The Lighting Efficiency Blog

  Industrial LED Lighting

The Importance of CRI and CCT in Industrial LED Lighting Applications

Thanks to advances in semiconductors, optics, materials, and manufacturing, LEDs have progressed in light output, energy efficiency, cost effectiveness, ruggedness, and color options. As a result, LED applications have grown exponentially, and fixtures are now available for industrial lighting applications, expediting the phase out of metal halide and high pressure sodium lamps. LED is quickly becoming the dominant technology for all kinds of industrial and commercial lighting applications. Several key factors have driven uptake in these environments.

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  High Mast Lighting

Benefits of Switching from HID to LED High Mast Lighting

In the past, high-intensity discharge (HID) lamps were the standard used by companies that needed illumination over a wide target area. This type of lamp came with several drawbacks that were eventually addressed with the introduction of LEDs. The promise of clean, energy efficient illumination with minimal maintenance has forced some businesses to rethink their lighting technology of choice for industrial towers.

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  Fluorescent Replacement Lighting

Disrupting a Disruptive Technology – LED vs. CFL

It wasn’t that long ago that compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) were considered the future of both residential and commercial lighting. And for a little while that assumption held some water. They saved significant energy compared to incandescent lamps, they fit in many existing fixtures, and their longer life were all very strong points in their favor.

But times change and, when it comes to technology, change quickly. The fame and future of CFLs came quickly and left even quicker.

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  Industrial Lighting

Metal Halide Lights – In Memoriam

Metal halide lights have been the de facto standard for illumination of outdoor and large indoor spaces for more than fifty years. As that technology has aged, however, building owners and facility managers are seeing its drawbacks. An industry shift to LED lighting systems has increased in the last few years as an understanding that these systems provide more effective illumination, lower maintenance needs and costs, and smaller energy bills.

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  Sports Lighting

LED Sports Lighting is Changing the Way We See Games

Sports fans might notice some of the changes that are happening in the outdoor stadiums and fields where their favorite teams compete. Older metal halide and high-pressure sodium lighting fixtures in those facilities are being retired in favor of LED sports field lighting. Fans are even starting see LED lighting in the home stadiums of some NFL teams. While the NFL might be the highest-profile place you’ll find LEDs; universities, high schools, and really any public outdoor sports field are jumping on the LED train. When the advantages of LED’s over traditional outdoor sports lighting are considered, it is easy to understand why LED sports lighting is the winner.

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  Flood Lighting

Property Managers Benefit from Commercial LED Flood Lights

Commercial outdoor LED floodlight fixtures are quickly becoming widely used across industrial and commercial facilities including warehouses, security perimeters, as well as stadiums for enhanced sports lighting. Even though floodlights are available in other forms with older lighting technologies like high intensity dischare (HID) LEDs are simply a better option, for a variety of reasons.

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  Commercial Lighting

Why Choose LED for Exterior Commercial Lighting Fixtures

LED’s are rapidly becoming the standard choice for exterior commercial lighting fixtures, in part due to their superior durability and versatility, making them ideal for exterior commercial settings. Loading docks, storage yards, and other outdoor commercial environments can operate around the clock with heavy loading machinery and activities that expose commercial lighting to shocks and impacts that can easily damage traditional high-pressure sodium or halogen fixtures. Exterior LED lights include solid state components that are less susceptible to damage from shocks and vibrations. If an LED fixture does experience some damage, the modular nature of many LED lighting systems facilitates easy replacement of a single unit without affecting other fixtures in an exterior commercial lighting array.

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  Industrial LED Lighting

Savings, Safety, and Productivity – Why Choose Industrial LED Lighting

In today’s fast-paced industrial environment, it’s sometimes difficult to stop for a moment and look around and really see the state of your facility. Insufficient lighting can be detrimental to an industrial facility: slower picking times for warehouse or missed quality inspections in a manufacturing cell are just two general examples. The most crucial is safety hazards to employees. Everyone should leave work the same way they arrived and the lighting system should never be the reason for an on-the-job injury. While many facility managers may know they need to improve, often times they don’t know where or when to start.

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  LED Indoor Lighting

Guide to Indoor LED Lighting

Indoor LED lighting provides a clear advantage over conventional lighting solutions and can free up significant time and resources for building owners, facility managers and other stakeholders by requiring less maintenance time and materials. They also benefit occupants of the building by providing higher quality lighting and help to drive down a building or facility’s overhead costs. In this post, we’ll be looking at three types of interior LED lighting that your company should consider.

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  Outdoor Lighting

Guide to Outdoor LED Lights

LED lighting is fast becoming the best solution for a wide variety of outdoor lighting applications. The reasons are simple: LEDs are the most energy efficient lighting on the market by far, they have the longest lifespan (and associated product warranties) by 2-10 times over the nearest competing technology, and they produce a very high-quality light with a wide range of color characteristics. They are small, steady-state lights which means they don’t present the breaking or recycling issues common with legacy lighting technology. Perhaps the only downside is that they’re not the cheapest technology on the market. That said, the price continues to come down and a smart investor will recognize right away that the energy savings and a lifespan that could be an order of magnitude (10 times) longer than a traditional bulb is easily worth the investment. You get what you pay for after all.

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