mardi 11 mars 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.

The benefit of lighting the towns is the fact that they ensure safety of pedestrians. This is because these lights helps one to know what danger is surrounding them, be it from the road, animals or their fellow human beings. Where there are no lights human beings are at a very high risk of problems during because they are unable to recognize people that may want to harm them.

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 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.

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.

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.

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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