When I was down in Austin this year for the South-by-Southwest Interactive festival, we drove around looking at the city's old moon towers. The concept of these old towers is that they were used to augment street lighting, which was made of gas at the time (late 1800's), and could be employed when regular street [...]
Read More Austin, civil and infrastructure, moonlight towers, street light, TexasI wrote a post about induction lamp technology a few days ago – a company called Everlast is producing a solar and wind powered induction lamp street light. PV panels, a turbine, and a 70-100W fluorescent induction source. The system as a whole is pretty sweet – the wind turbine operates at as low as [...]
Read More hybrid, magnetic induction lamp, slar, street light, wind power2,200 lumens at 24 watts with a service life of 75,000 hours – these are the essential numbers of Hei's solar street light design. An LED source is powered by a complex solar collection system – the fixture is sleek, if I may say so myself! The solar collection unit on top is designed to [...]
Read More Hei, Hei Solar Light, Solar, street lightI've seen a lot of research and teasers about LED street lamp technology lately – the Lunar Resonant Street Lamp was one, New York City is also implementing an experimental program for LED street lamps. Lots of them. I guess it's not fair to say just street lamps, because park lighting and other types of [...]
Read More LED street light, Opto Tech, photometric, street lightA company called Dial4Light is giving municipalities the option to put their street lighting on the control of residents' cell phones. Essentially, the street lights stay off until a resident requests them via mobile on a per-street basis. I think I have that right – a person calls a central phone number, requests a particular [...]
Read More dial4light, residential, street lightWater-powered street lights. Water + a little generator + LED street fixture = happy illumination for everyone. Right? Well, we don't know quite yet. Ireland is testing a water-powered lamp for street lighting – just one right now, flanked by two solar-powered LED fixtures. The fixture is powered by a little turbine powered by the [...]
Read More LED, street light, water-poweredNew York City's Department of Transportation is working with the Office for Visual Interaction to create new LED efficient street lamps to replace all of the HPS and Mercury Vaopr lamps that exist currently. The city's cost savings and maintenance hours are all things that are under consideration, with the LEDs having an ultimately longer [...]
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