Carmanah lights up transit ads with new solar product

Carmanah Technologies (TSX: CMH) of Victoria, Canada today announced the newest addition to its line-up of products for the transit industry: the i-PANEL™ illuminated advertising panel.

"We've been working on techniques to effectively illuminate a 4'x6' advertising panel for a number of years now. With a number of recent patent-pending breakthroughs, we've developed a solar lighting technology that meets or exceeds the performance requirements of the world's largest outdoor advertising firms—while providing a clean energy solution with unprecedented independence from the power grid," said Carmanah CEO Art Aylesworth.

Transit shelter advertising panels, with their high visibility to both vehicle traffic and pedestrians, are one of the most popular forms of outdoor advertising.

Until now, one of the primary issues of an illuminated ad panel program was access to power. Currently, less than 30% of the bus shelters in North America are fitted with illuminated ad panels.

Unlike other lighting solutions, Carmanah says its i-PANEL light box technology offers grid independence with uncompromised brightness, light uniformity, image clarity and reliability.

The company says installation costs are a fraction of those of conventional panels and maintenance and operational costs are "virtually zero."

In addition, the design of an i-PANEL illuminated advertising panel enables it to be grid-tied, so it can contribute surplus power back to the grid, the company claimed.

Carmanah is a market leader in integrated solar-powered LED lighting.

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