Diseño del sistema de alumbrado público perteneciente al Malecón del Balneario Atacames, provincia de Esmeraldas

Abstract

This technical report addresses the efficient design of the public lighting for the pier of Atacames. At present, this pier is equipped with street lights, lamps, and transformers that are obsolete due to the time they have been used and lack of maintenance. Each one of these objects is exposed to an environment with salinity levels that affect their decomposition in an accelerated way. For this reason, the present work concerns the improvement of the appearance of this area of the city. While working on the design for a new look for the pier of Atacames, public lighting was emphasized to make it more attractive to pedestrians and drivers given the fact that many cars transit this area. For this reason a new uniformity factor, environmental interactions (SR) and a glare rating according to the standards, and a better average lux level were achieved. To evaluate the changes in the uniformity factor in more detail, three scenarios were considered. The base scenario was a simulation of the existing public lighting. For the second scenario, a change of lamps was considered, i.e., sodium lamps were changed for their LED equivalent without relocating the street lights. In the third and last scenario, the design followed the guidelines established by two institutions. The first set of guidelines taken into account corresponds to the standards of Electric Company Quito (EEQ). The local distribution system in the city of Atacames follows the regulations of the capital city in the same way as other distributions systems do for the reason that this standard includes some items that are not specified in the local systems. In the same way, the design takes into account the INEN standard, which establishes that the elements and equipment that are part of the public lighting must satisfy specific quality levels of light energy.