Case of Middelfart
Middelfart Municipality has partnered with Focus Lighting and Seneco to create a cycling track with adaptive lighting. The system boosts safety and comfort by adjusting light levels based on movement while minimizing energy waste.
About the project
The municipality of Middelfart, in partnership with Focus Lighting and Seneco, have implemented a modern cycling track. The pathway features adaptive lighting not only as a way to optimally use energy, but also to contribute to the safety and comfort of the bicycle commuters and local residents.
Comfort, safety and energy efficiency are the main design principles: each lighting fixture along the pathway is set to light up at 10 percent of lighting capacity, this assures visibility clearance a long way ahead without too much energy waste.
When a runner or a cyclist passes by, the luminary based SENSOR registers motion and adjusts the lighting levels to 100 percent in the present luminary and the ones ahead. Thus the cyclists and runners benefit from a comfortable track. The intersections are constantly illuminated at full lighting capacity to eliminate collision risk.
"We are talking about the most modern full-scale facilities in Denmark. This is the future of lighting on cycling pathways and in housing areas"
Niels Bebe, chairman of the Technical and Environmental Committee in Middelfart