Industrial Lighting
Industrial lighting has been revolutionized over the past two decades as solid-state lighting has replaced incandescent and fluorescent lights. The transition from costly, filament-powered, heat-generating legacy lighting systems with a short lifespan to fully customizable, highly efficient, durable, and long-lasting LEDs has impacted consumers and industry alike. From lighting development kits and LEDs to fixtures and lighting connectors, a TTI Specialist will help you ensure your lighting design is efficient and bright.
General Lighting
| The rapid growth and capabilities of LED lighting, combined with cost efficiencies, has opened this compact, bright, durable, and energy-efficient lighting solution to a wide variety of commercial, industrial and consumer uses. LEDs are being used in many critical applications, such as traffic lights, street lights and vehicle illumination, and therefore must be more reliable than ever. Switches, drive circuitry, controllers and fuse boxes are crucial to allow full functionality, even in harsh or unusual conditions. LEDs are also facilitating the transition to more environmentally friendly "green" buildings, streets and cities. This lighting source is the go-to for Energy Star compliance and a lower electric bill, as they use far less energy to operate and generate a fraction of the heat traditional light sources output. Beyond the impressive energy efficiency they provide, LEDs are helping usher in a new age of solar lighting, which has traditionally required batteries and prohibited full adoption in many areas. But thanks to LEDs, a supercapacitor can be used in place of a traditional battery by soaking up the sun and powering LEDs, even in harsh unfriendly environments. |
Indoor/Outdoor Signage
Advancements in LEDs have revolutionized signage, creating the ability to effortlessly illuminate colorful, bright displays that are efficient, low-profile and can handle rapid cycling.
Key to signage lighting are connectors with a low-profile, flat surface design that prioritize space saving. For outdoor signage, UV-resistant housing is crucial to ensure that components can withstand direct or indirect sunlight for long periods of time without degrading.
Critical outdoor components, such as street lights and illuminated traffic signs, require robust protection against overvoltage caused by lightning strikes or other power grid issues. Pole-mounted breakaway fuses can aid in keeping the lights on through the worst storms.
Indoor fixtures prioritize ease of installation and low-profile design, along with cost-saving capabilities. Interconnect solutions are key to achieving these requirements by enabling faster and more efficient connections through tool-less installation.
Safety & Security
| Proper lighting is critical for maintaining a secure environment and detecting when something might be amiss, and LED lighting does the job through low-cost, highly-customizable solutions. When lighting is paired up with motion sensors, efficiency and safety is combined to create an environment where lights are only activated when needed. Whether it’s in a restroom, a parking garage, an office after hours, or in conjunction with a security camera, motion-activated lighting can make any environment more secure. LEDs are also increasingly used in infrared motion detection systems, allowing for more sensitive and customizable detection capabilities. Emergency lighting that is activated in buildings during power outages has benefited from LED advancements, as well. Traditionally, emergency lights are battery powered, requiring constant upkeep from building maintenance. The combination of supercapacitors and LEDs virtually solve this problem, allowing for reliable and long-lasting emergency lighting capabilities. |
Transportation
| Studies show that about 90 percent of driving decisions are based on what information the driver acquires through their visual senses. Line of sight and visual awareness is crucial while operating a vehicle, and the evolution of automotive lighting strives to continually enhance driver visuals. LEDs are slowly but surely replacing halogen or other types of headlights, allowing auto manufacturers and drivers alike more decision power over what buttons and controls are lit and how. Automotive LEDs require lengthened life and increased efficiency, as well as the connectivity and capability to be constantly adjusted. Headlight color, beam shape and output intensity can be continuously altered depending on driving conditions, creating a more customizable—and safer—experience for drivers. Today, ambient lighting within the interior of a vehicle can be just as important as headlights. What started as indicator lights and simple dashboard illumination has expanded into subtle but important applications such as backlit displays, occupancy detection, night vision, and even sleepy driver detection safety systems. |
Horticulture
| Advancements in horticultural lighting might be more important than ever as the global population continues to rise and available land to grow food dwindles. Massive indoor growing operations rely on efficient and highly customizable lighting systems to facilitate growth in greenhouses or vertical grow farms to produce products from vegetables to cannabis. Technology has made this new approach to food production widely successful, with perks including high yields, less water usage, year-round growing capabilities, and fewer insect issues. Horticultural lighting solutions are unique in such a carefully-calibrated environment, where even the slight change in lighting and temperature may affect crop growth. Indoor farming LED systems must allow for easy install and save space with compact design. Additionally, heat sinks or cooling components are often required alongside the lighting to reduce the temperature changes caused by lighting systems. A single growing facility may require several types of LED lighting fixtures that can be controlled both simultaneously and individually to replicate natural light patterns and reduce shadowing. |
Advancements in LEDs have come a long way in just a decade—in 2009, LEDs operated at 50 lumens per watt, which was then considered cutting-edge efficiency, and today have a luminous efficiency above 100 lumens per watt. In 2013, the first LED bulb received an Energy Star certification, raising the bar for the technology and cementing its reputation as a cost-effective solution. As the technology improves and cost efficiency improves so does the mainstream adoption of LED technology.
The ability for LEDs to be powered by alternate energy sources such as supercapacitors instead of batteries is also groundbreaking, allowing for a much longer life and lower power usage and furthering advancements in energy-efficient emergency and motion-activated lighting. The improved reliability, efficient performance, and extensive customization capabilities of LEDs has bolstered entire industries, including general lighting, street lighting, indoor farming, solar power, and smart cities.
The future of lighting looks bright, LEDs are being combined with IoT connectivity capabilities for even more customization and control in the commercial and industrial space, and smart lighting has become the new norm.
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