Sparks Electrical News May 2020

LIGHTING

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Google is developing a feature to show brightly lit streets on Maps

I t seems Google is working on a feature for Maps to highlight brightly lit streets at night. The new functionality – dubbed ‘Lighting’ – aims to make night time travels safer by helping users avoid streets with poor or no lighting. Well-lit streets will be marked in yellow, according to code hidden inside Maps beta release (v10.31.0). Unfortunately, there are no images of the feature in action, as it is still under development. There is also no telling if the feature will be available worldwide, or limited strictly to specific regions. Another missing piece of information is how Google intends to source street lighting data, or keep the service up-to-date. This is not the first time Google has rolled out features designed to make it safer for users to navigate away from trouble. A couple of years back, the company embedded SOS Alerts straight into Maps in order to steer users away from natural disasters. In June 2019, Maps introduced a 'Stay Safer' feature in India which notified users if their driver had strayed away from the expected route.

The easy to configure DALI-2 lighting solution

New dimensions of well-being with hospitality lighting solutions

L ighting for the hospitality sector is much more than a necessary technical in- stallation. It functions also as a design element and is an important element for the well-being of guests and employees. The wide range of hospitality lighting solutions help ho- teliers and caterers to present hospitality in its best light and to adapt perfectly to the needs of their guests. Elegant and representative with the LED strip system, stylishly accentuated with the LED spotlights or cosy and intimate with Vintage Edition 1906 lamps and luminaires – better light welcomes people and invites them to linger. Energy efficiency, simple installation and low maintenance requirements contribute to a particularly economical use. The Ledvance product family of LED spot- lights provides functional and flexible lighting and sets design accents in hotel rooms, res- taurants, lobbies and ancillary areas like cor- ridors, elevators and car parks. The small flex- ible recessed spotlights come in minimalist styling and provide great flexibility in lighting design – they can be realigned as required. The Tracklight Spot and Tracklight Spot Com- pact can be freely positioned along the power rail to create highlights in bars or restaurants and are further ideal for high-quality room layouts through aesthetic SCALE design. The tiny shaped Tracklight Spot Compact comes in attractive colour schemes. Together with its seamless design, thanks to the in-track driver, it fits into every ambitious interior. The Led- vance Spot Square Darklight Adjust is also designed to match the Spot-, Down- and Tracklight family of luminaires, and its cut-off angle ensures comfortable interior lighting in hotel rooms, but also shops and boutiques, even with its modern square-shape and the small frame. An external driver provides ex- tended flexibility. Creative lighting design in any shape with the LED strip system The Ledvance LED strip system covers a wide Effectful accent lighting with LED spotlights

range of professional lighting tasks in hospital- ity areas and ensures even more flexible light- ing solutions for ambience and general lighting. For example, the strips can easily be integrated into the architecture and subtly enhance a hotel room. In addition to the LED strips, the portfolio includes an extensive range of LED drivers, profiles for surface or recessed installa- tion, covers and other accessories. With a wide range of available colour temperatures ranging from energising, daylight white 6 500 kelvin to warm white 2 700 kelvin and lumen packages from 300 to 2 000 lumens per metre, the LED strips are suitable for virtually any lighting task in a modern lighting concept – includ- ing classic general lighting, ambient lighting and indirect lighting of niches and coves. The TÜV-certified strips in the Superior category are particularly suitable for demanding lighting installations in large, representative buildings, like upmarket hotels, amongst others, because of their impressive colour rendering with a col- our rendering index (CRI) of over 90 and an extremely long lifetime of up to 60 000 hours. All LED strips are prewired on both sides and can be shortened easily and flexibly if required. Vintage LED lamps and luminaires from Ledvance are atmospheric, subtle, aesthetic and create special settings in hospitality ar- eas. The Vintage Edition 1906 brings new life into historic shapes of lamps and luminaires and combines high-quality retro design with efficient LED lighting technology. The atmospheric, discreet light is perfect for ho- tel rooms where guests can wind down and relax. In hotel bathrooms, for example, the retro luminaires set stylish lighting accents – installed as mirror lighting, the Globe LED lamps with PenduLum Pro bases are retro eye-catchers. With energy savings of up to 80% compared with conventional technolo- gies the vintage LED lamps also ensure cost effectiveness. Retro is modern: innovative LED technology in special shapes

T he TwinCAT 3 Lighting Solution, which is easy and convenient to configure via Excel files, simplifies all work steps, from engineering to maintenance. All typical lighting controls are integrated in the system, and the number of DALI lines is unlimited. Fast functional changes, address changes, system expansions or cross- DALI line groupings can be carried out without interrup- tions to operations. In addition, daylight-dependent human centric lighting concepts can also be implemented. With the addition of the TwinCAT 3 Lighting Solution (TF8050), Beckhoff has extended its product range for the automation of commercial and public buildings with a DALI-2 lighting control system. The solution can be used to suit every lighting situation whether in large office buildings or production halls. It includes a comprehensive, complete range of functions, and consistent simplification of all work steps and control options. Moreover, the TwinCAT 3 Lighting Solution is fully web and HTML- capable, is de-centrally scalable and can be operated conveniently via panels and mobile end devices such as tablets, for example. The broad range of applications includes motion and presence dependent lighting control, daylight-dependent T he National Lighting Bureau (NLB), through its mem- bers, is offering free LED lights for the remote sites being set up across the U.S. to test for the corona- virus. The Bureau provides its services to the public free of charge with the funding of the organisation’s sponsors, which include individuals, professional societies, trade associations, labour unions, manufacturers, and agencies of the U.S. gov- ernment. The participating associates include: • BIOS Lighting • Finelite • GE Current, a Daintree Company • Healthe by Lighting Science • Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) • Imperial Lighting Maintenance Company • Inspired LED • interNational Association of Lighting Management Companies (NALMCO) • International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)

lighting control, management of lighting scenarios and control of dynamic light sequences based on the natural course of daylight for Human Centric Lighting (HCL) concepts. In addition, monitoring of energy and status data can be used for optional location-independent data analysis, while engineering is simplified considerably as there is no restriction on the number of DALI lines, cross-DALI line groupings can be carried out and all typical lighting controls are available. The TwinCAT 3 Lighting Solution supports the implementation of HCL in particular through the integrated colour temperature setting function, freely adjustable colour temperature and dimming function curves, lighting control via start/stop time or sunrise/sunset, and compliance with the DALI DT8 standard. The lighting solution is easy to use through modular and conveniently scalable hardware options. As a fully configured plug-and-play version, the solution includes either a 7-inch multitouch CP6606 or CP6706 Panel PC or a CX51x0 or CX9020 Embedded PC. In addition, the I/O level with Bus Couplers and Bus Terminals can be easily adapted to individual application requirements.

Enquiries: www.beckhoff.co.za/lighting-solution

Lighting companies sponsor free LED lights for Coronavirus remote site testing

• Kurtzon Lighting • Ledvance

• Lighting Controls Association (LCA) • Lutron Electronics Company, Inc.

• National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) • National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) • New Star Lighting • Pompeo Group • QSSI • Truly Green Solutions • Universal Lighting Technologies • U.S. General Services Administration • ZLED Lighting Ray Kasmark, NLB Chairman, said, “We believe that quality lighting inside of the tents will increase throughput while im- proving safety and comfort during the testing process.”

Enquiries: www.ledvance.com

Enquiries: www.nlb.org

SPARKS ELECTRICAL NEWS

MAY 2020