Modern public lighting solutions
Today, with the increasing demand for energy and the significant gap between demand and supply, it has become more urgent than ever to move to solutions that help us conserve and use resources in a better way. One of the initiatives taken is the move towards smart cities.
One of the major applications for smart street lighting is in Smart City. A smart city is a technologically modern urban area that uses various electronic methods, voice activation methods and sensors to collect specific data. The information obtained from that data is used to effectively manage assets, resources and services. Street lighting is the backbone of a smart city. Street lights are everywhere and so much so that we sometimes don’t even notice or recognize them, but lighting can account for 10-38% of the total energy bill in typical cities around the world.
Smart Street Light System, an intelligent street lighting control system that uses AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology to provide automated services, is one such technology. A smart street light consists of a network of street lamps that can communicate with each other and send lighting data to a central base.
The central database manages and transmits the relevant data to a secure server that captures the data and presents it in a web browser dashboard. It allows remote control of street lights while keeping track of electricity consumption in lamps and driving circuits. Monitored street lighting networks will help reduce maintenance costs as each lamp has a unique ID and can be identified.
These cost savings can also allow municipalities to expand street lighting to new areas, increasing access to lighting in low-income and other underserved communities. The main component of an intelligent street lighting system is the intelligent pole, which consists of the following three elements:
- LED/HID lamps with the highest efficiency
- IoT-based end-to-end communication to create a digitally monitored, secure and reliable network
- Adding smart sensors to monitor weather conditions, lamppost tilt, air pollution and more