The firm, which sells LED-based lighting solutions, has even launched a campaign to raise awareness of the issue.
Raytec staff believe going green with security lighting could save thousands of pounds every year and help to cut the UK’s carbon emissions.
A number of organisations have already joined the campaign, including national CCTV installer Clear Image.
“At the moment people don’t realise just how much money and energy they are wasting with traditional security floodlighting,” said managing director Neil Smith.
“For example, we’ve just done a cost/benefit study for one client – a high security cash handling company – and showed that they will save GB pound 70,000 [by switching to a Raytec solution] over three years. There are very significant savings to be made.”
In a letter to the Environment Secretary Hilary Benn, Raytec’s managing director Sean Cutler welcomed the Government’s support for low-energy security lighting in homes across the UK. He then called for the same approach to be taken with commercial security lighting.
“The latest, low-energy security lights deliver equal illumination to the widely used halogen-type products but for a fraction of the energy consumption,” Cutler said.
“There is no good operational reason for wasting energy on security lighting.
“We call on the Government to highlight this issue and to do everything possible to encourage local authorities, government departments, and commercial users, to give priority to energy efficiency when installing new security lights and illuminators.”
A Raytec spokesman told info4security the company now plans to garner further support for the campaign from across the industry, including end-users and specifiers.
Raytec has not yet received a response from Benn but is adding a new link to its website to allow people to get involved with the campaign.
