Safe Lighting Point SAFE LIGHTING POINT
LUG Light Factory Sp. z o.o. is a leading European manufacturer of lighting solutions with over 30 years of experience. company specializes in the production of infrastructure, industrial and lighting, and lighting fixtures for public utility buildings as well as industrial and facilities.
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Safe lighting point is a tested, confirmed and successfully used technical solution based on extensive experience and many years of market observation. The first to take into an account is safety of pedestrians in the context of a car collision with a pole.
Elektromontaż Rzeszów S.A. is one of the largest production and assembly companies in the electrical industry in Poland. We provide the highest quality comprehensive electrical installation services and create products tailored to the individual needs of customers. It is also a producer of street lighting systems based on galvanized and lighting poles and Products of Elektromontaż Rzeszów S.A. guarantee high quality, which is confirmed by numerous certificates project entitled research and work on the development of safe lighting point” is co-financed by the National Center for and from funds, under the Program 2014-2020 – and time: – participation of
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LUG Light Factory Sp. z o.o.: Eligible expenses: 2 660 246,41 PLN Co-financing: 1 729 160,17 PLN (65%) 3
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An innovative lighting pole designed to minimize damage caused by direct impact. Safe boom • strengthened connection between the pole and the boom • innovative connection of the boom and the lighting fixture • limiting the extent of defragmentation of elements in of an impact Smart City Automation • possibility of placing smart solutions in the base of the post • two-cavity pole in the standard with PN EN 12767 Dedicated Dedicated foundation • unified design - easier assembly • innovative solution for the LE/HE class • optimized solution for the NE class Universal pole construction • support for all road classes with one structure • reduction of the carbon footprint and optimization of the assembly and service process • unified appearance of the city Safe lighting pole 4
Very high strength parameters high durability in all categories of passive safety: limiting the risk of secondary damage
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Increased level of passive safety direct impact on improving safety pole away from the edge of the road compliance with the European Union’s best practices regarding the design of a safe urban space
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Professional luminaire designed to reduce the risk of accidental injuries and minimize losses resulting from direct impact.BPOTRAFFIKLEDInnowacyjnyLUG BUMPER LED • patented solution (cover for the luminaire) • reducing the risk of accidental injury • reduction of loss from direct impact 9 dedykowanych optyk drogowych • guarantee of professional light distribution • increasing the comfort of all traffic users • dedicated for city light distribution Safety • rigid mounting of the luminaire with a lighting pole mounting system • protection against disintegration of the system into pieces 6 Modularność • available adjustable handle • reduced weight of the luminaire
Find out about the advantages of a Safe Lighting Point power 23, 35, 50, 68 lumen 3200 - 10150 lm efficacy do 155 lm/W CRI >70 colour temperature 3000, 4000K optics workingtemperatureambientcaselifespanscalessize O4, O8, O6L, O6P 540x300x904,0100aluminium-40...+50°Cwtryskiwane000h(L90)kgmm 7
The project was carried out for over two years (from June 2019 to the end of 2021). It consisted of several stages. As part of the first stage – solutions for the lighting fixture were developed – and this was where LUG was responsible. in the second stage – research was carried out on the construction of steel and aluminum poles by Elektromontaż Rzeszów S.A.
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The implementation of the SLP project was initiated by an extensive analysis of road incidents recorded by municipal monitoring, in particular with the participation of pedestrians and cyclists. Also, my own observations made during the parallel field tests contributed to the topic being raised. Modern research and construction works in the field of improving the safety of drivers and passengers have focused mainly on the problems of minimizing the effects of a vehicle collision with a pole for a wide range of speeds. The impact of the pole-lighting arrangement on other road users, including pede strians, cyclists and scooter users, was not analyzed. The topic of integrating the luminaire with the pole in the context of safety was also not discussed. The main assumption of the SLP project was to extend the concept of „lighting poles with passive safety features” to the entire lighting system, including the issue of the lighting fixture and the protection of all road users. Based on the above, a new concept of „Safe Lighting Point” has been defined.
1. What were the assumptions and where did the SLP project come from?
2. What would be the stages of the project and how important was the testing at the training ground?
Third stage was devoted to experimental research consisting of testing the prepared solutions as part of crash tests. The key issue in the research - from the point of view of the expected results of construction work - was the analysis of the mechanism and sca le of defragmentation of the elements of the lighting system consisting of a pole with an inspection cover, a boom and a lighting fixture resulting from the vhicle hitting the pole. The field tests were carried out on the professional crash test track of the Institute for Road and Bridge Construction in Inowrocław. The ammount of research equipment on the testing ground allowed for the full analysis of the individual phases of the vehicle collision with the pole, the defragmentation of the lighting system components and the scope of the impact of the dismembered SLP elements on the environment. with dr. Henryk Wachta conversation head of the R&D Project team and assistant professor at the Department of Power Electronics and Power Engineering of the Rzeszów University of Technology
6. Czym wyróżnia się rozwiązanie BPO i czy istnieją na rynku podobne rozwiązania, które zakładają poprawę bezpieczeństwa pieszych w kontekście kolizji samochodu ze słupem?
3.To what extent have the assumed goals been achieved? As a result of completed research and development works an innovative lighting set was developed that improves safety not only for the driver and the passengers of the vehicle hitting the pole but also significantly affecting the safety of other road users who can be exposed to dangerous, life and health threatening injuries from detached pole elements and. Finally, the design of the Safe Lighting Point includes five new design solutions that were submited to the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland. In this matter, the Safe Lighting Point is much more than just a pole with elements with passive safety.
The SLP solution is the first solution of this type on the road and street lighting market. The current Polish procedures for testing lighting sets in terms of the safety of road users participating in the vehicle hitting the pole focus on the safety of the driver and passengers. It should be emphasized that these participants in a collision with a pole are additionally protected by car safety systems, such as: airbags, appropriately selected materials lining the interior of the vehicle, the structure of the vehicle skeleton absorbing part of the impact force, etc. constructional lighting sets that improve pedestrian traffic safety and the methodology of verification of these structu res, especially in terms of the impact of the lighting set elements on all road users.
4. What were the challenges associated with the developed BSLP solution?
Safe Lighting Point is a novelty on the market of broadly understood road lighting. The developed structure should on the one hand retain all its functionalities ascribed to both the lighting pole and the lighting fixture, and on the other hand, it should also perform other additional functions. It should be remembered that hitting the pole by a speeding vehicle generates complex mechanical loads thr ughout the entire structure of the pole, especially in the section of the boom with the lighting fixture. A detailed analysis of this phenomenon allowed for the implementation of a multi-stage mechanism for damping mechanical forces acting on the compnents of the pole. The developed Safe Lighting Point fulfills two tasks: it limits – where it is needed – the phenomenon of dismemberment of the lighting set and minimizes the destructive impact of detached elements on the close environment of road users, especially pedestrians and cyclists.
The SLP solution is the first on the market to take into account the safety of unprotected road users in the event of a speeding vehicle hitting a lighting pole. For different variants of the speed of the car collision with the lighting pole, its components either do not defragment or the range and destructive effect of the parts of the lighting set detached from the pole are definitely limited. It is particularly desirable to use an innovative SLP solution in urbanized urban areas with intense pedestrian traffic and in places of accumulation of pedestrians - pedestrian crossi gs.Hence, additionally - in the last phase of the research work carried out, the SLP solution for lighting pedestrian crossings was refined. 9
5. How does the SLP solution improve road safety?
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Pedestrian crossing
SLP solutions as the first in Poland were installed on Łukasz Ciepliński Avenue in Rzeszów. A pedestrian crossing in the city center connected with „Jałowego” street and „Sokoła” street is a sensitive place where collisions and accidents often occurred. Pedestrians crossing the street must go through eight lanes separated by an island. SLP solutions ensured the appropriate light intensity and widened the surface of the waiting zones and thanks to a special structure pole integrated with the luminaire will reduce the effects of traffic incidents. This crossing as a result of the reconstruction of Cieplińskiego avenue carried out years ago, is very wide. A pedestrian must go through several lanes, get to an island, and again cross several lanes. The crossing was very dengerous, we had a lot of road incidents over there in the past. That is why it was so important to illuminate it and we did it thanks to „Elektromontaż”. Now pedestrians are much more visible. This task is also a symbol of what we strongly focus on in our city today, i.e. improving pedestrian safety.
Łukasza Cieplińskiego Avenue, Rzeszów
Konrad Fijołek President of Rzeszów city
SalesPointLightingSafedepartment +48 17 854 20 87 +48 17 852 59 sprzedaz@elektromontaz.com.pl81 Feel free to contact us! Tomasz Kozubek Investment Service Manager +48 606 547 tomasz.kozubek@lug.com.pl556