Bridgelux’s RS LED arrays have been selected by ZON LED as the LED-based light source for their billboard lighting retrofit solution permitting easy upgrades for the most common billboard lighting fixtures in North America.

ZON LED is now retrofitting 6000 metal halide (MH) lighting systems for one of the largest outdoor advertisers in North America, with plans to retrofit another 4000 over the next 3 months with installations in Canada and the United States.

Current billboard lighting systems use 1 to 4, 400W lamp fixtures to provide sufficient billboard illumination. ZON LED developed a customized retrofit solution using Bridgelux RS LED arrays that accurately directs the light beam onto the billboard panel dramatically reducing the problem of light pollution caused by traditional MH lighting systems. A conventional billboard lighting system with 2 MH fixtures consumes about 4000 kW per year based on the 12 hour per day seven day per week operation. The ZON LED retrofit module by comparison, consumed only about 1200 kW per year for an annual savings of 72% in energy costs. In addition, the long life of LED-based lighting systems virtually eliminates the need of lighting maintenance.