Welland, Ontario Under A Bright Light…Literally
As the installation process continues to move forward between Appalachian Lighting Systems and Welland, Ontario, others closely watch the process under a microscope. The Welland project is progressing at the necessary rate to be on target for the anticipated completion date. In a recent TV news program (TVCOGECO Niagara), Welland once again stole the spotlight to show off its ALLED® SL4 throughout the city. Please follow the link below to watch the news segment featuring David Ferguson, City of Welland [...]
Shining the light on new LEDs
WELLAND – The Rose City’s new LED streetlights are in the spotlight. The city’s manager of parking and traffic, David Ferguson, led representatives from Port Colborne, Fort Erie, and St. Catharines on an evening tour of the city earlier this week to see the new streetlights shining above Welland’s roadways. […]
ALLED® Fixtures Feature Innovative New Surge Protection and Light Sensor Technologies
ELLWOOD CITY, PA, — APRIL 11, 2012 —Appalachian Lighting Systems (ALSI) today announced three major enhancements to its performance-leading ALLED line of solid-state lights for street, parking garage and lot and low/high bay lighting applications. ALSI’s full line of ALLED solid-state fixtures now features enhanced surge protection that quadruples the lights’ ability to withstand power surges; a revolutionary programmable light sensing system that is significantly more reliable and durable than optical sensors, and full implementation of ALSI’s embedded ALLink® monitoring [...]
Rolling Out the LEDs
There was a light hearted atmosphere as city staff and councillors gathered at the corner Frazer and Hooker Streets Tuesday afternoon. City representatives, line contractors from Trans Test and Appalachian Lighting Systems gathered at the intersection to witness the first installation in a roll out of 4,300 LED cobra-head streetlight fixtures across the city. “For the last six years we’ve been looking at LED,” said traffic, parking and bylaw manager David Ferguson, noting the rollout of the 4,300 SL-4 fixtures [...]
Welland’s Lighting The Way
WELLAND – At precisely 7:46 p.m. Tuesday, a demonstration streetlight set up in city council chambers began to brightly glow. At the same moment, four more streetlights installed earlier in the day along Frazer St. switched on for the first time, said Rob McAnally, chief operating officer of Appalachian Lighting Systems. The new city’s new LED streetlights are programmed to light up at the same minute the sun sets, and that time changes daily. Thursday night, for instance, the lights [...]
Appalachian Lighting Announces Embedded ALLink™ Wireless Control for LED Garage Lights
ELLWOOD CITY, PA, — DECEMBER 20, 2011 — Appalachian Lighting Systems, Inc., (ALSI) today announced a new version of the company’s solid-state parking garage/canopy light series that features embedded ALLink™ wireless control and monitoring. The ALLED® CL Series, featuring 21-, 33- and 41-watt fixtures designed to replace 70- to 175-watt high intensity discharge (HID) lights in parking garage and canopy applications, can now be wirelessly controlled and monitored for light level scheduling, smart metering, power issue detection and maintenance alerts. [...]
Appalachian Launches Smart LED Street Light
Appalachian Lighting Systems (ALSI) has introduced the ALLED SL4 LED-based street light designed to replace 70-400W HID roadway fixtures, and has integrated the ALLink control system into the luminaires. The new ALSI street lights offer Type III and V beam patterns and the company says the products can save 75% in energy relative to legacy lighting sources – in part based on the integrated network capability and adaptive controls for dimming. ALSI also announced that its [...]
Welland, ON Taps ALSI/Energy Solutions for Conversion of 6,700 Streetlights to Save $2.3 million
Responding to municipalities’ calls for a cost-justifiable, high performance LED street lighting solution, Appalachian Lighting Systems (ALSI) today announced the launch of its new ALLED® SL4, the industry’s first LED street light featuring a two-way internal wireless control system. The ALLED® SL4 can be configured to replace 70- to 400-watt HID roadway Type III and V fixtures. It will save up to 75 percent or more on energy costs with the patent-pending ALLink™ control system, and meet or exceed the [...]
ALSI Product Reliability Highlighted on US DOE Panel Discussion
The LED industry has no accepted protocol for measuring and characterizing luminaire lifetime, but a new guideline from SSL Quality Advocates considers the key issues. A recently formed Solid-State Lighting (SSL) Quality Advocates working group, a group of 32 industry experts on reliability, was formed to determine a series of recommendations for LED reliability, or methods for estimating LED lifetime. […]
Welland, Ontario, shares green connection with Ellwood City
WELLAND, Ontario—Just off Highway 406, not far from the Canadian Tire store, there’s a little bit of Ellwood City in Ontario’s Niagara Region — four light-emitting diode streetlights manufactured at Wayne Township-based Appalachian Lighting Systems. The city of Welland, population approximately 54,000, has been testing the lights, similar to ones already being installed throughout Ellwood City. […]
ALSI Contributes to Newly Published Industry Guide for Testing & Reporting LED Luminaire Lifetime
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published an updated version of the guide, LED Luminaire Lifetime: Recommendations for Testing and Reporting. Developed by a working group under the auspices of DOE and the Next Generation Lighting Industry Alliance, the publication is available in PDF format on the DOE website at http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/publications/pdfs/ssl/led_luminaire-lifetime-guide_june2011.pdf. […]
Pennsylvania Manufacturer Selected in Innovative Energy Saving Relighting Project
(Ellwood City, PA)—In what is believed to be the most comprehensive, city-wide re-lighting project of its kind in North America, Appalachian Lighting Systems, Inc. (ALSI) was selected by the City of Welland, Ontario, to manufacture and deliver 6,710 ALLED™ Brand light emitting diode (LED) lighting fixtures for installation throughout the city. […]
ALSI President & CEO Featured on Recent Segment of ‘Our Region’s Business’
Our Region’s Business, hosted by Bill Flanagan, is a Sunday-morning business affairs program co-produced by the Allegheny Conference and Cox Broadcasting that aims to play a positive role in the Pittsburgh region by providing business news, information and commentary in a lively and entertaining format. […]
ALSI Connects With The Social Media World!
Appalachian Lighting Systems, Inc. is now officially a part of the Facebook world creating and developing more recognition of the company and inviting the outside world to always stay up to date with us! With this additional communication channel, we not only encourage customers and vendors to stay in contact but also look to spark new interest in our rapidly advancing company. […]
Small Businesses Raise Top Concerns
The business program Thursday at Chatham University was billed as a White House roundtable. The fact that the table was rectangular and no one from the White House made it to Chatham did not detract from the efforts of the few hundred participants on hand to talk about how government could lend a hand to business. […]