects usually stall. It's where we start.
- We write the bridge when there isn't one. Custom interpreters and data conversion (MQTT ⇄ BACnet) when off-the-shelf kit won't talk.
- Documentation that passes first time. Test records, as-builts and O&M packs that inspectors and clients accept.
Why TPS505
A commissioning engineer who also writes the software.
Most commissioning engineers use whatever tools they're handed. We build ours — which is why, when a UK central bank needed 400 points on a BMS that wouldn't accept them, the answer was a custom interpreter, not a shrug. Field experience and a software lab, in one pair of hands.
Talk to usWhere we work
Sectors where getting it wrong isn't an option.
Government & financeAviation & transportPharma & food productionPorts & logisticsEducation & researchRetail & housing
Get in touch
Got a site that needs commissioning?
Tell us the systems, the sector and the programme — we'll tell you straight whether we're the right fit and what it takes to sign it off clean.
Emailhello@tps505.com·CoverageUK-wide & international·InsuredPublic liability