Technical Guide for Streetlights and Outdoor Lighting

163 Pages·2015·16.05 MB·English

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The field of municipal street and outdoor lighting has Frank Bodenhaupt · Frank Lindemuth (ed.)
been undergoing significant change for some time now.
Not least the introduction of LED lighting has comple-
tely revitalised the development of new luminaires,
Technical Guide
electronic control gear and components.
for Streetlights and
However, many decision makers with a responsibility for
lighting will find the huge array of products on the mar-
Outdoor Lighting
ket as well as the associated flood of technical data
quite challenging. The only way to assess the numerous
differing claims is to acquire dependable expert
knowledge on the topic. This technical street and out-
door lighting manual is designed to assist users in the
process of obtaining an overview of the current state of
the art.
A select group of lighting industry experts and users of
lighting technology has contributed to this book with
the aim of explaining the complex topic of lighting. It is
designed to support employees of municipal utility com-
panies and energy providers, representatives of town
councils as well as planning and engineering companies
in making decisions regarding current projects.
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Technical Guide for
Streetlights and Outdoor Lighting
editors
Frank Bodenhaupt
and
Frank Lindemuth
EW Medien und Kongresse GmbH
Frankfurt am Main | Berlin | Essen
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Preface by the editors
The task of municipal street lighting includes making a contribution towards tra-f
fc safety on roads during the dark hours of the day. With the aim of increasing
the personal safety of citizens, suffcient street lighting must be provided as a
precautionary measure against criminal assaults. A further goal pursued by the
provision of appropriate street lighting is to increase the attractiveness of and
revitalise inner city areas. In short, street lighting improves the quality of life for
the entire population.
The quest towards greater cost and energy effciency, alongside eco-compati-
bility and a need to reshuffe public spending budgets, no longer needs to stand
in confict with the aims pursued by street lighting. For many years, many town
and rural councils felt forced to reduce street lighting during the night or even
to switch it off altogether due to fnancial constraints – a fact that also mirrors
a sense of powerlessness felt by many councils. Although such measures cer-
tainly helped to reduce public spending for the short term, switching off street
lighting exerts a negative infuence on many areas of society over the long term.
Not only does the risk of accidents increase, but the quality of life and the attrac-
tiveness of a city decline as well.
At the same time, new technologies are gaining ground in the feld of street ligh-t
ing – technologies with which both users and operators have to keep pace. But
the sheer number of such new developments is making it increasingly diffcult to
keep track. The manner in which luminaires, ballasts, control options and energy
supply units work together is becoming ever more complex. Yet the boom in
LED technology is not alone in setting new operational and maintenance-related
standards, since the highly diversifed electronics sector is also making inroads
on the feld of street lighting, be it with management systems or electronic bal-
lasts, sensor technology or databank applications. All of these things are set
to increasingly change the work of street lighting managers, but these new
applications naturally also open up new opportunities for lowering the workload
involved in and thus the cost of providing street lighting. In all of this, the topic
of cost-effectiveness must always be duly taken into account. But how can one
keep abreast of the plethora of products on the market?
More than ever before, street lighting managers are called upon to keep informed
so as to understand all the factors involved. In fact, doing so is vital if such man-
agers are to remain capable of fnding the most cost-effective solution for the
future operation of a street lighting system.
This book intends to make a contribution towards satisfying this extended need
for information, while also focusing attention on key factors. This technical man-
ual on outdoor and street lighting deals with trending topics in the feld of street
lighting and is designed to be an everyday point of reference for users. Numer-
ous specialists and authors have come together in this technical manual to give
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you an overview of the latest knowledge and state of development with regard
to much-discussed topics. These authors offer insight into a world that is char-
acterised by a rapid succession of innovations – all of which need to be under-
stood – and provide their expertise to give you, the reader, the tools to better
understand this new wealth of information.
We, as the editors of this technical manual, owe these authors a huge vote of
thanks for both their willingness to contribute and for accepting the enormous
associated drain on their time. However, we would also like to thank the staff at
the publishing company, without whose assistance it would not have been pos-
sible to produce this book.
Birkenheide/Berlin, July 2015
Frank Bodenhaupt and Frank Lindemuth
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