Philips CosmoPolis Urban Lighting User Manual

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CosmoPolis

The foundations of change

With CosmoPolis, Philips presents to you another major step forward in urban lighting,
developed specifically to build on these foundations, and also to meet the challenges you
face in the 21st century. CosmoPolis simplifies lamp selection for you with a family of two
matching miniaturised lamps, CosmoWhite and CosmoGold, and two optimised electronic
gear systems.The cost-cutting and performance benefits of CosmoPolis are impressive:

• Extremely high system energy efficiency, cutting energy consumption by 10% compared
with SON, 30% compared with MASTER Colour and up to 150% compared with HPL.

• Improved optical performance, thanks to optimal burner aspect ratio and positioning,
and new locking base design.

• Miniaturisation - lamps are 65% smaller than SON/HPL and gear 50% smaller;
to provide unprecedented freedom in the design of optics and luminaires.

• Longer service life than CDM-T lamps, and better lumen maintenance than
CDO-TT or HPL lamps.

• Reliable outdoor dedicated electronic gear, guaranteed for five years, saves energy
and future-proofs installations for developments in centralised light control.

• Environmentally friendly - a Green Flagship product to minimise environmental impact,
and CO emission.

With CosmoPolis, the benefits you experience from using Philips’ advanced outdoor
HID lamps are more impressive than ever.

CosmoPolis - Building on the foundations

Philips’ invention of the low-pressure sodium (SOX) lamp and linear fluorescent
lamp in the 1930’s laid the foundations for today’s outdoor lighting.Though in the
1960’s the favoured light sources became SON and HPL, the benefits remained
the same: the team of white and gold lamps met your perceived needs for
inexpensive white light where light quality mattered, and unbelievably low
ownership costs where it did not.

Change

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Lamp choice is now a simple matter ­CosmoWhite or CosmoGold

• Low ownership costs reduce pressure on lighting budgets.This liberates cash for
investment in urban renewal schemes involving white light.

• Off-axis visibility is not needed on major roads. In fact, it can be a distraction.

• The warmth of masonry such as sandstone is enhanced with golden light.Also, you can
use white and gold together in floodlighting schemes to display architectural features
by colour contrast.

• Golden light can act as a signpost. Routes through city centres lit with CosmoGold
stand out clearly if surrounding areas are lit with CosmoWhite.

• CosmoGold is kind to the elderly. Old people with yellowing corneas may actually
see better by its light.

Economical CosmoGold has an essential role to play in your road and floodlighting.

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CosmoGoldCosmoWhite

With its white light, CosmoWhite improves the appearance of buildings, parks
and the people who visit them.There is growing evidence that it also makes areas
of mixed pedestrian and road traffic a safer place to be.

CosmoWhite CosmoGold

The trends are to:

• Energy efficiency and long, reliable service lives, not only to reduce your lighting
ownership costs but also to comply with new environmental pressures.

• Improved security and ambience to attract people back into your city centres at night.

• Miniaturisation, to permit unobtrusive lighting and exciting new luminaire designs.

Improved safety

• White light improves the visibility of objects and people at the sides of your vision. For a
motorist this for example means a better chance of spotting potential hazards on footpaths,
cycle lanes and at park entrances.

White light appears brighter than golden light at the same measured illuminance

• This is due to two factors: the eye’s increased sensitivity to white light at low light levels,
and improved colour contrast from better colour rendering. Because you see better,
you are less likely to have accidents.

White light is socially attractive

• White light gives you a better sense of safety due to the ability to see objects and facial

features clearly in bright, colourful surroundings.This makes you more inclined to socialise.

CosmoPolis meets your current outdoor lighting needs.