The efficiency of cold storage units are essential to the cleanliness and food safety of any restaurant or supermarket. In many of these businesses however, this sanitation is ineffective due to faulty cold storage lighting. Fortunately, Relumination’s design for LED lighting solves these risks while saving the food industry money.
Many lights in cold storage units produce heat, compromising the necessary food temperatures. Restaurants will increase the use of air conditioning in an attempt to combat this. This is costly and does not guarantee that food will be kept within health code regulations. However, less than 10% of the energy used in Relumination’s LED lights is converted to heat. Unlike other lights, Relumination’s LED lights stay cool, maintaining the temperature in cold storage and saving money on air conditioning.
Another fault of many cold storage lighting systems is that they are operated with a light switch. This may seem like a insignificant factor but it can actually be a major health concern. For instance, in a restaurant, workers prepare various raw and cooked ingredients. They rush in and out of the cold storage, flicking on and off that light switch as they go. The many hands touching that same light switch with various ingredients and even cleaning chemicals creates a huge health hazard. Yes, the lights in the cold storage could be left on during the entire work day but again, it is costly. Not only on the electric bill, but if they are heat producing lights, as mentioned above, on the air conditioning bill as well.
Relumination, of course has a solution. Relumination offers lights controlled by motion sensors. This means that as soon as a worker walks into the cold storage, the lights turn on. These motion sensor LED lights also have a feature called, “Instant On.” Unlike most motion sensor l ights that need time to warm up, Relumination LED lights instantly turn on to the full power with dimming options.
Finally, Relumination LED lights are durable and are not made of glass. So if a light is dropped in the cold storage, there is no messy or dangerous clean up near or in the food.
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