Types of Outdoor Lighting You Need to Know

Outdoor lighting has become an important part of our lives. More and more cities and rural areas have planned outdoor lighting projects. While beautifying the environment, these lighting designs provide us with more convenience and security. Then how much do you know about outdoor lighting? If you are planing to launch a lighting project, I am sure you will be benefited by this article.

Outdoor lighting engineering is a comprehensive project referring to the use of natural light or artificial lighting systems in outdoor spaces such as cities, streets, squares, scenic spots, parks, and buildings through specific design, technology and engineering to meet the illuminance, brightness, and color rendering of the illuminated surface, as well as specific visual effects.

Lighting projects are divided into landscape lighting and functional lighting according to the scope of application, form of expression and construction purpose. The specific categories are as follows:

1. Cultural tourism lighting show
The cultural tourism lighting show is derived from the gradual expansion and upgrading of traditional single and static conventional lighting projects under the background of the rise of the ″night travel economy″, which is a product of the combination of cultural performances and tourism market. It connects culture and tourism, aiming to enhance the development of the city′s ″night travel economy″. This lighting form uses modern technologies such as sound and light to integrate historical culture, traditional customs and many content and diversified forms of dynamic light show, including urban micro-films, waterscapes fountains, human-light interaction, 3D and 4D performances, etc. It is based on the cultural tourism industry and features landscape lighting for urban rejuvenation and night economy. It is an upgrade of conventional lighting projects.

2. Conventional landscape lighting
Conventional lighting engineering refers to the use of lighting sources, lamps and other lighting technology to illuminate and decorate the urban environment, public buildings or public spaces in the night environment, in order to enhance the sense of security, convenience, and beauty at night to facilitate people in office, public spaces such as buildings, commercial buildings, tourism buildings, science, education, culture and health buildings, communication buildings, transportation buildings, etc. to engage in the implementation of lighting projects for entertainment, sports and various social activities.

3. Street lighting
Street lighting is a kind of lighting which set up for streets/roads and their ancillary facilities to improve the safety of vehicles and pedestrians at night and prevent traffic accidents. Currently, due to the performance of energy saving, high efficiency, environmental protection, pollution-free, easy installation, etc., solar street lights become the first choice for many street lighting projects. On the other hand, due to the advocacy of smart cities, smart street lights have become an important carrier.

How to make an outdoor lighting project? Consider following aspects:

1. Good lighting design

2. Good lighting products

3. Good lighting construction

Next we come to learn the relevant knowledge of outdoor lighting engineering products. Outdoor lighting products are normally divided into two categories: functional lighting and artistic effect lighting.

Functional lighting lights mainly include: led street lights, high pole lights, and courtyard lights. They are professional lamps whose main function is to provide basic lighting. In addition to energy saving and life span in street lighting design, the control of glare value is the focus of lighting design.

Artistic effect lights mainly include: metal halide lights, sodium lights, LED spotlights, LED wall washer lights, LED linear lights, LED displays, underwater lights, lawn lights, etc., which are further subdivided into:

1. Direct lighting product: The light is emitted through the lamps, and 90%-100% of the luminous flux reaches the assumed working surface. This type of lighting is direct lighting. This lighting method has a strong contrast between light and dark, and can create interesting and vivid light and shadow effects, which can highlight the dominant position of the work surface in the entire environment, but due to the high brightness, it should prevent the generation of glare. Areas like factories, general offices, etc., mainly use metal halide lights.

2. LED spotlights, LED wall washer lights, LED linear lights, and LED displays are mainly suitable for night lighting in buildings, landscapes, gardens, etc. They have long service life, variable colors, and low energy consumption.

3. Underwater lights and lawn lights are mostly suitable for outdoor garden landscape use. Lawn lights can provide suitable basic lighting. It is also important to choose a reasonable combination of the shape and architectural style of the lawn lights.

Whenever you determine the lighting location, you can choose a suitable manufacturer to buy a good lighting product for construction.