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In this work, the authors present the necessity of photometric measurements in order to determine quality parameters when changing light sources with other types of light sources. To emphasize this we conducted a case study, measuring luminous parameters on two different streets, and we determined the technical luminous coefficients that establish the lighting system quality. We made photometric measurements on a street with sodium vapours lamps and on a street with LED lamps, determined the technical light parameters and did a comparison of the results. The outcome of the case study underline the need of conducting photometric measurements and of the lighting system redesign such that, upon changing the light sources and the technical characteristics of the lighting systems, the system still fulfils the technical standards requirements. In conclusion, for each space that is to be illuminated, an optimal solution should be found, which ensures both a reduction of the energy consumptions (reducing the system's costs) and meets the technical lighting requirements.

This work presents a diagnosis method for railway traffic security installations. More specifically, the authors present a series of diagnosis charts for passing signals on a railway block equipped with an automatic block signaling installation. These charts are based on the exploitation electric schemes, and are subsequently used to develop a diagnosis software package. The thus developed software package contributes substantially to a reduction of failure detection and remedy for these types of installation faults. The use of the software package eliminates making wrong decisions in the fault detection process, decisions that may result in longer remedy times and, sometimes, to railway traffic events.

The modern, developed society becomes aware of the necessity to conserve and protect the environment, increasing the gained benefits from a rational use of the natural resources. The pollution and the limitation of the fossil fuels, associated with the political situation worldwide that affects direct the energy strategies, have opened opportunities in the area of operation renewable energy sources. The development of the exploitation of renewable energy sources is directly linked to the energy politic, which, in terms of Romania, has the focus to integrate into the European Union energy strategy. The year 2014 brought in Romania many legislative changes to the renewable support scheme, that proves, once again, the legislative unpredictability and limitations introduced by the legislator "during the game" that overthrew all economic profitability calculation of the existent and planned investments in this sector. The actual stage of the wind energy across Europe and the particular situation in Romania are highlighted; also a 2020 forecast for Romania tries to evaluate the perspective for the wind, and general, renewable energy market. The actual Romanian renewable energy support scheme, mainly regulated by "Law 220/2008" ends December 2016. The so-called "ready to build" projects especially wind- or hydropower, can't be finalized until this deadline, being unable to qualify to the existing, mainly to inoperable, support scheme. Another legislation that has to clarify how investments in renewable energy will be supported is still not in place, blocking any project development, implementation and economical benefit of the producer. The paper presents in this respect an updated overview of the Romanian renewable energy sector and its perspective.

This paper aims to determine the luminous flux of several types of power sources used for the artificial lighting inside. The luminous flux was determined using a photometer integrator (lumenmeter Ulbricht) and a luxmeter from the laboratory of Electrical and Lighting University "Eftimie Murgu" Resita. Based on a reference source, the constant of the integrator photometer k was determined. The paper presents the measuring results of the luminous flux on several lighting sources: with incandescent, fluorescent, and LED. It has been found that the amount of luminous flux in the nominal data written in the box of lighting sources, does not correspond to the actual measured value. Using the photometric sphere, the actual light output from various sources were it is not known, can be determined.

This paper presents the design and building of a Web Server to command, control and monitor at a distance lots of industrial or personal equipments and/or sensors. The server works based on a personal software. The software can be written by users and can work with many types of operating system. The authors were realized the Web server based on two platforms, an UC board and a network board. The source code was written in "open source" language Arduino 1.0.5.