Patent ID: 7883234

Claim:
A modular in-road lighting system, the lighting system comprising: at least one modular light, at least one modular cable0 and a control unit, the modular light comprising a hermetically sealed lighting element and a lighting fixture; the lighting element comprising: a housing, control circuitry and an illumination source, the illumination source electrically coupled to the control circuitry and configured to emit light in one or more desired directions, the illumination source and the control circuitry housed within the housing; a wet-mateable hermetic connector attached to the housing and electrically coupled to the control circuitry, the wet-mateable hermetic connector operable to receive control signals transferred from the control unit; and an optically transparent lens forming the top of the housing; the lighting fixture including an aperture, the lighting fixture configured to receive the lighting element such that when the lighting element is inserted into the lighting fixture the lens forms the top of the modular light and the wet-mateable hermetic connector can be accessed through the aperture and a hermetic seal is created between the lighting element and the lighting fixture; the modular cable comprising: at least one cable section and three hermetic connectors, a first hermetic connector and a second hermetic connector configured to be electrically coupled with a second modular cable and a third modular cable and/or the control unit, and a third and wet-mateable hermetic connector configured to electrically couple with the control circuitry within the lighting element.