Lighting | SICE

Ever since its foundation in 1921, Sociedad Ibérica de Construcciones Eléctricas (SICE), has been dedicated to researching, supplying and maintaining essential materials to cover public lighting requirements in each city. Throughout its history SICE has installed and maintained lighting in small and major cities, as well as for transport infrastructure and ornamental lighting.

From lighting with incandescent lamps at the beginning of the 20th century to modern systems based on LED devices, the technology used by SICE has evolved and each installation is adapted to customer requirements.

All different aspects, such as lighting options, efficiency, economy, safety and even aesthetics, are considerations that affect the final design of a lighting system. Lighting and traffic and transport control facilities are installations with high profiles among the population, meaning that not only are they required to be of good quality, but they also must provide a very high level of service.

Urban public lighting

The company's history, with close links to public lighting - mainly in urban areas, has given SICE the knowledge and experience that it needs to provide all its services. Over almost 100 years of service, a wide range of technologies and supplies have been used for installation and maintenance activities in over 1000 residential areas, which bear witness to SICE's experience and quality in this sector.

In recent years, installation and maintenance services in lighting, have been supplemented with other complementary services , engineering and consulting, energy audit, integration into Smart City, or those that as an Energy Service Company (ESCO) may offer (power supply, monitoring, measurement and verification monitoring, ...).

Ornamental public lighting

Monuments and historical buildings require specific lighting systems designed to respect unique features and to showcase the monument complex when illuminated.

Colour and protecting external spaces from light pollution are very important considerations for this type of lighting, and specific studies are required for the location and concealment of different types of projectors.

Lighting of roads and tunnels

Highways in general, and tunnels in particular require lighting systems with close links to road safety.

The optimization of installations and control systems, as well as coordination with operating systems, allow consumption to be moderated with more economic and energy efficient systems, without affecting required safety levels. A specialist team adapts and plans this type of lighting, in accordance with regulations laid down by each country or city, and integrates it into control systems if necessary.

As an integrating company, SICE is able to source a wide range of solutions related both to the product and functions required by each customer. Lighting based on traffic demand or pedestrian demand (roundabouts, zebra crossings), with direct light-by-light control that can be designed upon customer request.

Lighting of parks and gardens

Lighting needs associated with the use of parks and gardens involve a range of design, installation and operation criteria that are totally different to road lighting. Lighting diagrams, times and use-dependent control are factors that to a greater or lesser extent affect lighting in these types of areas.

Centralized systems or lighting based on the presence of people are becoming increasingly common and are replacing simple time regulated systems that are still commonplace.

Centralized management of public lighting

Installation and maintenance of different lighting centralization systems through on-site integration of different information storage and sending devices that allow the behavior of the installation to be analyzed, and make it possible to control the installation.

The centralized monitoring of control panels and the generation of alarms in the event of any type of fault in the equipment or electrical parameters, allow behavior to be audited and the maintenance response to be improved.

SICE operates one of the largest public lighting monitoring installations, with over 2600 panels and 250,000 light points in a single city. Similarly, SICE is a pioneer in the management and control of point-to-point lighting in tunnels and has installed DALI regulation to more than 45,000 fluorescent light points in the longest urban tunnels in the world.