Seoul Semiconductor announced that units of its Z-Power LED P5-II series were applied to display visual information for public bike racks of Vélib, a public bicycle rental program in Paris.

Vélib is a public bicycle rental program, which has been run since 2007 as a Paris city project. At present, about 21 thousand bicycles are distributed in Paris downtown so that Parisians are increasingly using bikes. Vélib has become such a hit that many cities not only in Korea, but also in other countries such as London and Chicago want to benchmark the project.

Seoul Semiconductor has been supplying lighting fixtures to (about two thousand) racks of bike rental stations of Vélib spread all over Paris and finished the delivery of additional units until recently. In addition, the company will supply the products to other small cities around Paris.

Seoul Semiconductor's Z-Power LED P5-II

The Z-Power LED P5-II series products installed in the Vélib bike racks can realize full colors because three (red, green, blue) LED chips are embedded in one LED package. Depending on the lighting decorations, the Z-Power LED P5-II series can be used in a diverse way and function as low-consumption lighting in which they blink in red, blue, orange (inserting credit card) and blue(display for status of under construction and repair) according to the status of Vélib bike racks. Moreover, when it comes to design, they are making Paris, the city of fashion, more beautiful. An official of Seoul Semiconductor said, “It takes on large symbolic importance that the products of Seoul Semiconductor are used in an environment-friendly project such as Vélib that many cities in the world want to benchmark.”