SYNOPSIS

Historically, two complementary measures of road lighting system performance have been employed: illuminance, or the amount of light from luminaires incident upon a given surface of interest, and luminance, or the amount of reflected light returned to the driver’s eye from the surface of interest.

The right method of measurement and calculation ( MS 825: 2007) need to be implemented as the technology and standard have developed to ensure the road lighting design is towards safety, energy-efficiency and economics.
A good lighting will create a comfortable visual environment that will enable people to see, move about safely and perform visual tasks efficiently, accurately and safely without causing undue visual fatigue and discomfort. The authorities, engineers and stakeholders appreciate that road lighting plays an important role in human visual capabilities, ensure comfort and create appropriate lighting conditions. The most important criterion in road lighting is actually to audit and apply the method of measurement and calculation in a practical condition site. International standards such as CIE 140 2000 and BS EN 13201 have been well established on this requirement. The MS 825, Part 6 has also been adopted and published. There are many manufacturers and traders in the field of lighting. With the rapid development of LED lighting, players are now focusing on Road Lighting with LED as a new light source.


BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Mr. Siew Choon Thye graduated and has a background in Electrical Engineering from The Charted Institute of Marketing (CIM) and the Institute Lighting Engineer (ILE) from United Kingdom. He has been active in the area of lighting for over 18 years. His activities primarily include Lighting Design Application, Lighting Product Development , Electrical Engineering and installation of various types of lighting applications such as stadiums, golf courses, ports, architectural facades and public street lighting. He has experience in the lighting engineering, design & development with GE Lighting USA, Philips and Gruppe –Italy.
Mr. Siew is actively and deeply involved in the Malaysia government standards development and activities related to lighting. He is the Chairman of MyCIE (Malaysia National Council on Illumination) and Council Member of TEEAM – (The Electrical and Electronics Association of Malaysia.) He is also involved in writing the standards for:

–    SIRIM (Technical Committee Lighting )    – Department of Standards Malaysia
–    SIRIM (Working Group on MS Standard) – for Street and Tunnel Lighting
–    SIRIM (Working Group on MS Standard) – for LED Light & Lighting
–    SIRIM (Working Group on MS Standard) – for Energy Efficient for Building Management.