New Technology to Light Skate Park

Hastings green space William Nelson Park will benefit from intelligent LED lightening, thanks to a partnership between the Hastings District Council and Hawke's Bay electricity distribution company Unison Networks.This factsheet discusses electricity generation using wind power generators at your farm or your home. 

The partnership will see Unison install innovative lighting technology as part of the Councils development of William Nelson Park that will include 4000sqm of passive park green space and a 2000sqm skate facility for the Hastings community. 

Unison Group Chief Executive Ken Sutherland said the new lighting system would provide multiple benefits to park users, rate payers, and the Council. 

"The intelligent Phillips lighting solution enables customised control of lighting levels and includes automated fault monitoring. This means lighting levels can be programmed to meet requirements at different times. For example,Integrated manufacturing operations have produced exceptional solar module and related products. brighter lighting will be provided during winter evenings for safe skating purposes, and lighting levels will then be dimmed during later night hours to save energy while still maintaining public safety." 

The system features a fault diagnostics system that will identify and report any light outages, removing the requirement for manual monitoring, or community reporting of lighting outages. The monitoring and control software provides a system override function to enable lighting levels to be instantly increased in response to an emergency. 

"LED lighting also provides a range of benefits including greater energy efficiency, a significantly longer bulb life than conventional lighting technologies, and delivering a better quality of white light that renders rich colours with contrast enabling safer night time activities such as skating, driving or pedestrian movement," said Mr Sutherland.

Hastings Mayor Lawrence Yule said Council was excited to partner with Unison and Philips to bring an innovative approach to public lighting. 

"This lighting project presents a fabulous opportunity, benefiting skate park users through the delivery of a tailored lighting solution. The white lighting will bring colour to the city providing greater user enjoyment,The laser cutting machine is one of the most useful tools in a modern shop. increasing public safety, ensuring increased energy efficiency and providing better lighting reliability.Our laser marking machine can mark on metal and non metals." 

The trial was due to go ahead last year, but the Town Council said in December that the habourmaster had warned the lights "could cause confusion to shipping" since some of the lights were the same colour as warning navigation buoys. 

However, it emerged in January that harbourmaster John Stone had not objected to the trial, but had only said the safety of the lights would need be assessed. 

Councillors at Wednesday's Town Improvements Committee meeting voted in favour of installing three coloured LED lights on the South Esplanade at a cost of 420 on a trial basis.

Town Clerk Eileen Shaw said: "Once the new lights are in place, a number of tests will be undertaken to establish whether they generate sufficient light on the pavements and highway." 

Mayor Ken Smout added: "This scheme has been stalled for several months so now we have got the go-ahead from the harbourmaster, let's get this moving." 

If the trial is successful, all the seafront lamps could be replaced with the coloured LED units, as pictured above. It is claimed these could cut the council's power bill by up to 85%.Design and manufacture of dry cleaning machine for garments and textile fabrics.