Are you a business owner searching for the perfect commercial exterior lighting for your building? We know it can feel overwhelming, but you are not alone! Not only do you have to find certified, safe, and durable lighting products that will increase your business’s visibility, but you also have to find lighting that will meet all light regulations in your area.
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Getting Safe and Durable Commercial Exterior Lighting
Commercial exterior lighting standards ensure the safety of your building’s employees and customers. Below are a few things to look out for when selecting your lights.
Testing and Certification
You can check for a certification stamp to know if a light is safe. This stamp shows that the product has been tested and meets safety standards. Some of the most common light certifications are ETL [Electrical Testing Laboratories] and UL [Underwriter Laboratories].
These laboratories focus on testing a light’s performance and safety. Every product and manufacturing facility undergoes comprehensive testing to ensure they are safe to use and won’t create hazards like electrical shocks or fires.
This testing includes electrical safety, thermal performance, mechanical durability, and others, depending on the product type and relevant standards.
Weather Resistance Testing
During ETL and UL product testing, lighting systems undergo weather resistance testing that includes temperature changes, UV rays, wind, rain, and storms. This is to ensure that all the lights are working properly and safely in any type of weather to prevent electro-shocking, fires, and property damage.
Gemstone Lights are completely waterproof and weatherproof and can last up to 23 years! With them, you can be confident that your commercial building will be protected, no matter the weather.
Versatile Light Placement
Regulation boards like OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) require entryways, pathways, staircases, loading docks, and other areas to always be illuminated. We can customize our versatile products to illuminate any space, indoors or outdoors.
All of our commercial exterior lighting brightness can be easily adjusted in each area to meet IES (Illuminating Engineering Society) recommended lighting levels, all from the convenience of your phone.
Smart Light Automation
Certain regulations, like California Title 24, require daylight controls for commercial exterior lighting to reduce lights’ unnecessary use. With Gemstone Lights, you can set automatic timers to turn lights on at specific times and off after a specific amount of time or set an automatic sunset-to-sunrise timer through the Gemstone Lights App.
Trusted and Certified Gemstone Light Installations
Gemstone Lights is North America’s largest distributor of certified smart track lighting. Our lights are tested and certified with ETL or UL and comply with all safety standards.
Each of our authorized dealerships is vetted and trained to ensure all lighting installations are completed safely, professionally, and aesthetically pleasingly while being aware of commercial exterior lighting standards in your area.
Read “Gemstone Lights Installation Process: What to Expect” to learn more about the Gemstone Lights Installation Process for our track and landscape lights.
There are many ways commercial exterior lighting can be used indoors or outdoors in a commercial setting.
Our lighting products can be customized to help you follow lighting standards in your area, such as OSHA and ANSI (American National Standards Institute), regarding the brightness of outdoor and indoor lighting, safety features, wiring, grounding, and light placement.
Here are a few commercial exterior lighting options we offer and how they can be used.
Types of Gemstone Lights Commercial Exterior Lighting
Landscape Flood Lighting
Our landscape flood lighting can be securely pegged with the wires hidden in the ground while providing an uplighting effect. With the ability to produce up to 768 lumens with full brightness adjustability, this brightness can be tailored to meet any brightness standards your area may have.
You can use flood lights to keep your driveways, signs, field maintenance areas, evacuation areas, and pathways well-lit, reducing the risk of falls from unlit spaces or exposed wires.
Commercial Track Lighting
Our commercial track lighting can be customized to meet local commercial lighting standards while benefiting your company.
We offer 16 different track styles, available in over 150 different colors. Each type can create a different lighting effect and be used to blend with your building’s architectural features.
Our lights are installed to seamlessly blend into your building with no exposed wires, keeping each light installation aligned with any aesthetic regulations your company may have to follow.
Our track lighting system operates at 46 lumens per light and 60-100 lumens per foot at maximum brightness but can be decreased through the Gemstone Lights App to meet any brightness standards in your area.
Here are a few options we offer and how they can be used on your commercial building:
Customized Industrial Grade Track
Our Commercial Customized Industrial Grade Track is designed to be installed as a side-mount application, ideal for buildings without roof overhangs. We engineered this track to have the lights shine at a 20-degree angle, making the lights and the building more visible from far distances.
This track lighting ensures entranceways and walkways are well-lit during the night. Brightness and still patterns can be customized to follow any commercial lighting standards in your area.
Other tracks like the U-Channel Track or Hat Track are available if your area has stricter light pollution standards regarding light spilling.
U-Channel Track
Our U-Channel Track is a great track option if you want low-profile lighting for tight spaces, and works great for indoor lighting. This versatile track lighting can be installed virtually anywhere, providing a downlighting effect.
It allows you to focus the light exactly where needed, with adjustable brightness to reduce outdoor light pollution while ensuring a safe and well-lit environment.
Hat Track
A Hat Track is a type of commercial exterior lighting that is permanently fastened between the soffit and fascia with a color-matched screw. It creates a downlight effect, which prevents light from spilling outward.
This ensures that entryways and building perimeters are well-lit while reducing the risk of light pollution.
Environmental-Friendly Commercial Exterior Lighting
Energy-efficient lighting is a great way to help the environment and save on electricity costs.
Gemstone Lights are not only energy efficient, but our products are long-lasting. Each bulb is certified and rated to last 50,000 hours, adding up to 23 years. Our low-voltage lighting uses a maximum of 1 watt per bulb per hour, which can be reduced by the pattern you select.
5 Ways You Can Customize Your Commercial Exterior Lighting to Be Dark Sky Compliant
Too often, buildings can be overlit, and lights are left on longer than necessary, contributing to increased light pollution. Darksky and the Illuminating Engineering Society have published “Five Lighting Principles for Responsible Outdoor Lighting.”
Even though Gemstone Lights is not certified under these districts, you can customize your lights through our Gemstone Lights App to follow any other guidelines in your residence.
1. Use Light Only as Needed
All artificial light should serve a purpose. You can customize your lights to purposefully illuminate a walkway, an entrance, or a dark space.
2. Direct Light So It Falls Only Where It Is Needed
If you choose to get a Hat Track installed, the lights provide a downlighting effect so the light will not spread to other areas unnecessarily.
3. Light Should Be No Brighter Than Necessary
You can completely adjust the brightness of your Gemstone Lights from 0-100%, allowing you to have the lights at the lowest brightness necessary.
4. Have Smart Controlled Lighting
With Gemstone Lights, you can set up to 64 timers per building. In these timers, you can select specific light patterns to go on and off on particular calendar days and times so that your lights are only on when necessary.
5. Use a Warm White Light
We are widely known for our true warm white light (2,800K to 3,000K), which creates an enchanting ambiance and has no blue tones, making your lights use the least energy and light necessary.
FAQ
Question: What is the difference between certified and non-certified products?
Answer: Certified products have undergone multiple types of testing to ensure you are getting high-quality, safe, and durable products. Non-certified products are usually cheaper but have been tested for safety and efficacy. This increases the risk of electrical fires, product failure, and shorter product lifespan. You can identify a certified product by the UL or ETL stamp on the product.
Question: What other smart features are available with Gemstone Lights?
Answer: In addition to automatic timers and full brightness adjustability, you can customize your lights with over 16 million different colors and 20 animations, set specific color palettes for your brand choosing from over 16 million colors, choose from thousands of premade patterns, have multi-property management, and have many more smart features.
Question: Are Gemstone Lights customizable to any commercial exterior lighting standard?
Answer: Virtually every aspect of Gemstone Lights can be customized, from the light installation to light emission, to fit your company’s indoor or exterior commercial lighting needs. We recommend requesting a free quote from one of our authorized dealers to help you understand how this can be done for your building. They will create a plan and guide you on how we can customize the lights to comply with standards and regulations specific to your area.
Smart Commercial Exterior Lighting
At Gemstone Lights, we offer various lighting products that can be used inside and outside to enlighten your space while boosting brand recognition. Our smart lights are certified, tested, and built to work correctly and effectively at all times.
We are always available to help with our customer service team if necessary. You can control your lights through an iPhone or Android through our Gemstone Lights App and from anywhere in the world.
Connect with an authorized dealership familiar with local standards and regulations to learn how we can customize Gemstone Lights to match your company’s needs.
Request a FREE quote today!