Landscape Forms launches outdoor LED lighting

by Shane Henson — November 25, 2011— Landscape Forms, a leading designer and manufacturer of site furniture in North America, recently launched LEO, the company’s newest, most advanced and most versatile outdoor LED (light-emitting diode) lighting solution. LEO includes both pedestrian (12-16 feet height) and streetscape (20-25 height) lighting with a fresh aesthetic and genuine versatility.

While Landscape Forms has pioneered the design of lighting products as part of integrated site furnishing collections, LEO has a mission all its own, says the company. It is a universal light that stands alone, works well with a wide range of Landscape Forms furniture products, complements contemporary and traditional settings, and can be retrofit to poles from any manufacturer in existing installations, making it possible to bring leading-edge LED technology and a whole new look to existing landscapes without costly infrastructure change.

LEO possesses many other benefits as well that make it an excellent choice for facilities managers and building owners looking for a product that provides energy-efficient lighting outdoors and that is also aesthetically pleasing and versatile. LEO offers:

• Energy Efficiency: LEO employs up-to-date high-efficacy LED light sources that produce more lumens with less wattage than conventional bulbs and have a lifespan of 60,000 to 100,000 hours. LEDs are arranged in a sealed quick-connect luminaire/cartridge that enables easy replacement. Multiple triangular LED arrays are mounted so as to facilitate wiring in series and in parallel, enabling LEO to handle electricity more efficiently. Constant current driver technology guards against voltage surges and wasted energy. Superior heat management, achieved through the canopy design and all-aluminum construction, efficiently dissipates generated heat into the ambient air to prolong LED life.
  
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  LEO uses warm white LEDs that provide illumination similar to moonlight and have a lifespan of 60,000 to 100,000 hours.

  Visual Experience: LEO employs warm white LEDs that provide a more pleasant visual experience than cool white light. A custom-designed collimated optic sends light on angled trajectories, directing light onto more points on the path and putting it exactly where it is needed, eliminating light pollution, and virtually eliminating the points of light visible when one looks up into the light. A Cyro-Acrylyte lens placed over the LED array softens and diffuses the light, providing a pleasing “sheet” of light with 85% light transmission, reducing light scatter, hot spots and glare, and delivering more appropriate light levels for night vision than daylight simulating “glare bombs.”
  

• Functional Versatility: LEO pedestrian and streetscape lights come complete with canopy, poles and mounting plates for new installations. A simple clamping mechanism that affixes the canopy armature to the pole simplifies installation. This mechanism also makes it possible to retrofit LEO fixtures to existing poles with attendant savings in labor, materials and time. It also allows two fixtures to be mounted at different heights on opposite sides of a single pole to efficiently illuminate adjacent pedestrian walkways and streets.
  
• Health and Environment: The LEDs used in LEO support Dark Skies, are lead and mercury free, and avoid the over-illumination associated with bright white HID sources. In contrast with most outdoor public lighting, which employs cool blue-white color in the 6500 Kelvin daylight range that is on the edge of the UVA spectrum implicated in species extinction and adverse effects on human health, LEO uses 3500 Kelvin warm white LEDs that provide illumination similar to moonlight. This bio-mimicry addresses the night vision switch in humans from photopic to mesopic vision, supporting the natural circadian rhythm and melatonin/serotonin cycles essential for human health, claims the company.