The Pan American Games Lima 2019 will be illuminated with Schréder technology

The Belgian company Schréder will supply and install the lighting towers and Led reflectors of several venues where the Pan American Games will be held. The assembly will integrate a total of 912 OMNIblast luminaires 1 and 164 OMNIflood 3.

The Pan American Games are the second most important sporting event on the Olympic circuit and the third worldwide, after the World Cup, attracting an approximate audience of one billion viewers. Hence the importance and care that the organizers of File 2019 they are giving every detail in terms of infrastructure and, especially, to lighting, that this time will allow an experience never seen before in Peru, both in sports venues, as for those who witness this event on HD television.

This event, which will take place between the 26 of July and the 11 August, will bring together about 6.700 elite athletes, who will compete in 39 sports and 62 Disciplines, day and night.

The organization has just awarded the tender for 'Design', Supply and Installation of Sports Lighting System in the Andrés Avelino Cáceres Sports Complex in the Villa María del Triunfo district – Lima – Peru', to the Belgian multinational Schréder. Company that has already illuminated several stadiums of the World Cup in South Africa 2010 and Brazil 2014, Euro Poland-Ukraine 2012 and the Olympic Games 2016, such as the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban, Maracana, Kiev Olympic, Warsaw National, Mineirao and Arena das Dunas in Natal, among others.

Schréder will supply and install the lighting towers and Led reflectors for different sports fields. The works will begin in December and will integrate the assembly of a total 912 OMNIblast luminaires 1 and 164 OMNIflood 3.

These luminaires have a colour rendering index (CRI) of 90, measure of the ability of a light source to faithfully reproduce the colors of various objects compared to a natural or ideal light source. This is a range that ensures the high level of color reproduction for optimal HD TV transmission, and ideal lighting for high competition sports. The highest CRI is equal to 100.

On the other hand, these luminaires have a TLCI index (Television Lighting Consistency Index) greater than 80 and they find themselves free of the flicker effect, that could be appreciated when viewing images in slow motion or slow motion.

Both in the stadium and on television, the level of detail of each movement or object improves significantly, with which the viewer will live an optimal experience, better understanding what happens in each sports instance.

This technology also complies with the strictest international standards and allows energy savings of more than 50%, improving lighting levels, safety for athletes and taking care of the environment.

Goodbye to blackouts

In addition, Led technology avoids long waits in the face of a blackout. "The traditional technology that many stages have today known as discharge or HID have electric gas or metal halide discharge lamps., generating light by passing electric current through a gas. In a metal halide lamp, the compact tube where the arc is formed contains a mixture of argon, mercury and a variety of metal halides. The heat generated by the electric arc vaporizes these elements, producing light as temperature and pressure increase. So, it is a process in which the lamps intensify the flow of lighting as the minutes pass", says Diego Royo, CEO of Schréder Peru.

This professional explains that on the contrary, "the Led, or electro luminescent diode, is able to emit light by receiving an electric current almost instantaneously. And what's better, controlled from a dashboard or mobile device, being much more flexible in its control. So, LED technology puts an end to waits for blackouts, as we suffered in the past".

Schréder will also be responsible for supplying and installing lighting towers in various sports fields: baseball (7 towers of 32 meters and one of 40 metre), softball for competition (6 towers of 28 metre ); softball for training (6 towers of 21 metre); rugby for competition and training (6 towers of 30 metre); hockey for competition and training (6 towers of 30 metre), Basque pelota for competition (2 towers of 16 metre), Basque pelota for warm-up (2 towers of 14 metre), pediment for competition and training (4 towers of 10 metre), futsal (26 towers of 10 metre), and tennis (6 towers of 10 metre).

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