How to Choose the Stadium Lighting?

How to Choose the Stadium Lighting?

Due to the characteristics of crowd aggregation in sports events, the sports industry has also been deeply affected by the epidemic. However, with the long-term coexistence of the epidemic and the opening of the world, the sports industry has received further attention and development.

Today, we look at the construction and development of sports stadiums from the perspective of sports lighting.

According to the venue, the courts can be divided into: indoor courts vs outdoor courts.

Indoor courts are divided into general entertainment and professional competitions according to their professional level. In order to improve the utilization rate of the stadium, more and more indoor stadiums are considering building comprehensive stadiums instead of traditional single function stadiums, which not only improves the efficiency of use, but also puts forward higher requirements for stadium construction, especially stadium lighting. Like common comprehensive halls, in order to meet the lighting requirements for various sports such as badminton, basketball, volleyball, and large-scale activities, lamps need to be equipped with anti glare, high light efficiency, instant startup, good stability, and single lamp access to intelligent control systems. This is also the direction of Romanso Lighting's production and development of lamps. It also solves the embarrassment that the overall lighting is not professional enough in the early stage and the lighting can only be temporarily arranged in large events for the court builders. It also greatly reduces the operation and maintenance costs of the stadium, and realizes a set of lamps plus intelligent programming to solve all indoor lighting needs.

In addition to the complex lighting requirements for indoor venues, the lighting requirements for outdoor stadiums are also increasingly high. In addition to ordinary outdoor basketball, which is relatively simple, others, such as large football fields and golf courses, have increasingly subdivided and specialized lighting parameters for the course. Like lighting distribution, there are few requirements in indoor stadiums, because the indoor courts are relatively not too large, and the lighting distribution of lamps is basically at a medium to large angle. In outdoor stadiums, the light distribution of lamps is an important factor. The characteristics of outdoor stadiums include large space, high pole installation, and long lighting distances. In order to achieve good uniformity, the small-angle light distribution of lamps is particularly important. The lamps designed by Romanso have over a dozen light distribution modes, with a light emission angle smaller than 15 degrees, which can perfectly cover the lighting area of the stadium. At the same time, the lamps can also be equipped with an overflow cover to prevent light pollution. Let the court light up where it should and not light up where it shouldn't.

Different courts may use different stadium lighting fixtures, bringing different experiences to users. Appropriate lighting fixtures for basketball courts and stadiums are important for everyone. So, how to choose professional stadium lighting fixtures? When purchasing lighting fixtures for stadiums, which aspects should be selected?

1. Lighting level. You can refer to general court lighting level, and if it is a venue for high-level competitions (such as the Professional League or the Asian Cup World Championships), can also refer to FIBA or NBA standards.

2. Installation structure. If it is a field, use a light pole, and choose the installation location and height. If it is a gymnasium, it is necessary to investigate whether the location and height of the lamp are reasonable, and it is also necessary to consider the installation structure and whether the bearing capacity meets the standard.

3. Site marking. The site marking is actually related to the installation location. The reason for raising this point alone is that many courts may have other lines besides a basketball line. For example, half-court basketball or two pieces of basketball sometimes become one piece of basketball, or there are several pieces of badminton on the basketball court. These lines mean that there are other sports to consider at the same time, and the lighting layout, including directionality, requires attention during design.

4. Lamp selection. For the layout lights outside the site marking, the required lights are floodlights. It is generally recommended to use specialized stadium lighting fixtures. The advantage is that the lighting control is more accurate, making it easier for design and calculation to achieve results. Ordinary floodlights generally do not have extremely narrow light distribution, making it difficult to calculate successfully if the courts are slightly larger, and glare control is very difficult. The uniform arrangement of lamps on the top is a method of installing them on a truss. The lamps needed are high-ceiling lamps, commonly known as industrial and high bay lamps. The high ceiling lights of the sports court are different from ordinary industrial high bay lights. They also require the use of relatively narrow light distribution and good measures to control glare.

5. Electrical and control. The design also requires attention to the layout of the pipeline and the control system and control method. The wiring should be clear and economical as possible, and there should be enough redundancy because the starting current of LED lamps is relatively large. For sites with higher standards, it is generally recommended to design intelligent control systems, which require additional content and selection of corresponding control system equipment. The most important thing is to pay attention to the budget.

"The budget is high and the budget is low, and the design ideas and lamp selection, including all the above, are not quite the same.". For example, selecting lamps of different grades can achieve lighting standards, but high-end lamps will achieve better results, with quality advantages and disadvantages over the standard. At the same time, there are some well-known brand lamps, but experienced designers know that the cost-performance ratio is very low. Some less well-known lamps may not be understood by non-professionals, but their cost effectiveness is high.

Take the basketball court as an example Uniformity of basketball court lighting: Whether the illumination on the playground is uniform. The uniformity of lighting is used to measure the visual conditions of a basketball court. Uniformity refers to the uniform lighting of the basketball court, without too bright or too dark areas, providing good visual conditions for basketball players, spectators, and referees. For example, during TV broadcasting, when the camera takes a panoramic view of the competition area, there should be no significant changes in illumination, otherwise, the camera will be exposed.

Basketball court lighting glare: Is the glare obvious? Glare is another important factor in evaluating the lighting quality of basketball courts. Glare is related to the installation method, height, quantity, density, and light distribution of lamps. When the brightness contrast in the field of vision is too large, people may feel dizzy, which affects visibility. If you look at the sun on a sunny noon, you will feel unable to open your eyes. This is glare caused by excessive brightness. The glare of the basketball court is a direct glare. If the light is dark, the light source is very harsh when the players exercise, and the eyes are uncomfortable for a long time, which seriously affects the players' observation of the ball movement.

Basketball court light source: stable light source, high energy efficiency. Currently, the commonly used lamps for basketball court lighting are LED lamps, with high-quality and long-life LED package materials and good heat dissipation technology, low light attenuation, and high LED luminous flux maintenance rate; Uniform color distribution, no glare, excellent illumination uniformity, and brightness uniformity. The integrated structure of heat dissipation, light distribution, and lamp housing, LED packaging technology, and single lamp power up to 300W.

Thus, we should pay more attention to the stadium lighting for indoor and outdoor, then we can get a right sports lighting solution and right LED sports lights. If you have the sports lighting project at hand or you wanna discuss with us for more details, kindly contact us via romanso@romanso.com.