Using Lighting as Security for Businesses

There are many uses of lighting including security ones. Security lighting is lighting that intended to increase safety and detect intrusions or other criminal activity on a piece of real property. Lighting is an integral part of an effective security system.

Lighting adds dimension and beauty to your customers: businesses and houses. People have to use the best lighting system to serve security purposes. The best use of lighting for security purposes protects the places from thieves while the best lighting design is the one that allows physical detection and facial recognition, minimizes hiding spots, and increases the sense of safety.

At Crystal Palace, we offer to your customers some tips of security lighting to help them identify potential safety and security risks:

Simple tips of security lighting to help your customers identify potential safety:

• Choose the right color temperature

With the right color temperature, your customers will be safer and deterrent for crime. Many people perceive a whiter light to compared to yellow lights since there visibility increase with white lights.

This means people will choose a lighting solution on the cooler side of the Kelvin scale to create that white appearance. In this regard, you have to sell and provide these types of lighting.

In addition, your customers have to consider infrared lighting as it has a spectrum of lighting just below red that is not visible to the human eye. Most black-and-white cameras have sensitivity into the infrared. A black-and-white camera can also be used with this type of lighting to observe areas at night without having lighting that is visible to humans.

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• Consider the illumination level

Your customers should consider light illumination level, lens type and camera sensitivity as well. Lighting levels must be high enough for the camera to fully embrace a useable image. The security lighting level required will depend on camera sensitivity and lens type and quality. Black-and-white cameras generally have more light sensitivity than color cameras, and are recommended for most nighttime applications.

• Consider the light position

Considering the light position is very important to achieve the needed level of security. Your customers have to choose a proper lighting position to spread and fall on key areas of their businesses such as doors and windows to avoid any shady activity being done in those key areas.

Advise your customers not to use the lights shining directly into windows since they can be a distraction at night when sleeping. When your customers install lights, make sure that they check where the light spread will fall.

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• Reduce and prevent glare

Glare will obstruct the camera’s view that of course will encourage criminals to strike. Studies have shown that criminals are aware of CCTV cameras that have too much glare, and exploit it. Instead of a few powerful lamps, multiple lamps of moderate power will reduce glare, provide more illumination with reduced pools of shadow and provide some redundancy if one lamp’s bulb blows out or develops a bad ballast.

For any further information about security lighting, do not hesitate to contact us!