When athletes walk through the Paris Olympic Village or into the stadium in the coming weeks, high-tech and sustainable lights made in Australia will illuminate their way.
lighting company from Bellingen , NSW has made the LEDS for an installation in the Paris Olympic Village .Winning athletes will upload their biographies to QR codes on individual lights in what will become a permanent display.
Planet Lighting based in the small New South Wales mid north coast town of Bellingen was chosen to manufacture the lights for part of an interactive installation that will become a permanent fixture in the French capital. "The security measures on site were very strict so we just made them here in Bellingen, shipped them off and working perfectly," she said.Each light has a QR code and after the Olympics the medal winners will have their details uploaded so fans can scan the code and be taken to their biography."We have a saying: 'This puck gives us light where its needed'," Ms Iggulden said.
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