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Montparnasse Tower: new splendor in the LED light glow

The famous Paris Montparnasse tower (Montparnasse Tower) was founded nearly 40 years ago, now in the new LED lighting deck, the face take on an altogether new aspect. When the seasons change, dynamic, light in the night sky in the Montparnasse in Paris has become the new vision.

PHILPS lighting lighting designer R GIS Clouzet to create an innovative and sustainable LED lighting for the Paris one high-rise building solutions. Clever lighting design of the night sky in Paris brilliant pearl. The project achieved two goals: one is to create a livable environment for the local residents; in addition by significant lighting effects enhance the reputation of montparnasse. High-rise buildings installed inside the 972 PHILPS LED main voltage enhanced color light, the installation of the top 58 PHILPS LED high power dynamic color floodlight lamps, to within 8 kilometers radius of residents can enjoy the night in Montparnasse style.

"Four seasons""

The new design of the Montparnasse lights should be changed from time to time, every hour, every day, every season pass a different kind of light; and in a variety of lighting changes and endless colors, create unique lighting effects of the four seasons. In addition, Montparnasse also designed for like "White Nights" festival of lights (La Nuit Blanche) and "Music Festival" (La F te de la the Musique) and the characteristics of Paris Festival set up special lighting effects. Artists can adjust and control the lighting of the building to strengthen and enhance the festive atmosphere.

Sustainable Lighting Solutions: save energy, save maintenance costs

Overall, compared with the original PHILPS lighting Montparnasse lighting scheme, the application of new energy consumption from 272 kwh to 25 kwh, reduced by more than 90%! This means that the energy consumption of the 56 - story, 210 - meter - tall monster is only equivalent to the energy consumed by the 10 electric irons! The new lighting equipment used by the building has a longer life and lower maintenance cost of LED; meanwhile, the brightness of the light is 3 times lower than that of the previous one, and the light pollution is greatly reduced under the premise of ensuring the lighting effect.

Behind the Montparnasse tower lighting scheme of digital:

972 dynamic LED contour lights and 58 LED spotlights

The service life of each LED lamp is 50000 hours, that is, for a period of 15 years

The new lighting scheme is 3 times brighter than before

40000 pixel lighting patterns

Very low energy consumption: less than 25 kWh

56 and 210 meter high building energy consumption is only equivalent to the energy consumption of the 10 household irons.

About Royal Dutch Philips Electronics Ltd

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