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The Project Rockstone Lane in Southampton is the first project in the UK, using Fortimo LED modules. Southampton City Council has decided to deliver on its commitment to reduce the carbon footprint by utilizing the latest green efficient LED lighting. Rockstone Lane has been chosen for a pilot run before deciding whether to extend this approach across other streets in Southampton. “We want to upgrade this street with new lighting but in the existing old heritage style”, explains Mark Humphrey, project manager at Southampton City Council.
The Challenge The most important benefit of the new lighting solution had to be energy efficiency to reduce Southampton’s carbon footprint. Secondly the new solution needed to offer a maintenance free lifetime of 10 years and a crisper light source.
Fortimo LED DLM 2000 was designed in to the existing JW (UK) Victoria street lighting lantern. The heat sink design was quite crucial in the design of the lantern, enabling the lantern to last longer, making installation easier and allowing the lantern to be retrofitted in to existing installations.
The Solution The Fortimo LED DLM system produces a high quality, bright, white light and is specifically designed to incorporate improved LED efficiencies, with no changes to dimensions, driver or lumen output. The system is equipped with a special Fortimo phosphor technology, enabling a breakthrough in LED efficacy. In this project 70W lanterns were replaced with 45W lanterns! The Fortimo driver is one of the most efficient on the market.
The whole team at Philips and JW(UK) worked hard together to put the Fortimo LED DLM 2000 in the existing elegant JW(UK) Victoria lantern. The Rockstone Lane project in Southampton demonstrates a great result of teamwork and brings many possibilities for the future.
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