Lit when it is used. Off when it is not.
A sports facility is the clearest case in lighting: the power is large, the hours are few, and the person who decides is standing on the pitch. The waste is never the lamp — it is the hour nobody switched it off.
Floodlighting on a sports area — installed site
Three habits that cost a season of energy.
All three come from the same cause: switching a field is inconvenient, so it stays on.
Left on after training
The last person out does not have the keys to the electrical room, so the lights stay on until morning.
Full power for everything
Training, a match and cleaning the pitch all get the same level, because there is only one switch.
Car park all night
Lit at full output for a venue that is empty five nights a week.
Lighting control →No connection, no control
Remote fields with no line and no budget for one — usually the ones left running.
Standalone control →A panel on the wall, and scenes that match the activity.
Groups and scenes — training, match, cleaning, security — as buttons on a 10.1″ panel in the clubhouse, driving the luminaires over the mesh. A schedule runs underneath, and whoever is on site can always override it.
The panel and the nodes are enough; a connection adds remote visibility, not control.
After an override the schedule resumes by itself — which is what actually stops the lights being left on.
Radar on paths and car parks raises the light as someone approaches and lets it fall back.
The panel screen of a sports installation — four pitches, their groups and the next match
Solar poles, managed properly.
On remote pitches and paths, the node talks to the charge controller instead of a mains driver, and manages the night profile against the energy actually stored — rather than running at full power until the battery gives up at four in the morning.
Profile against charge
The level follows what is in the battery, so the light lasts the whole night.
No trench, no meter
An independent installation where bringing a supply would cost more than the lighting.
Same platform
Solar poles, mains poles and buildings on the same map if a connection exists.
Sports and venue lighting, including standalone and solar installations, is part of our installed base. References on request.
Ask for a reference →How many fields, and who switches them on?
The answer to the second question decides the design more than the first one does.