Social Icons

Pages

samedi 15 mars 2014

Impressive Beauty Of Street Lighting

By Leticia Jensen


Our streets look beautiful and clear at night because of the street lights. Street lighting can be defined as the raised source of light on the edge of the road which is turned on at a certain time every night. It uses high pressure sodium lamps which provide the greatest amount of photopic illumination and ensures there is least consumption of electricity.

Pedestrian's safety is one of the advantages of these lights. The idea being these lights make people to realize what hazard are about to befall them. At night time human beings level of harm raises the reason being it is not easy to identify people with bad motives.

Driver's calamities such as accidents are minimized, simply because they can see well thus enhancing the chance of travelling at night. One is able to view an animal that is approaching when it's far away this has been enabled by the use of these lights. Lives of people are protected as a result of street lights, for instance if an animal is crossing the path the driver is able to see it and avoid hitting it.

In the countryside, individuals can only do most of their tasks in daytime . When the sun rise they start their routine operations of farming and looking after animals as the sunset again they retire to their homes to wait for another day to come. This is directly opposite when it comes to downtown setting where darkness does not affect people's operations at all in fact to them there is no difference between day and night.

Street light poles are made of aluminum and steel this is for the purpose of durability i. E. They can last for a very long period of time. Another reason is because aluminum and steel do not wear easily. Also corrosion resistance and finally poles made of aluminum and steel have that visual appeal.

Light fixtures ought to be chosen to efficiently guide light to the preferred area of the sidewalk and roadway. Light fixtures should enable a variety of light distributions to adapt to different streets and sidewalk configurations while maintaining the same fixture appearance. The distribution type should be selected based on street and sidewalk width.

The lights situated on the sides of the roads where the components will be determined by the amount of illumination required by that path. Then also the light that enables the driver to see pedestrians and vehicles pass and finally those placed on the through-ways used by people are some of the things that are taken into consideration to determine the intensity of lighting required.

Finally the maintenance of street lights are very crucial, this can either be reactive i. E. A direct response to light failure for instance replacing a discharging lamp after it has failed, or replacing the entire unit after it has been hit by a vehicle . Or it can be preventative maintenance which refers to scheduled replacement of lighting components like replacing lamps where they have reached 85% of their expected life.




About the Author:



Aucun commentaire:

Enregistrer un commentaire

 

Sample text

Sample Text

Sample Text

 
Blogger Templates