Intelligent Road Studs
SolarLite Series Studs
SolarLite F Series Flush Studs
Smart, safe and sustainable solar-powered road studs, proven to increase nighttime road safety. Providing a view of the road layout ahead in the driver’s natural line of vision and well beyond the headlight beam of a vehicle.
Features
- Surface or flush mounted active road studs providing up to 900m of visibility from high intensity LEDs
- Totally sustainable harnessing free solar energy from built-in solar panel
- Superior solar energy harvesting & storage electronics designed to maintain light outputs throughout a full annual cycle
- Use where street lighting is either unavailable, not cost-effective or environmentally not possible
- Ideal for all edge of carriageway applications
- Additional retro-reflectivity from prismatic corner cube reflectors
- Matrix type base to enhance the anchoring of the stud to the road surface
- Full range of colour options for all delineation use including amber, red, white or green
SolarLite S Series Surface Studs
Smart, safe and sustainable surface mounted solar road stud. Proven to increase nighttime road safety. Providing a view of the road layout ahead, in the driver’s natural line of vision, well beyond the headlight beam of a vehicle.
Benefits
- Superior distance visibility of road layout ahead compared to retro-reflective studs
- Reliable all night, all year round performance
- Lower lifetime costs than traditional road markings
- Long-lasting, carefree operation
- Maintains superior visibility even in poor weather conditions and on wet roads
- Decreases nighttime accidents by over 70%
- Allows additional reaction time to respond to changing road layouts
- Reduces erratic driving behaviour and smooths braking along winding roads
- Enhances driving experience, making drivers feel safer and more able to travel at night
- Highly impactful and politically visible contribution towards reducing road safety fears
- Effective additional driver safety tool when used in conjunction with street light reduction schemes
SolarLite Series General Information
Making do with sub-standard visibility on the road is a recipe for disaster, collisions and in the worst case scenario, fatalities.
Conventional “cat’s eye” retro-reflective studs have been around for decades and in that time, their performance has barely changed. They still rely on the effectiveness of the vehicle’s headlight beam to provide enough light at the right angle to reflect some of that light back at the driver to delineate the road ahead. At best, that headlight beam normally extends to about 90m.
SolarLite active road studs don’t have that same dependency. They don’t rely on the headlight beam of the vehicle at all. Instead, they actively deliver light output directly in the natural line of sight of the driver from high brightness LEDs in the stud. These LED road studs are powered by solar energy captured from natural sunlight by the in-built solar panel and stored in the stud’s internal battery. As a result of this active light output, they deliver 10 x greater visibility of the road layout ahead than the traditional retro-reflective road markings, giving drivers up to 900m visibility.
And this is proven to make a significant difference, reducing night-time road accidents by over 70%.
Let’s put that into perspective. A motorist driving at a speed of 100km/h (62mph) will see 90m of delineation from retro-reflective studs. This provides around 3.2 seconds to react to changes in the road ahead. With active road studs providing up to 900m visibility, reaction time available to the motorist is over 30 seconds. This provides plenty of time to take in and process information about possible hazards ahead and adjust your driving accordingly without needing to slam on the brakes.
Even in poor conditions (rain, fog or surface spray) where traditional retro-reflective studs and road markings are less visible, SolarLite studs continue to shine brightly, guiding you safely.
SolarLite road studs are more robust and durable than traditional road studs, meaning they’ve a lower overall lifetime cost than a retro-reflective road stud and better longevity.
Just a few hours of daylight will provide enough battery power to last days – more than enough to ensure the system operates all year round, whatever the weather and wherever the location in the world.
The SolarLite studs are fully Type Approved by the United Kingdom Department for Transport.
Whilst initially conceived for use on roads, their low profile makes the SolarLite active road studs perfect for use in a wide variety of additional applications such as pedestrian and cycle paths, on crosswalks, level crossings and railway platforms.
IRS2 Hardwired Studs
IRS2 Hardwired Intelligent Studs
Offering over 1,000m of sharp, defined delineation during the day and after dark, the IRS2 intelligent road studs are customisable, highly visible in-road lighting systems that increase lane discipline, reducing accidents and collisions at roundabouts, road intersections, crossings, crosswalks, bus interchanges, railway crossings and tunnels.
Features
- Up to 1000m visibility
- Modular design / upgradeable
- Programmable functionality
- Profile less than 4mm
- Integration with and activation by 3rd party traffic control devices
- Pedestrian, cycle and motorcycle friendly
- Switchable uni and bi-directional capability
- Superior visibility in poor weather conditions
Benefits
- Low maintenance and running costs, with low power consumption
- Increased road capacity and reduction in congestion when used with dynamic road marking schemes
- Proven to help reduce lane ‘drift’ on spiral roundabouts
- Highly visible and newsworthy contribution to road safety and traffic management
- Proven increase in safety at pedestrian, railway and tram crossings
- Heightened driver enjoyment of driving along the road
IRS2 General Information
The innovative and flexible design of the IRS2 intelligent road studs provides drivers with advance awareness of the road ahead, giving them more time to react accordingly.
Suitable for a wide range of applications from dynamic lane marking, tunnel delineation to pedestrian crossing systems, the revolutionary IRS2 intelligent road studs are effective in all lighting conditions, making them a clear choice when it comes to improving driver awareness and behaviour on our roads and offering a demonstrable impact on road safety.
A hardwired product, the IRS2 intelligent road studs are driven via mains power into an integrated controller unit that enables the product to be configured precisely to the user’s requirement, whether that be for timed use, or for providing constant or flashing light output.
When used in conjunction with road capacity and expansion schemes, dynamic lane marking using our IRS2 studs can increase highway capacity and reduce congestion.
The studs have been used to successfully delineate the Hindhead Tunnel in Surrey to guide motorists through the tunnel safely and allow switchable delineation between normal and contraflow running, resulting in quicker, smoother journey times for road users.
They have also been deployed at Sheriffhall roundabout in Edinburgh, where they are used to increase driver awareness and improve lane discipline on and off the roundabout.
The bi-directional studs can be switched between uni and bi-directional settings and can be specified with different colours in each direction.
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