How PlanScanAI helps
Whether you’re doing scheme design, specification or compliance review, lighting drawings are symbol-heavy and easy to misread. PlanScanAI knows the conventions — downlights, pendants, uplights, feature strips, emergency bulkheads — and pulls every fitting into a clean, exportable schedule.
Choose ‘Lighting Design’ as your trade and run a Guided Scan targeting luminaire types, control zones or emergency lighting coverage. Cross-reference against the lux calculations and you’ve got a quality-assured design review in minutes, not hours.
What PlanScanAI extracts from lighting drawings
Tuned for architectural and specialist lighting conventions used in UK practice.
- Luminaire types — downlights, pendants, uplights, linear, feature, cove
- Luminaire references linked to specification schedules
- Emergency luminaires — maintained, non-maintained, self-contained, central-battery
- Exit signage with mounting types
- Lighting control zones and switching arrangements
- DALI addresses and scene presets
- Sensor types — PIR, microwave, daylight sensors
- External and amenity lighting fittings
- Accent, decorative and display lighting installations
- Mounting heights and IP ratings from schedules
- Lux calculation reference points and working planes
- Pole, bollard and recessed ground lighting for external areas
Why lighting designers choose PlanScanAI
- Cut schedule QA time on large retail, office and hospitality schemes.
- Verify emergency lighting coverage against BS 5266 in one pass.
- Faster tender returns with AI-verified luminaire counts.
- Catch sheet inconsistencies where schedules and plans diverge.
- Works with marked-up revisions and hand-annotated PDFs.
Ready to try it?
PlanScanAI is currently in public beta with early-adopter pricing locked in for life. Start with a free trial — five scans, every feature unlocked, no card required. See the AI run on your own drawings and decide from there.