Indoor Plant Lighting of the Future

Illustration: Simon Danaher in Wired Magazine 

The lighting design firm Office for Visual Interaction (OVI) won a streetlight design competition sponsored by the City of New York. This may be the LED powered streetlight of the future in the city. 

More than likely we will also be providing light for indoor plants using LED lamps like these in our homes and offices. Inadequate light is clearly the most significant limiting factor to expanding the use of plants in buildings.  

LED lighting along with better education about sub-irrigation will be of major help in the spread of urban greenscaping for both food production and environmental purposes. 

This is from the OVI website. 

In 2004, an international design competition was launched to create a new standard streetlight for the City of New York. Our design was selected after a two-stage competition process, and will add to the City’s existing catalogue of fixtures to light streets, sidewalks, and parks within the city’s five boroughs. 



In creating a streetlight that will become a new classic, we asked ourselves, “What is the light source of the future?” Hi-flux LEDs emerged as an outstanding solution. With their small size, low wattage, intensity, and extremely long life of over 50,000 hours, LEDs are preeminent as an energy efficient, minimal-maintenance source. 



Rethinking the aesthetic potential of LED technology was a driving force for the streetlight’s elegant form. In contrast to the bulky cobra-heads associated with high-pressure sodium lamps, the streetlight takes on a slim, elongated profile enabled by the tiny size of its light source, which does not require a hefty decorative enclosure. Instead, the thin arc of the luminaire itself provides the necessary surface area for housing and cooling the LEDs. The revolutionary aesthetic of the streetlight is specifically derived from the requirements and possibilities of LED technology.

Via: Inhabitat

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Led Lighting is the multi-purpose, multi-usage, eco-friendly, energy saving and cost saving lights used for many applications one of which is growing plants really a great invention for the present century, it will become greatest if its prices come down to affordable ranges so that it can be used in all applications.