Parents typically tell their children from an early age to avoid dark and abandoned streets and to stay on well,lit and populated thoroughfares when they are out at night.

The revolution in industrial and commercial lighting is shepherding in a host of new LED lighting systems that are replacing traditional metal halide and high pressure sodium fixtures.

Metal halide lights have been the de facto standard for illumination of outdoor and large indoor spaces for more than fifty years.

Major auto racing venues were latecomers with respect to using artificial lighting for nighttime events.

The second advantage of LED lights is in their ability to be directed and controlled to shed light uniformly across sidewalks and crosswalks with few or no dark spots or shadows between elevated light standards.

Manufacturers of LED lights and lighting systems typically represent that LED’s have a useful life of at least 50,000 hours, and in many cases up to 100,000 hours.

he StubHub Arena, which is the outdoor sports facility where the LA Galaxy plays its home games, in July 2016 became the first MLS soccer arena to transition to LED field lighting.

challenges for lighting system designers and engineers. They are often much larger than their forebears, often covering more than one hundred thousand square feet.