Lighting choices are a critical component to parking safety best practices, but choosing appropriate lighting means juggling ROI, energy savings and reliability.
A vehicle pulls down the ramp, and the occupancy-based LED lighting advances with the vehicle as it moves forward into an eerily dark garage. The vehicle curves around a ramp as it moves to the floor below, passing an elevator vestibule, a stairwell entrance, and finally coming to rest after being parked at the far end of the garage.
The driver exits the car and walks toward the elevator vestibule, observing the previously illuminated path receding. As the person continues walking down the vehicle aisleway toward the elevator vestibule, the LED lights are malfunctioning — the respective LED array has partially failed, and the previous lumen output has decreased significantly. Lights on the path to the elevator vestibule do not activate, as the unmaintained motion sensors have become obfuscated by vehicle exhaust soot.