Sentry Electric's Central Park LED Luminaire Wins 2013 Product Innovation Award

Online, March 22, 2013 (Newswire.com) - Sentry Electric's Central Park LED luminaire has been selected by Architectural SSL Magazine for a 2013 Product Innovation Award. The Central Park LED luminaire evokes the historical theme of New York's famed Central Park while delivering the benefits associated with solid state lighting technology. Most notably, users will realize a reduction in energy consumption, maintenance, downtime, and various costs associated with today's sustainable initiatives.

The Central Park luminaire, winner of a design competition conducted by the Central Park Conservancy, is the original product around which the industry bases its similarly designed products. The LED version utilizes the SPR reflector system to provide comfortable, pleasing, indirect light. The LED module is Zhaga-compliant, which enables interchangeability with multiple light source manufacturers and facilitates future upgrades. Several luminaire configurations are DLC qualified, enabling compliance with energy efficiency incentive programs.

To upgrade previously installed Central Park luminaires that utilize traditional HID lamps, Sentry Electric offers an LED retrofit kit. A unitized top assembly and center column assembly replace existing HID systems to achieve long-lasting cost reductions along with a highly performing lighting solution. Use of the retrofit kit simplifies the installation process, reduces costs, and minimizes potential disruption to pedestrian or vehicular traffic.

The Judging Process:
Winners were chosen in fifteen individual product categories by a panel of judges who hail from all walks in the lighting industry. Product scoring was accomplished utilizing a simple 1 to 10 scale for a variety of attributes such as technical merit and replacement policies. The judges' subjective comments were an additional component of product scoring. Sentry Electric's award was in the category for decorative street/area lighting.