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Your Choice of Lighting for Safety and Efficiency Outdoors-Light Emitting Diode Lighting
By: Shawn Gumataotao
We spend much of our time learning about how we should advise our customers and potential customers about the use of specific lighting products for their respective facilities. For GET,LLC, outdoor lighting has been one area we get plenty of inquiries on and we work hard to find the right solutions that are safe and above all efficient-a growing trend we're finding with property owners and facilities managers across Guam and Micronesia. Recently, we were asked about outdoor lighting and what is best for this part of the world. There is no doubt that outdoor lighting is key in guaranteeing the safety of your facility. Not only does a well-lit outdoor area ensure that employees and guests are able to come and go during the night hours without concern, it also acts as a deterrent to would-be thieves and criminals. It’s hard to sneak into a building, if that building offers no shadows in which to vanish — dark areas are perfect places for break-ins and other criminal activities.
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The problem with outdoor lighting, of course, is that it represents an enormous energy cost. Running outdoor lights all night, every night can quickly raise your power bill into the stratosphere. And performing maintenance on lights every few months certainly comes with costs of its own. That’s why outdoor light-emitting diode (LED) lighting has become such an in-demand alternative for organizations that still want beautiful outdoor lights but also want more efficiency and lower energy costs.
Replacing your existing outdoor lights with outdoor LED lighting will result in a dramatic reduction in energy used, lower maintenance costs (LEDs last longer than traditional lighting solutions), and more control over how you light the area. The light created is also purer and cleaner; say goodbye to harsh yellow tones fired off by aging lighting systems-common across the islands. You’ll find outdoor LED lighting solutions to fit all purposes, from lighting a small garden to keeping a loading dock secure.
LED lighting solutions have been shown to provide higher quality light with a dramatic reduction in energy burned. While traditional lights burn into heat a great deal of the energy they pull, LED lights use almost all of the energy they pull for light generation. LED lighting also have a longer lifespan than traditional lights and can be installed in much more interesting ways due to not being so reliant on decades-old fixture shapes and designs.
Simply, there are two big benefits to LED lighting in general: It’s more efficient and flexible. Outdoor LED lighting solutions are no different in this regard from their indoor counterparts.
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For more information on bringing an LED lighting solution to your facility, please contact us at GET, LLC at 671483-0789 or see our website at www.get-guam.com for details of the technologies that can be of significant value to all building owners-All Made
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