Beacon by Monolith
Emergency lighting testing for people who still have to find the plant room key. Works without signal, keeps the site logbook alive, and turns the visit into paperwork you can hand over — not rewrite in the van.
Free in open beta · No card · A few minutes to add your first site
For contractors, competent persons, and the folks juggling more than one site.
Sound familiar?
Too many teams still rebuild the visit after they’ve left site. Photos on three phones. A spreadsheet that doesn’t match the wall. That failed lamp disappears into last month’s PDF and never comes back.
Meet Beacon
Same company, same sites, same story. Technicians work in Field on the phone — even underground. Managers see sites, history, team, and certificates on the desktop.
Status
Monthly test
Beacon Console
How it works
Start fresh or bring your fittings across from a spreadsheet. Set the test switches and site IDs once.
Monthly function or a timed annual by test switch — in Field, results as you walk the building.
Issue the visit report or site certificate from what you just did — then catch up when you’re back online.
See it move
A simplified walkthrough of the real Field flow — same screens you’d use on site, no account needed.
Beacon
Northside Estates
Quay Holdings
Riverside Group
14 Quay Lane
Status
Open defects (1)
Site snapshot
July monthly test
EL-012
passStair A
Tap to change result
EL-024
passCorridor B
Tap to change result
EL-018
failPlant room
Lamp fault
Tap to change result
What you get
Offline visits, paperwork from the test, a register that carries forward — not a generic cert form with “emergency lighting” stuck on the side.
01 · Field
Plant rooms and basements don’t care about your signal bars. Keep testing anyway — results stay on the phone and catch up when you’re back upstairs.
12 fittings updated · will send when you’re online
02 · Monthly
Pass or fail each fitting as you go — with notes and photos where you need them. The visit stays on the site, not scattered across phones and scraps of paper.
03 · Annual
Run the discharge for the time the site was designed for, switch by switch — with a timer on each one. Not a hopeful tick from the car park.
04 · Documents
Fitting results, a visit inspection report, or a site certificate — each with its own reference. Once it’s issued and locked, it stays that way. History keeps the trail.
05 · Defects
When something fails, it stays open on the site until it’s fixed or closed properly. Photos travel with it. Paperwork you’ve already issued doesn’t get rewritten to hide the mess.
EL-018 Plant room — lamp failed to strike
EL-031 Car park — battery didn’t last
Sort these before you sign off06 · Register
Point your old logbook columns at rooms, site IDs, switches, and floors. Next month you’re not retyping the building — the register comes with you.
07 · Setup
Responsible person, how long the batteries should last, whether there’s an automatic test system, which switches run the annual. Timers and paperwork then match the building, not a blank form.
Duration 3 hours
Auto test Not fitted
Switches TS-01 · TS-02 · TS-03
Responsible Building Manager
08 · Console
See every site in one place, invite your technicians, check who changed what, and put your company details on the PDFs so the pack looks like it came from you — because it did.
The paperwork
These are the layouts Beacon issues from a visit — proper titles, references, lettered sections, and sign-off. Once you lock a document, it stays as it was signed. No quiet rewrites after you’ve left site.
Want to issue one of these from a real visit?
No card · Free in open beta · Managers welcome
Why Beacon
A straight word
Beacon helps you record the tests and issue the paperwork that goes with proper BS 5266 practice. The duty-holder still owns fire-safety compliance — we’re not pretending otherwise, and this isn’t a BSI product certification.
It’s free in open beta. We’ll tell you about pricing before anything is charged. No quiet lock-in. Your feedback genuinely shapes what we build next — we’re still listening, not coasting.
Got something kind to say? We’re collecting real beta voices — no invented five-star quotes on this page.
FAQ
Yes. Field is built for plant rooms and basements. Keep testing with no bars; when you’re back online, your work catches up. Console is for the office when you’ve got a connection.
Beacon is built around how emergency lighting is actually tested: monthly and annual runs, a proper site register, open defects, visit reports, and periodic certificates. It helps you record the work and issue the paperwork — the duty-holder stays responsible for compliance. It isn’t a BSI product certification.
Field is the phone or tablet app you take on site — testing, defects, and history, even offline. Console is the desktop side for sites, team, history, and certificates across the company. Same world, two jobs.
Yes. Add a site, import your fittings from a spreadsheet, then set test switches and site IDs before the first visit. No need to retype the building from scratch.
No. Open Field in the browser on your phone or tablet and add it to your home screen. Console is just a normal desktop browser. No card needed to start the open beta.
After a visit: a fitting test report and a visit periodic inspection report. For the site: a periodic inspection and testing certificate. Once something is issued and locked, it stays as signed.
Free in open beta. We’ll tell you about pricing before anything is charged — no quiet lock-in.
Your organisation’s data lives securely in Beacon’s cloud. On site, Field can keep the visit on the phone until you’re back online. Details are on the privacy page.
Make an account, add a site, and run a real monthly or annual visit. We’re in open beta — free for now, and we’ll tell you before anything costs money.
No card · A few minutes to add your first site