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Wireless control for LED garage lights

Appalachian Lighting Systems has 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 41W fixtures designed to replace 70 to 175W 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.
March 19, 2012 Read time: 1 min
4020 Appalachian Lighting Systems has 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 41W fixtures designed to replace 70 to 175W 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.

According to parking garage industry officials, the cost of powering and maintaining lighting can be as much as 95% of total operating costs. Appalachian Lighting claims its new ALLink-controlled LED lights provide energy savings of 80 to 90% when compared with the HID lights they replace.

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