How to Choose Suitable Street Light System for Your Area?

The rapid development of cities and rural areas has promoted the development of street lighting. These days, street lights can be seen almost everywhere, which not only provide people with safety at night, but also beautify the environment.

There are so many street lamp brands and products in the market that it is difficult to choose. In fact, when buying street lights, we need to consider many factors, following factors are more important.

1. Where to use street lights?

Before buying street lights, we need to know where we are going to use the street lights, such as on highways, streets, sidewalls, parks etc., because different type roads have different requirements for street lights.

2. How much lighting is enough?

Light quality decides the difference of illumination, which has a dramatic effect upon the appearance and safety of the street at night. On the other hand, light quality is also influenced by quantity of light -- or more specifically, by the relationship between the brightness of a light and one's distance from it. Light becomes more diffuse farther away from the source, so for a given brightness, there is a range of heights within which the source should be located to create the desired quality of light. For these aspect, height of the luminaire, type and wattage are needed consideration.

3. How far apart should lights be spaced?

In addition to considering the height of the light source, the appropriate spacing of the luminaires should also be considered, which is essential to obtain consistent street and sidewalk lighting and prevent pedestrians from encountering dark intervals. The minimum required space between the lights depends on the nature of the road. When the construction distance between the lights is determined, the appropriate lamps can be selected.

4. Are there secondary functions for light poles?

With the advocacy of smart cities, smart street lights have become an important carrier for the construction of smart cities. Therefore, we must consider whether to apply smart street lights to achieve multiple functions such as environmental monitoring, weather detection, traffic detection, WIFI applications, etc.

Solar street light would be a good choice

Recently, solar street light has been loved by lots of consumers. These lights use solar energy to generate electricity, which is energy-saving and environmentally friendly.

There are many advantages of solar street lights:

• Energy saving and environmental protection: Solar street lights are energy-saving and environmentally friendly products, which not only beautify the environment and form a beautiful landscape, but also meets the need of "green lighting" and can better guide people's awareness of energy saving.

  
  

• Simple construction: The construction of traditional city circuit lights is more complicated, which need to bury cables, causing large amount of work; while solar street lights are much more convenient in construction than city circuit lights, only need to dig a hole to build light pole, no need to lay the line; Solar street lights also can choose to dig pits and bury new poles like traditional solar street lights, or they can be installed on existing poles, walls and other supports, which greatly reduces the construction process.

  
  

• Price advantage: Traditional city circuit lights are much cheaper than solar street lights when they are purchased, but the later costs are higher, such as replacement of accessories, components, electricity costs, maintenance costs, wiring and erection of poles, etc., there are almost no subsequent costs for solar-powered street lights.

  
  

• Simple maintenance: Compared to solar street lamps, the maintenance of traditional city circuit lights is more complicated, maintenance staff are required to go to the local area to do maintenance. The maintenance process even harder if the parts of the lights are incomplete, more time is wasted.

  
  

But we need to know that not all places are suitable for installing solar street lights, (the main reason is to ensure that the solar panels have enough lighting time), especially when the continuous rainy days are long, the brightness of the solar street lights will be significantly decreased. In addition, the cost of solar street lights varies, and the product quality offered by different brands is also different. When buying, we should choose a manufacturer with a good reputation in the industry, such as EXC company, whose street lamp products have high technical content and excellent quality, and professional after-sales service, which is very worthy of cooperation.