Security Lighting and Its Effects

The provided assignment is a detailed analysis of security lighting's significance in reducing crime rates and managing energy efficiency. The document emphasizes the necessity of balancing ornamental lighting with environmental considerations to prevent light pollution. It also highlights the importance of thoughtful actions in identifying inefficient connections, conserving resources, and distinguishing situations requiring expert information.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Purpose of Efficient illumination.....................................................................................................2
Natural surveillance.....................................................................................................................2
Prevent malicious interference....................................................................................................3
How does lighting deters criminal activities...................................................................................3
How does lighting enables criminal activities.................................................................................4
Five attributes business operators should know about lighting.......................................................5
Energy Management........................................................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
Reference.........................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
Security lighting plays a vital part in security measure that envisioned to detect or deter
interferences or other illegal activity on any property. Security lighting can also be utilized to rise
a feeling of welfare. Lighting is essential to crime prevention through conservational design.
Nowadays everyone is realizing the significance of commissioning lighting system. According to
some research 30% of buildings has lighting deficiencies. Innovative cost effective and efficient
technique for automation is highly required to conserve energy in energy-conservation world.
Nowadays everybody is concerns about the overuse of energy resources and trying to achieve
efficient techniques to lessen the use of particularly electricity. Nations are switching to the
energy efficient lighting system which are reliable method and cost effective of energy-saving.
Purpose of Efficient illumination
Lighting plays a vital key part in our daily life. It provides some mandatory and
significant aspects such as a safer environment, assist visibility, increase the number of useful
time in a day, attract attention and so on (Fennelly, 2016). The basic purpose of is to provide a
quantity and quality of light that is suitable for environment in which it is being used while
providing a balance of energy and cost consumption through optimum selection of products and
good design.

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Natural surveillance
Security lighting is now turn to an effective form of deterrence. Intruders are less likely to
enter in a surveillance area rather than birching doors, gates and other entrees. It allows
authorities to monitor all individuals who are entering or exiting. While surveillance a wide area
some blind spots can affect the proper monitoring and it could be avoided by using proper high-
intensity lighting. While poor lighting can form a glare which can hinder visions. According to
some research many intruders are tried to take the advantage and exploit it.
Source:(Welsh, Farrington & Taheri, 2015)
Prevent malicious interference
Intruders can interfere with the circuits of lights and electric meters. By utilizing efficient
illuminations, this type of interfere can be avoided. Because in most security lightning system the
wires, circuits and electric meters are protected or inaccessible.

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How does lighting deters criminal activities
Summer Night Light program has been a huge success in reducing gang related crime according
to the city of Los Angles. From 2008 the SNL program decreases 57% of homicide-related
deaths in participating neighborhoods. (Crowe & Fennelly, 2013). By analyze Los Angeles
police statistics, Los Angeles times publish a report stating since 2007 the crime has been
reduced 40.4% in areas surrounds SNL squares.
 Improved lightning can upsurge community cohesiveness and pride that prominent to a
better preparedness to intercede in corruption and to report it.
 Lawbreakers commit corruption in both darkness and light, subsequent imprisonment
and nightly arrests would decrease both nighttime and daytime crimes.
 Lighting can increase the risk of recognition for potential offenders that can deters them
when committing crime (Lee, 2013).
 Efficient lighting can give courage to the people to stroll at nighttime which would
growth surveillance rate.
 Improving lighting leads to arrest some offenders can affect the other intruders as they
will be afraid to repeat the same.
 Police become more perceptible, thus leading to a judgment to stop the crime.
How does lighting enables criminal activities
 Improved lighting allows visibility of prospective victims that enables better assessment
of their vulnerability. Offenders can easily see the valuable items or target related to
their desire (Lorenc et al., 2013).

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 Improvement lighting might attract mess like prostitutions and drug deals.
 Disorderly actions concentrated upon anew illuminated area can extend into the usage of
that particular spot as a meeting place at daytime.
 Better lighting of infrequently used footpaths might enable adverse behavior.
Five attributes business operators should know about lighting.
Specification
Specification of lights such as Watts, foot-candle, lumen and lamp where watts dealings
with the quantity of electrical energy used (Kong & Kim, 2013). Foot-candle measures light on a
area per rectangular foot in an area on which one unit of light is spread uniformly. Lumen
specifies the unit of light production from a bulb.
Types
The bulbs of quartz halogen and Halogen lamps consisted with halogen gas similar to
scaled-beam headlights that deliver 25% better efficacy and lifespan than regular luminous bulbs
(Martin & Donaghy, 2015). Another type is Fluorescent lamps from whose the electricity pass
through a type of gas fenced in a glass cube to yield light, producinging 40 to 80 lumens per
watt.
Cost and ROI
Cost of a lighting system can be categorized in three parts as 1) 88% energy price, 2) 8%
capital price 3) Preservation charge. While ROI can be categorized into 1) energy and efficiency

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reserves profit. 2) The concept of going green. 3) Decrease costs by shutting down pointless
units.
Lighting Equipment
 Find outskirts lighting to let illuminations work efficiently in both sides of fence.
 Lights should directed down and away from the desired place to generate glare for any
intruder while make sure that does not obstruct the surveillance by the guarding officers.
 Protect the lighting system is essential. The lighting arrangement should placed inside the
barrier and set up proactive cover over lamps.
 Motion-activated illumination for internal and external places can be considered.
Considering backup and ethical dilemma
 While using high-intensity lights it is essential to check whether the neighbors are
affecting with it.
 Conserve a stock of auxiliary power and transportable emergency lights in the incident of
an energy miscarriage.
 If required consult with other business owner to demand local government to set up
enhanced street lights.
Energy Management
The management and efficiency of illumination is now considered as a high significance
in improvement existing systems and commissioning new constructions (Marman, 2015).
Thoughtful actions must be taken to decrease energy waste and use. However Electrical servicers
are becoming well refined in lighting enterprise that would increase effectiveness and energy
efficiency. Lighting design enterprise need to –

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 Identify inefficient connections.
 Cherish the environment, price and related profits of resource proficient lighting systems.
 Distinguish the circumstances in which specialist information and expert is needed in the
enterprise of management schemes.
Conclusion
From the above discussion certain purpose, effects of security lighting could be
recognized. The amount of illumination pollution is necessary to decrease for making sure
security applications and safety. The aspiration to have desired ornamental lighting installations
is also increasing so for saving energy the answer lies in cooperation. Improvement schemes
must be designed with a degree of thought given to the avoidance of energy waste and light
pollution.

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