Smart Street Lighting Solution - Saving Urban Costs

Using smart technology to provide remote lighting control, you can more accurately adjust, modify and monitor the time and range when lights are turned on.

A new report from Juniper Research, a British research institute, points out that the widespread application of smart street lighting solutions can save cities $15 billion in costs by 2023.

Think about the number of street lights you drive past every day on your way home from get off work, and you’ll realize how high the number is. A lot of unnecessary energy is wasted on lighting at 2 a.m., when there are very few people on the streets. Of course, when there is less traffic on the streets, it cannot be taken for granted that they should be dark and not need lights – that would be unsafe. However, by adding intelligence and control to smart lighting products, we can significantly reduce energy bills and electricity consumption.

Smart technology provides remote lighting control that can more accurately adjust, modify and monitor when and how much lights are turned on. This also helps reduce overall streetlight maintenance costs and improves asset tracking.

In today's cities, traditional lighting systems often have some shortcomings:

• Lack of flexibility:Street lights can only be turned on or off, and control is done via a timer scheduler switch or manually.
• Difficult to detect faults:With multiple lamps connected to a single-wire system, fault identification is accompanied by uncertainty.
• limited ability:Current street lighting systems cannot adapt to local weather conditions.

By incorporating smart technologies, such as LoRa® devices and the LoRaWAN® protocol, into smart streetlights, cities can overcome these challenges while saving costs. A recent example is Ahoy Systems, an Indian manufacturer of smart street lighting solutions.

Ahoy's smart street lighting solution delivers ultra-low power consumption and pays for itself in less than four years. This is critical because streetlights consume a large portion of an average city’s budget. LoRa-based solutions can be easily deployed into existing LED street lighting infrastructure, providing lower deployment costs. Smart street lights can also automatically dim according to a programmable schedule and automatically send fault detection information to managers when moonlight is detected.

Ahoy is currently deployed in India, but is increasingly used in markets around the world. With these improvements, cities are able to benefit from all the features smart street lights have to offer, such as:

Energy costs are significantly reduced due to better lighting control

• Ambient sensing lighting to enhance public safety at large events
• Reduce maintenance and asset management costs based on streetlight and sensor data
• Sensors can be powered and connected via platforms for other smart city applications.

Does the city you live in have a smart lighting system?

Original source: Semtech

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