Over the last decade, solar energy has experienced a significant average annual growth rate, whilst cost of solar panels and installation has dropped.
Solar farms are systems of solar photovoltaic panels that often cover large areas of land in rural areas, which makes essential to place effective perimeter protection. The Company GJD was commissioned to manufacture reliable security lighting to work in conjunction with the video surveillance system at a solar farm in Cambridgeshire to provide optimum security.
The farm required an intelligent detection lighting and video surveillance solution for a 13MW PV installation. Key specifications for the project included reliable security lighting, even in adverse weather conditions, precisely angled lighting and up to 95 metres lighting range. Given the type of the project, it was also very important that the lighting selected had very low energy consumption without compromising on quality or efficiency.
GJD worked closely with AGE CCTV Systems and the solar park project manager to select the most suitable security lighting. After careful consideration it was decided that the Infra-Red Clarius® IM illuminator was the perfect lighting solution as it is specifically designed to provide world class leading performance, long lifetime and ultra-low maintenance.
The director of AGE CCTV Systems Gary Whiteman commented: “AGE choose Clarius® LED illuminators from GJD to complement our CCTV system as it provides competitively priced, high performance LED lighting in a rural environment “.
Combining surface mount LEDs with enhanced optical output and excellent reliability, the Infra-Red Clarius® IM illuminator enables high quality night-time images and works in conjunction with black and white or day and night cameras to emit light invisible to the human eye, but fully visible to the video surveillance camera. Each unit is installed with integrated control circuitry to carefully control the LED output, so it emits a uniform illumination for the solar farm and it is designed to have an operational lifetime of over 10 years.
