New York City to Test LED Street Lighting in Proof of Concept Pilot Project
Source/Type:  LIGHTimes Online - News - Staff reports

Author: LIGHTimes Staff

August 21, 2008... New York City’s Department of Transportation has decided to test LED street lights in a pilot project. The city’s Department of Design and Construction (DDC) has contracted with Lighting Science Group (LSG) and the Office of Visual Interaction (OVI), an architectural lighting design company to design, produce, and test six street lights for the pilot project.

OVI has reportedly partnered with LSG to engineer, produce, and test prototypes for the pilot project. LSG and OVI said that they would begin engineering work this month. Then in the Spring of 2009, they will begin testing the prototypes. In the proof of concept project, OVI and LSG will be responsible for fabricating the working prototypes including all of the necessary parts, and performing all of the testing needed to ensure that the prototypes meet all of the performance and design criteria.

LSG says that the early prototype version from OVI combines high brightness LEDs with lensing optics in a small oval profile. LSG notes that it is the profile that provides the structural framework and heatsink for the luminaire. Each segment of the segmented linear arrays has its own optics system. LSG notes that this confirguration can simplify product fabrication and make it possible to switch out modules when new LED technology becomes available in the future.

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