Friday, March 7, 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.

Lighting our towns is important as it helps in ensuring pedestrian safety. Pedestrians' lights make it easier to see dangers around you, whether from traffic, people or animals. People are likely in a probability to be victimized if they are not indoors at night since they cannot know if a person is waiting nearby, waiting to accost them, for criminals they will think twice.

Immense lighting has shown great efficiency in terms of driver's accident. This is because visibility is enhanced and therefore the safety of the road is modified making it possible for night traveling. These lights can help visualize an animal from a distance that is maybe at the center of the road and if the operator sees this he can evade to accidents. They help protect both the lives of the driver and the animal thus preventing road calamities.

In rural areas, people's schedules are dictated by the times of the sun; they wake up when the sun rises to do farm work and they go to bed when the sun falls. This is, to put it simply, bad for business. But people might be lured into coming out at night for everything from shopping to watching a dramatic piece if the theater has ample lighting. A dark place looks unfavorable; a place with ample lighting looks special and inviting, so these lights might be good for business.

The light poles appear to be very beautiful and appealing to the eyes. They do not also react with water easily thus cannot rust, these poles also have an everlasting life and their value will always appreciate. Those characteristics have been made possible by the use of aluminum and steel to produce the poles.

In pathway lights, the devices are supposed to produce sufficient light by supplying light in various forms the characteristics of the equipment should not be tempered with at all. When it comes to amount of light distribution this will be based upon how large the road is in terms of its breath.

The extent of the street lights could entail; the through-way lights located alongside the road where light devices used depends with the levels of light required. Followed by the intersection light which provide directions to light up people walking on foot while vehicles are crossing over the roads and lastly the pedestrian locality for instance alongside the paths of the estates.

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.




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