- The Bay Lights, a Dynamic installation featuring 25,000 Philips
connected LEDs, returns to Bay Bridge
- New system employs Philips ActiveSite technology for efficient
monitoring and maintenance
SOMERSET, N.J. -- (Business Wire)
This Saturday, the non-profit arts organization, ILLUMINATE, the
California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), the Metropolitan
Transportation Commission (MTC) and world-renowned artist Leo Villareal
will officially re-light The Bay Lights, an iconic LED lighting
installation on the San Francisco Bay Bridge, using equipment developed
by Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), the global leader in lighting.
The artwork, which originally appeared in March 2013 as a two-year
installation, will now permanently illuminate the San Francisco Bay’s
night sky with 25,000 Philips connected light points and an advanced
cloud-based connected lighting platform to remotely monitor and maintain
the lighting system.
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The new installation uses eW Flex Compact lighting from Philips Color
Kinetics, featuring individually controllable white light LED nodes in a
durable, flexible form factor, which are four times brighter than those
in the original installation. The unique attributes of eW Flex Compact
allow low-profile, low-power, intelligent points of white light to be
installed across nearly any interior or exterior surface, making it an
ideal choice for The Bay Lights project. Dynamic capabilities of The Bay
Lights project are enabled by an underlying Ethernet-based data network,
in which each of the 25,000 controllable light points are linked for
simultaneous control. The installation is further enhanced by Philips
ActiveSite System, a cloud-based connected lighting platform that
affords remote diagnostics, reporting, data analytics and control for
efficient installations management.
“The re-lighting of the Bay Bridge is a testament to the impact of Leo
Villareal’s magnificent design on the San Francisco community,” said Amy
Huntington, President of Philips Lighting Americas. “Philips is proud to
be a part of the work by ILLUMINATE, Caltrans and Metropolitan
Transportation Commission to make this one-of-a-kind light structure a
permanent fixture over the San Francisco Bay.”
Overall, the project uses roughly 4.5 miles of cable and 75,000 LEDs to
create a monumental light canvas for Leo Villareal’s complex algorithms
and patterns, which dynamically recombine, transforming the bridge into
a living work of art.
“The original Bay Lights installation served as a major source of pride
in San Francisco and helped to increase tourism in the area,” said Saeed
Shahmirzai of Zoon Engineering, the Bay Bridge MEP Integrator. “Thanks
to advanced LED and system monitoring technology from Philips, we are
able to build on those benefits and install an energy-efficient work of
art that makes the Bay Bridge a true beacon of the San Francisco Bay
Area.”
About Royal Philips
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a diversified health and
well-being company, focused on improving people’s lives through
meaningful innovation in the areas of Healthcare, Consumer Lifestyle and
Lighting. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Philips posted 2014 sales of
EUR 21.4 billion and employs approximately 106,000 employees with sales
and services in more than 100 countries. The company is a leader in
cardiac care, acute care and home healthcare, energy efficient lighting
solutions and new lighting applications, as well as male shaving and
grooming and oral healthcare. News from Philips is located at www.philips.com/newscenter.
About Leo Villareal
Leo Villareal is known internationally for his light sculptures and
site-specific architectural works. His work focuses on stripping systems
down to their essence to better understand the underlying structures
governing how they work. He is interested in lowest common denominators
such as pixels, or the zeros and ones, in binary code. The visual
manifestation of the code in light is at the core of the artist's
interest.
Villareal’s recent exhibitions include a traveling survey organized by
the San Jose Museum of Art as well as a presentation of Cylinder II at
the Hayward Gallery in London, which is currently traveling to Auckland,
New Zealand; Sydney, Australia, and Sharjah, UAE. Recent works include
The Light Matrix at 1306 Market Street in Philadelphia, Buckyball,
Dallas at Northpark Center in Dallas and Volume (Renwick) at Renwick
Gallery in the Smithsonian in Washington DC.
His work is in the permanent collections of museums such as the
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; the Museum of Modern Art, New
York, NY; Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan; and the
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
About ILLUMINATE
ILLUMINATE aims to alter the arc of human history through the creation
of transformational works of public art. Its mission is to produce
contemporary art with civic impact, social activation and global reach
to stimulate a culture of generosity and collaboration. Illuminate
raised funds and produced both the original installation of The Bay
Lights in 2013 and the permanent reinstallation in 2016. It is
gifting The Bay Lights to the people of California so they will be
maintained by Caltrans and will lift the gaze and spirits of Bay Area
residents and visitors for generations to come.
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