Bay Bridge lights installation: Phoenix Contact and Kapsch
In partnership with leading system integrator Kapsch TrafficCom, Phoenix Contact helped to orchestrate the automation of the spectacular lights installation adorning San Francisco's Bay Bridge. The Bay Lights is a light sculpture featuring more than 25,000 twinkling LEDs, cited as one of the keys in reinvigorating tourism and nightlife at the San Francisco waterfront.
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Every night in San Francisco, hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of people enjoy a spectacular display of light along the city’s famous Bay Bridge. The Bay Lights installation is a light sculpture featuring more than 25,000 twinkling LEDs. The show has been cited as one of the keys in reinvigorating tourism and nightlife at the San Francisco waterfront. Originally, Bay Lights was planned as a temporary installation; but became a permanent display due to popularity. Making sure that the show goes on each night lies technology from Kapsch and Phoenix Contact, who worked together to provide the network infrastructure and electrical hardware that automate the light display.
[Ray Cooper] “Kapsch got involved in this project because we had already been working on a project on the new East Span. As a group of contractors, we were invited to look at the design for the new Bay Lights.”
[Narrator] Kapsch TrafficCom is a leading system integrator in the Traffic Management, Water/Wastewater, and Tolling industries, and has worked on many projects with complicated networks.
[Cooper] “So, some of the installations across North America, we had a lot of the bridges in the bay area, Devil’s Slide Tunnel. On the East Coast- George Washington Bridge, Lincoln and Holland Tunnels. Kapsch is very experienced in network design, through various projects with highway traffic management, SCADA across the country. So, we brought that to bear on this project. Kapsch, being local to the Bay Area, we were in a perfect position to work on this project. Again both already working on the new East span of the Bay Bridge, and then our extensive experience in the industry, allowed us to provide much-valued engineering for the project as well.”
[Narrator] For the hardware within the control cabinet, Kapsch turned to one of its longtime partners, Phoenix Contact.
[Cooper] “So, we chose to partner with Phoenix Contact on the project, because we’ve done a lot of work with Phoenix Contact over the years, and it’s been successful projects for us. And, to be honest, Phoenix Contact’s customer support is unmatched. This project included network switches, routers, power supplies, circuit breakers, protective devices.”
[Dick March] “Starting out, we were a component supplier to Kapsch. We really didn’t fully understand the industry as it is right now, and what Kapsch does. But my engagement, being involved with their project development, and end-user markets; I’ve learned quickly the value that Kapsch has, and what we had to do to step up to the plate to bring them more value than just a supplier. We provide engineering support, field service support, design support, and also customer engagement.”
[Narrator] To learn more, visit phoenixcontact.com/transportationinfrastructure, or kapsch.net.
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