Improving our power consumption through better signs

Published by admin on October 22, 2010

As we begin to roll into the 21st century, we are seeing more demands for energy and some of the effects on our global climate that is coming with these increased demands. In order to preserve our normal way of life on this planet (according to most experts) we must find better and smarter ways to use our energy. Sometimes the smallest changes in an household or a business can make a huge difference on the bigger picture and the amount of energy we can save on a daily basis. Our exit and directional signs are not something we think of consuming a lot of energy each day and they do use very little. The sign making process is now including more energy efficient ways in which to reduce the overall power consumption. However, if we could find ways to use less energy on these signs, we could see significant decreases in our energy-use if we started applying this to all exit signs.

The first logical step we could start with is not hooking any electricity or energy to these signs. This might be fine for our daylight hours, but our everyday signs would not be visible at night or perhaps even on cloudy days. This would create safety hazards and really isn’t an option. We must illuminate these signs in areas that are dark. An exit sign needs to be clearly visible and could be seen at night as easy as it could be seen during the daytime hours. Steps are already underway that are keeping our exit signs visible and using less energy than our exit signs of yesterday were using.