Anolis Ambiane at the Paris Convention Center

Ambiane luminaires Anoles have been chosen to renew the halogen system of this French auditorium with LED technology, more efficient and flexible for the events held there.

With capacity for 3.723 personas, he Paris Convention Center (France), a multi-space that hosts a wide range of national and international events and shows, has recently changed the halogen lighting in its auditorium to Led technology as part of a renovation process.

Coordinated by the company viparis, in collaboration with the French lighting design agency Lyum, The auditorium now has about four hundred LED luminaires from the range Ambiane of Anoles, installed by Eiffage Energy Systems.

Since its installation, These Led luminaires have significantly reduced energy consumption that until now the audience had. Anolis Ambiane offer various beam angles and have various accessories, like grilles, to precisely adjust light output and adapt it exactly to the requirements of the room.

In addition to energy efficiency, The change to LED lighting in the auditorium has also had other objectives, how to strengthen corporate social responsibility (RSC), improve the audience experience and unlock the room's potential to be more interactive, with a system that can connect to production lighting of the shows on stage.

The installation was not easy, since the irregular topography of the roof causes the heights to oscillate between 3 and the 18 metros. Another challenge has been finding light sources with the exact diameters that the ancient pair 56 y BY 30 to avoid new holes in the room.

One of the first tests was to check if the management could detect the new lights (compared to halogens) in terms of power or appearance, and Anolis Ambiane was the only model that achieved it, thanks to your subtle RGBW color mixing.

The lighting project manager, Sylvain Bigot, created a 3D model of the auditorium with the software DIALux to emulate what the ceiling light above the audience would look like with the new Led luminaires placed a few 2 meters away.

The stalls are covered by 92 Ambiane XP56 of 150 W with 20° recessed lenses. Other installations have been installed in the corridors between the stage and the first level. 32 units, in this case also with 5° grids, while in the hallways on the first level there are 46 Ambiane HP111 of 75 W with 60° recessed lenses.

The seats located above the first level have 112 Ambiane XP56 150 W, and in the corridors between the first and second levels they have been installed 72 units of this same model with 20° recessed lenses. The last rows of seats are illuminated with 42 Ambiane HP111 with 60° lenses.

Ambiane XP56 luminaires operate via remote power supplies with the projector hanging on the metal ceiling of the auditorium. “Having Anolis luminaires allowed us to choose the exact color we wanted, and it was very precise -Bigot emphasizes-. Besides, they offered a smooth and completely linear regulation of 0 a 5%, and included to 2% there was a small glow. Achieving that with an LED source is simply beautiful”.

Built-in macros allow 2.700 K, 3.200 K and a progressive CTO, “so you can really recover true halogen-type nuances and textures”, they explain from Lyum, who has designed and programmed some fifteen preset lighting scenarios for the audience, which can be easily accessed from a touch tablet controller Pharos TPC.

And sistema LPCX of Pharos, composed of ten DMX universes, manages the lighting of the room through the existing fiber network in the premises, con 5.120 DMX channels dedicated to auditorium ceiling lighting, which can also be connected to the production.