Lighting is a major energy consumer and renovation cost for warehouses, despite this, many companies do not skimp on lighting for warehouses, as lighting is critical to the performance and safety of a warehouse. Because of the size and needs of warehouses, there is no standard universal answer to warehouse lighting systems. For the layman, it is important to choose from the many solutions available to suit your warehouse needs. It is a very difficult task. This article can provide you with some help in selecting the right warehouse lighting.
The importance of choosing the right warehouse lighting
Worker safety & health
Usually a warehouse is a large space with a large footprint and floor height, so it is difficult to provide sufficient lighting brightness with normal interior lighting, which is very similar to a warehouse and a stadium. For many companies the safety of the warehouse is critical, so the lights used in the warehouse need to be able to provide sufficient brightness, while avoiding excessive power brought about by the heating problem and fire hazards.
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In addition to the security of the warehouse itself is the value of efficient storage of goods, modern warehouse management has a complex classification management system, with advanced lighting system can quickly find the corresponding needs of the area, from the many shelves, in addition to such a system can effectively reduce the entire warehouse source loss.
Energy saving
ESG strategy has received more and more attention from companies in the last decade since it was proposed, and lighting will be the biggest energy consuming part in non-refrigerated warehouses. Such efficiency is well proven in large and very large warehouses. On the other hand, the new LED lights last longer in warehouses, reducing the cost of light maintenance and the impact of maintenance on warehouse use.
What type of lights are used in the warehouse
High bay light
Sometimes we use high bay lights for warehouse lighting because it provides extensive and bright lighting for the warehouse floor. It is basically a lighting fixture installed on the ceiling above 10 meters.
Low bay light
In small and medium-sized warehouses, low bay light has more efficient brightness because of the reduction in mounting height that sees light loss. Compared with large warehouses Low bay light has more kinds of design solutions, need to choose the most suitable one according to the warehouse conditions and needs, usually by professional lighting design company to provide services.
Flood light
Flood light and is another solution, and the previous two hanging way is different, flood light is installed in the ground from the bottom to provide lighting way, and hanging compared to easier to maintain and replace, so that the use of very large warehouses, can be very effective in reducing installation costs, while avoiding the shadow caused by high shelves, there is a higher efficiency of use.
LED vs HID warehouse lights
HID lamp technology is mature to be widely used for many years, LED is relatively new technology. From the light efficiency LED lights have obvious advantages of the average light efficiency of 150lux per watt and HID lights only 100lux, in other words to achieve the same lighting effect, HID lights require greater power to the warehouse risk is also greater. In addition, HID service life is much lower than LED lights, in the use of 5000 hours after the light intensity depreciation for the original half, but LED lights in the beginning of the investment is higher than HID, but combined with the later maintenance costs LED is the best solution.
