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26 February 2014

The Impressive Value 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.

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.

When it comes to highways light equipment should be used to explicit light. Those equipment should allow different supply of light on the through-way and the path structures while ensuring that the equipment characteristics still remain unchanged. The width of the path is what is considered when it comes to the amount of light to be supplied.

The lighting level may include roadway lights, placed on the sideways of the roads and their light fixtures are based on the light level and uniformity. Another one is the intersection lights which gives guidance to illuminate pedestrians in the crosswalk to vehicles. And lastly the pedestrian areas such as side walk.

Lastly street lights maintenance has been made successful by the use of two techniques. The first one being the Reactive which is an immediate response to failure in power supply like for instance, when a street light has been damaged by a vehicle the step taken to repair it is reactive. The second technique is preventative and this occurs when may be the product has become obsolete or does not function well may it is seventy five percent way of its life span.




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