Palerm & Tabares de Nava architects with MCI Group and LEDsCONTROL, developed the LED lighting system for the road Barranco de Santos in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Island).

This project involved the illumination with LED technology of the interior parts of the walls of the roads, which lead from the city center of Santa Cruz de Tenerife to the beach front. There was no need to have street lamps all along the road.

The R&D staff of MCI Group proposed to use a LED fixture to be placed inside 536 galvanized iron fences which measured 292cm long, 76cm high and 20cm thick. These galvanized iron fences run along the approximately 3km long road, they form the boundary between the vehicle traffic side and the pedestrian traffic side.
On the vehicle traffic side, the LED fixture in white colour served the function of guidance and safety for the vehicles. On the pedestrian traffic side, the LED fixture in colour changing RGB served as decorative lighting for the pedestrian walkway.



In order to ensure reliable data signal transmission along the whole 3 kilometer road length, the MCI's staff utilized special fiber optics lines which are ten times faster than the normal Belden cables, these cables work in conjunction with our CPU with DMX512A protocol installed inside the IP rated box.
Furthermore, special electronic designs were used inside the PCB board of both LED fixtures, the models LedFloodStrip White (80 LEDs/m) and LedFloodStrip RGB (90 LEDs/m).

Vehicle traffic side:
4 tubes of 134cm LedFloodStrip with 105 White Super Flux LEDs with aluminum cable channels.
Pedestrian traffic side:
2 tubes of 134cm LedFloodStrip with 120 FULL COLOUR RGB LEDs.

In order to fix the LED fixture securely into the galvanized iron walls, special end caps had to be constructed with precise laser cutting, and with special anchors for easy mounting.



TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS

536 fences
2.144 LedFloodStrip of 134 cm in white
56.280 White LEDs
Total consumption of white LED fixtures: 23,584 W

1.072 Ledfloodstrips of 134 cm in RGB
64.320 RGB LEDs
Total consumption of RGB LED fixtures: 33,96 kW

A total of 120.600 LEDs
Total consumption: 57,544 W