Outdoor lighting should be organized according to specific requirements. Reliability, safety of operation and durability are the main features that an LED street lighting fixture must meet. In addition, lighting for outdoor lighting should be aesthetically pleasing. Consider what modern streetlights are.
Key Features
LED equipment for outdoor lighting should be:
- As much as possible protected from aggressive influences and natural factors in the form of moisture, dust, sudden changes in temperature.
- Luminaires must have a safety index of at least IP 44.
- When choosing equipment, the calculation of voltage plays an important role.
- The LED street lighting fixture can be used both for full illumination of the street, park, suburban area, and for highlighting stairs, shrubs, trees.
Popular views
Street lighting devices are classified according to several criteria:
- Style. Most of the equipment is made in classic, oriental, ethnic or modern styles.
- The number of shades. It may be one, but often designs are supplemented by several shades at once.
- LED street lighting fixture can have any form;
- Installation method: modern lighting equipment can be floor, pendant, built-in or wall.
What is the light source?
As a source of illumination in modern lighting equipment for outdoor installation can be different means. Consider the lighting sources that modern streetlights are equipped with:
- incandescent lamps: for outdoor use this is not the most convenient option, as it consumes too much energy;
- energy-saving lamps last for a long time and allow saving on energy;
- LED lamps most often equip street LED lamps and spotlights. They are economical, durable in operation, and also allow you to create various decorative effects.
Floor lamps
Lanterns of this type are a classic solution, which is a rack supplemented with a ceiling, with the ceiling located on top. These devices are presented in a wide variety of design solutions that fit into the trends of a wide variety of styles. In them, the light flux is directed only upwards, so you should not install them in small areas. Floor LED street lamps and spotlights are used in the lighting of parks, alleys, and the local area.
Wall mounted
Wall street lamps are presented in numerous non-standard variations, which allows you to give personality to the surrounding landscape. They can be used to illuminate a large area or to emphasize garden paths and other areas. Wall allows you to transform the surrounding space. From the design point of view, the LED street lighting fixture is a ceiling with fittings and a bracket that secures the device to the wall.
Outboard
Pendant lights look like a room chandelier, which adapts to the aggressive effects of the external environment. These designs are most often mounted on a chain. Their main task is to perform decorative lighting of the facade or the adjacent territory. Design fixtures in different styles look especially impressive, which allow you to focus on the architectural ensemble of the suburban area. They are made of high-strength moisture-proof glass and are resistant to corrosion. LED pendant lights power is not the highest. Thanks to interesting design solutions, they are used to decorate verandas and any other open areas.
Unpaved
Ground luminaires are equipment that is mounted directly into the ground: asphalt, concrete, tile. The use of this type is advisable in home gardens and garden areas, city parks, pedestrian zones and sidewalks, as well as architectural structures, monuments, squares.
The modern ground lamp LED street lighting is used to decorate the space more often, since it does not heat up, therefore it is absolutely safe for children and animals. Installation is carried out when laying a road or lawn pavement. Sidewalk lamps are an opportunity to circle a contour of garden paths and to highlight it.
Recessed
This type of street lighting equipment is good because it is not visible during the day, and at night it allows you to create an original light accent. This type is widely used in soil illumination of trees, billboards, stairs, fences, passages and retaining walls. Recessed luminaires can be mounted in public buildings and structures, manufacturing enterprises, office and administrative premises. When choosing LED industrial lights, you need to consider high humidity, harsh temperature conditions, dustiness and the presence of vibration in the workplace.
For industrial purposes
Industrial lighting equipment should be selected so that there are no glasses in the LED itself. Depending on the direction of the light, such devices do not need to install a diffuser. The directed light stream allows to solve a problem with light pollution in a timely manner. Note that industrial LED lights should be selected in accordance with higher requirements.
Cantilever
In street lighting, console lights are widely used. Such devices are attached to a lighting support or wall on the console, so they are most often needed for the design of roads, gas stations or open areas. Aluminum or steel is used to make the cases, and light sources are hidden under tempered glass or a diffuser made of polycarbonate. This solution provides reliable protection against climatic and mechanical influences. LED cantilever street lighting fixtures are supplemented by high-pressure mercury lamps, sodium or LEDs. The peculiarity of this lighting equipment is high energy efficiency, durability, lack of ripple.
In the field of housing and communal services, equipment is used, made of reliable materials and protected by special means. To monitor the status of the device, built-in motion sensors are used. The LED lamp with a sensor quickly responds to the movement of objects, which turns the light device on or off. These devices are good in that they can be used in any climatic conditions, while flicker or pulsation of the light flux is not observed.
How to calculate?
To reduce the cost of lighting, you need to competently approach the choice of equipment. And this means that you need to take into account the requirements of the norms, the area of the space under which a certain number of fixtures is selected. A competent calculation of street lighting with LED lamps will provide a high-quality luminous flux taking into account various characteristics.