We specialize in the manufacture of solar powered illumination and solar power solutions for the transit and outdoor advertising industries. Can't get power? Is trenching too expensive? Looking to optimize your company's carbon footprint?
Today, customers are looking for alternatives to the "solar on a stick" solutions available in the past. As new cutting edge technologies are developed, we are able to deliver a broader range of customized solar lighting solutions.
Solar Lighting for Transit
Urban Solar offers a variety of standard and custom solar powered LED lighting solutions. Our PV-Shelter and PV-Stop offer unique and innovative solutions for bus shelter and street furniture area lighting requirements. Whether your transit shelters have a flat, peaked or barrel roof design? We have a solution to fit your bus shelter design.
Autonomous, Standalone Solar Powered Systems
We have a whole suite of RMS Series solar power systems with various control options to meet almost any need.
Low Level Landscape Lighting Applications
Our PLB Series of solar powered LED bollards are an ideal choice for low level architectural and commercial pathway and landscape lighting applications.
The PV-Shelter is a stand alone solar powered LED lighting systems for transit courtesy or advertising paneled shelters and street furniture applications.
PV-Shelter transit lighting benefits:
With Urban Solar's customer focused design, the PV-Shelter can be tailored to meet any municipal or transit authority's requirements.
Autonomous, stand alone solar powered system to meet a variety of urban power application requirements. .
Applications Include:
Urban Solar offers various controller options within the RMS Series Solar Engines. Standard load and lighting controllers are available in addition to more robust lighting controllers such as Urban Solar’s Energy Control Module (ECM). The ECM offers users the ability to have varied lighting profiles depending on local site and load conditions.
Providing intelligent control with superior technology and aesthetic design, the PV-Stop delivers safe and environmentally friendly lighting for any transit lighting application.
PV-Stop transit lighting benefits:
Designed specifically for the transit industry, the PV-Stop can be tailored to meet local transit authority requirements. The PV-Stop can be integrated with your current bus stop pole or be adapted to almost any new pole.
Ideal solar choice for low level architectural and commercial pathway and landscape lighting applications.
Utilizing solar power and LED lighting the PLB bollards are fully self contained and offer significant benefits over typical wired bollards:
The performance of the PLB Series Solar LED Bollard is maximised through the use of proprietary Energy Management System (EMS) technology that allows the luminaire to function in harmony with its environment.
Energy Control Module (ECM)
Urban Solar has developed an intuitive controller for solar powered charging and light control. The Energy Control Module or ECM has been developed and refined after years of research and development along with rigorous field testing.
ECM is a special algorithm designed and patented (pending filing) by Urban Solar Corp. that enables its software to automatically adjust LED (light emitting diode) intensity and duration according to prevailing solar and weather conditions. ECM dramatically extends the reliability of the solar lighting in areas of higher latitude or during harsh winter or otherwise low-sunlight conditions by automatically adjusting the on time duration and or reducing LED light levels after assessing battery level and prevailing sunlight charging conditions.
ECM is also proactive. Traditionally stand alone solar power systems are sized for the worst period of the year in order to power the required load or lighting profile (illumination intensity and duration). As such, during the majority of the year, most of the solar available is wasted as the solar insolation or site charging conditions improve and the dusk to dawn period decreases. In a given application, when an abundance of solar exists, ECM will deliver the maximum illumination level based on variables such as available solar panel power and local geographic solar charging conditions.
Urban Solar's ECM also offers features such as temperature control, in field adjustment and data download capabilities. With this full suite of intuitive controls the ECM can meet almost any solar illumination specification through superior technology and un-matched reliability.
Light Emitting Diodes (LED)
A light-emitting-diode (LED) is a semiconductor diode that emits light when an electric current is applied in the forward direction of the device, as in the simple LED circuit. The effect is a form of electroluminescence where incoherent and narrow-spectrum light is emitted from the p-n junction in a solid state material.
LEDs are widely used as indicator lights on electronic devices and increasingly in higher power applications such as flashlights and area lighting. An LED is usually a small area (less than 1 mm2) light source, often with optics added directly on top of the chip to shape its radiation pattern and assist in reflection. The colour of the emitted light depends on the composition and condition of the semiconducting material used, and can be infrared, visible, or ultraviolet.
Solar Power (Photovoltic)
A solar cell or photovoltaic cell is a large area electronic device that converts solar energy into electricity by the photovoltaic effect. Photovoltaics the field of technology and research related to the application of solar cells for solar energy. Sometimes the term solar cell is reserved for devices intended specifically to capture energy from sunlight, while the term photovoltaic cell is used when the source is unspecified. Assemblies of cells are used to make solar modules, or photovoltaic arrays.
