By Jim Stafford
Copyright © 2017, The Oklahoma Publishing Company
OWASSO — Buddy Stefanoff touched the screen on his cellphone, and a bright LED light instantly shone in a streetlight fixture atop a stand across the room.
Stefanoff was demonstrating technology that his firm, Crossroads LED, uses that allows road crews to remotely switch on or off groups of streetlights with a mobile app.
“How many people have an app that can turn on and dim a streetlight?” Stefanoff asked as I watched the demonstration at Crossroads LED’s electronics laboratory in Owasso.
Buddy Stefanoff is vice president and senior design engineer of Crossroads LED, a 7-year-old company that is developing high-output LED technology. LED lighting can replace incandescent, florescent and high-intensity discharge lighting for virtually any lighting application.
“We started with multicolored lighting for the amusement and entertainment industries, but as the company grew we diversified into the commercial and industrial white lighting markets,” said Dana Stefanoff, the company’s president.
Crossroads designs and manufactures multicolor and white LED lighting systems for museums, theaters, city civic centers and arenas, cities and municipalities, and other large venues. Its technology allows customers to retrofit light fixtures with more efficient LED lighting that provides hundreds of thousands of dollars in energy and maintenance savings.
“Santa Fe, New Mexico, is one of the many projects that we are really excited about,” Dana said. “We’ve been able to provide retrofit solutions for their decorative and historical fixtures, converting the 250-watt metal halide fixtures into a 70-watt LED lighting platform. This conversation saves the City of Santa Fe over 100,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year.”
‘It’s his art’
Other notable projects completed by Crossroads LED include the advanced caution lighting system along the catch-fence at the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas; the installation of their patented, Infinity multicolor lighting sys