Floodlight

High-intensity electric light with a broad beam Floodlights Association football pitch at a sports center illuminated with floodlights. A floodlight is a broad-beamed, high-intensity artificial light. It can provide functional area lighting for travel-ways, parking, entrances, work areas, and sporting venues to enable visibility adequate for safe task performance, ornamental lighting for advertising, façades, monuments, or support perimeter security. Floodlights are often used to illuminate outdoor playing fields while an outdoor sports event is being held during low-light conditions. More focused kinds are often used as a stage lighting instrument in live performances such as concerts and plays. Floodlights may also be used to add effects to buildings at night; this is commonly termed facade lighting or—less precisely—architectural illumination. Floodlights at Adelaide Airport. Light source technologies Prior to the emergence of white-light LEDs, the most common type of light source used in sports floodlights was the metal-halide lamp. Sodium-vapor lamps were also commonly used for sporting events, due to their higher luminous efficacy. These have been largely replaced by LED