Australian emergency lighting specialist known for L10 lithium battery technology, the Zoneworks XT HIVE wireless monitored system and the CleverSparky testing app.
Clevertronics was founded in Melbourne in 2001 and has grown into one of the largest dedicated emergency lighting manufacturers in the Australian market, with a New Zealand operation and a UK business taking the same platform into export markets. Its positioning is unambiguous: a specialist that competes on lifecycle cost — battery longevity, test automation and local support — rather than on being one line item in a broad electrical catalogue.
That lifecycle argument matters because emergency lighting is one of the few building services where the mandatory maintenance regime (six-monthly discharge testing under AS/NZS 2293.2) is more expensive over ten years than the hardware itself. Every element of the Clevertronics platform — lithium batteries, self-test electronics, wireless monitoring, the CleverSparky records app — exists to shrink one part of that recurring cost.
| Category | Clevertronics offering |
|---|---|
| Exit signs | Slimline LED exits including the Ultrablade family; surface, recessed, wall and ceiling mounts; single- and double-sided |
| Emergency downlights | Compact recessed “spitfire” style emergency luminaires for ceilings and corridors |
| Battens & area lighting | Emergency LED battens and oysters for back-of-house, plant and car-park areas |
| Weatherproof & industrial | IP-rated weatherproof fittings, high-bay emergency luminaires and floodlights for industrial and external egress paths |
| Battery platform | L10 Nanophosphate lithium iron phosphate across the core range |
| Monitored system | Zoneworks XT HIVE wireless RF-mesh monitoring and automated testing |
| Self-test management | CleverSparky cloud app for standalone self-test fittings |
| Configurations | Maintained, non-maintained and combined variants across the ranges |
Traditional self-contained emergency fittings run on nickel-cadmium (and later nickel-metal-hydride) batteries with a practical service life of a few years in the elevated temperatures inside a luminaire. Because AS 2293.2 requires each fitting to survive a full-duration discharge test every six months, tired batteries are found — and replaced — constantly. Across a large building, battery replacement labour and parts typically dwarf the original supply cost of the fittings.
Clevertronics attacked this directly by standardising on lithium iron phosphate chemistry, branded L10 Nanophosphate, engineered for a design life in the order of ten years — several battery generations in NiCd terms. The practical consequences for contractors: far fewer battery change-outs across a service contract, fewer failed discharge tests, and a total-cost-of-ownership argument that is easy to put to a building owner in dollars. As always, verify the current warranty terms for the specific range being quoted.
Zoneworks XT HIVE is Clevertronics’ wireless monitored emergency lighting platform, and the top of its test-automation stack. Fittings communicate over an RF mesh network — no dedicated test wiring — and the system schedules and runs the AS 2293.2 discharge tests automatically, logs every fitting’s result, and reports failures by exception so a technician only visits the fittings that need work.
For large or distributed portfolios (shopping centres, campuses, logistics estates, aged-care groups) this changes the economics of compliance: the six-monthly test cycle becomes a report review plus a targeted rectification visit, rather than a walk of every corridor with a test key. The system’s records also double as the compliance evidence for essential-safety-measure reporting.
Between fully manual fittings and a monitored system sits the self-test tier: fittings with on-board electronics that run their own discharge tests and show pass/fail on an indicator LED. Self-test removes the switching labour but not the record-keeping — someone still has to walk the site, read the indicators, log the results and schedule rectification.
CleverSparky is Clevertronics’ free cloud app for exactly that job: a per-site register of fittings, test results recorded against each fitting with dates, fault flags, and due-date visibility across sites. For electrical contractors servicing many small-to-medium buildings, it is effectively a purpose-built emergency lighting logbook — through field-service platforms like traqR, the same records can live alongside the rest of the site’s compliance assets.
Clevertronics fittings appear across the full spectrum of Australian buildings — commercial towers, retail, industrial sheds, health and aged care, education and multi-residential common areas. The Zoneworks XT HIVE system is strongest where scale or distance makes manual testing expensive; the L10 battery platform is a straightforward upgrade argument on any building still cycling through NiCd batteries.
Its defining strengths are specialisation (emergency lighting is the whole business), the L10 lithium battery platform and its lifecycle-cost pitch, the Zoneworks XT HIVE wireless monitored system, the CleverSparky app for self-test fleets, and Australian manufacturing and support. The main consideration when specifying is channel familiarity: monitored-system projects are best engaged with Clevertronics early, and like-for-like battery/warranty claims should always be verified against the current datasheet.
Yes — Clevertronics is an Australian emergency lighting specialist headquartered in Melbourne, with local manufacturing and support plus operations in New Zealand and the UK. Emergency and exit lighting is its sole focus.
Clevertronics’ lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) battery platform, used across most of its range in place of traditional nickel-cadmium batteries. It is engineered for a design life in the order of ten years, which dramatically reduces the battery replacements that dominate emergency lighting maintenance budgets.
Clevertronics’ wireless monitored emergency lighting system. Fittings form an RF mesh network that runs the AS 2293.2 discharge tests automatically, reports failures by exception, and produces building-wide compliance records — removing the manual switch-and-walk test cycle.
Yes. Self-test fittings automate the discharge test itself, but AS 2293.2 still requires the results to be checked and recorded, failed fittings rectified, and the physical condition of fittings inspected. The CleverSparky app is Clevertronics’ tool for keeping those records.
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