With the 2012 European Football Championships a mere 11 days away, Philips Lighting has announced that the company will light the majority of football stadiums in the host countries, Ukraine and Poland, including the Olympic stadium of Kiev (NSC Olimpiyskiy).
Philips’ latest innovations are well suited to HDTV and contribute to enhancing the viewing experience for players, spectators and TV viewers. The installed Philips lighting includes pitch and façade lighting, illuminating six of the eight stadiums – Donbass Arena, Metalist stadium Kharkiv, Arena Lviv, Poznan City stadium, Municipal stadium Wroclaw and Kiev Olympic stadium.
Philips provided the Olympic stadium in Kiev, the largest stadium in Ukraine, able to host 60,000 spectators, with tailor made lighting systems. The system includes a total of 608 Philips ArenaVision sport floodlights. Philips designed the lighting concept combining functional and decorative solutions to create the effect of a ‘ring of fire’ on the stadium’s roof edge and performed lighting calculations and reconciled power and control systems. Next to that, Philips supervised the installation, including the targeting, commissioning works, lighting design measurements in cooperation with partner organisations.
Philips also lights technical and public areas. As a result, Philips floodlight equipment illuminates the football field, the racetracks and the sectors in accordance to FIFA, UEFA, GAISF/IAAF standards for TV broadcasting of football matches and athletic competitions.
The stadium in Poznan was the first arena completed in Poland to host this summer’s tournament, and is notable for its dynamic, coloured lighting of the outer facade, using LED lighting systems. A total of 195 Philips LED projectors, plus a control system and software, were used to illuminate the outer facade of the Poznan stadium, thereby enabling dynamic colour changes.
The LED projectors are durable (50,000 hours), but yet consume very little energy (the power of a single projector is just 55W). Using energy saving solutions in the project is in accordance with the policy of the city of Poznan, which for years has been consistently focusing on the environment and on sustainable development, for example as host of the COP 14 Climate Change Conference.
