Empire State Building in a sea of ​​light

Empire State Building in a sea of ​​light

COLOR KINETICS

The world's most famous office building, the Empire State Building (ESB), has decided to modernize the tower lighting and has chosen to work with the leader in the LED industry, Philips. They have opted for the innovative, intelligent LED lighting solution from Philips Color Kinetics (PCK). These were already installed in May, but they have decided to reveal the no less than 1200 computer-controlled lights.

ALICIA KEYS

Last Monday, in collaboration with Clear Channel Media and Entertainment and 14-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys, a gift was presented to New York City and the world through the unveiling of ESB's new one-of-a-kind LED tower lighting with the very first light show. At 9 p.m. Alicia Keys was allowed to switch the switch to start the light show, this happened live in the studio of Clear Channel Media. The lighting was synchronized with 2 songs from her new album.

STATE OF THE ART

The state-of-the-art dynamic lighting system from PCK is unique to ESB and makes it possible to create a customized light show and they can choose from a palette of more than 16 million colors that can be programmed and adjusted in limitless combinations, such as ripples, cross-fades, sparkle rings, chasers, sweeps, flashes and bursting. In addition to more lighting control and management, the new automated system will deliver superior light and liveliness in real time, unlike the previous spotlight.

6 MEN

These 1200 new lamps replace the old 546 lamps that the tower used to light up. These new lamps provide a saving of no less than 70% in electricity. In addition, with the old lamps, 6 men were busy all day long to change the various color filters by hand to provide the skyscraper with a different color against the night sky.

34,000

The innovative, intelligent LED lighting solution from Philips Color Kinetics is already being used by more than 34,000 transformative, high-profile installations around the world. Now the expertise has been used to make the Empire State Building well-known lighting system more flexible, more dynamic and more dramatic than ever before.

LED STRIPS

The  LED strips from Ledlampendirect display many colors thanks to their 30 pieces of 5050RGB SMD per meter and that with a consumption of only 7.2 Watts per meter. The LED Strips can easily be shortened by 10 centimeters, are waterproof thanks to a crystal-clear epoxy with a silicone coating, IP68. For easy mounting of this LED strip, a double-sided adhesive strip is supplied. The SMD LEDs are mounted on a white strip for the optimum light display.

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