The Councillor of Tourism of the Municipality of Lorca, Francisco Montiel, reported that part of the wall surrounding the castle will be illuminated with an investment of EUR 343,125.34 from the Plan to Promote Tourism Product Lorca.
It is completely renovate the exterior lighting of the Wall and the Castle of Lorca, in the Product Plan to Promote Tourism Lorca promoted by the Municipality.
Montiel said that "this action is framed within which are being made to improve the tourism product Lorca Taller del Tiempo and star element" La Fortaleza del Sol "in the Castle.
The site where it will act is the Castillo de Lorca, listed as BIC (Cultural Property) and situated in the Sierra del Caño, near the place called Pylons.
The area occupied by the walled Lorca Castle is approximately 52,000 square meters of which 30,000 are part of the thematic terrain of the Fortress of the Sun managed by Lorca Taller del Tiempo.
Of the total of 1,426 meters in perimeter walls, exist today lit a total of 517 meters and is intended to extend to 1,145 meters. "
Councilman of Tourism has stated that this is a stretch of wall "belonging to the medieval period, namely the stage of Islamic rule in our city.
We are talking about the twelfth century, although it should be noted that this building has been undergoing modifications and repairs to the nineteenth century. "
The City Council has indicated that it is intended to change the existing lighting a new one, that raise safety and energy saving systems more appropriate.
Councilman Tourism has detailed that this new system allows a saving of approximately 40 minutes of power per day, representing 6.5% of total operating hours and annual savings of around 30%.
Technical Specifications
The remote management system in place provides the ability to "talk" through every closet server located anywhere regardless of distance, therefore, allows us to know at any moment the status of each cabinet and lamps that have associated.
Design allows lighting circuits, groups of lamps, by software, so anytime we can modify or adapt to any level of lighting we want from the control center without changing the physical installation.
Set the on / off based on standard solar curve exact coordinates of the city and making the desired decalage through astronomical 6 programs on and off, enabling greater energy savings.
The system is fully integrated to any existing plant and also facilitates the installation of bi-level ballast at each point of light, no need to be drawing lines of command to the table.
The system can be associated with other analog measuring devices, such as a weather station or power meters.
The individual control of each point provides information on the operational status and impact of each one, very valuable for the efficient management of maintenance and therefore ensure a higher quality of service and security lighting.
This individual control and prior knowledge of the type of damage, facilitates the use to the limit of life of each component, generating less waste and better managing our environment well.
The system architecture with a dedicated server exclusively, ensures high reliability and robustness.
The system facilitates the individual parameters of each control panel allows optimum management of operating time at full and reduced power of each lamp, generating greater savings.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca