Lighting

• Protective lighting - provides a means of continuing, during hours of darkness, a degree of protection approaching that maintained during daylight hours.
• Types of Protective Lighting

  1. Stationary luminary
  2. Standby lighting
  3. Movable lighting
  4. Emergency lighting
• Stationary luminary - this is common type consisting of a series of fixed luminaries to continuously flood a given area
• Types of Stationary Lighting

  1. glare projection type
  2. controlled lighting
• glare projection type - the intensity is focused to the intruder while the observer or guard remained in the comparative darkness. the lighting is toward the entrance to an installation.
• controlled lighting - the lighting is focused on the pile of items rather than the background. the width of the lighted strip can be controlled an adjusted to suit the security needs.
• standby lighting - this system is similar to continuously lighting but it is turned to manually or by a special device or other automatic means
• movable lighting - this consists of stationary or portable, manually operated searchlights. the searchlights may be lighted continuously during the hours of darkness or only as needed, and are usually supplementary to other types of security lighting.
• emergency lighting - this type may be duplicative of existing systems. this is at standby, which can be utilized in the event of electronic failure, either due to local equipment or commercial power failure.