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Smart streetlights enable the reduction of running expenses associated with public lighting by delivering several value-added services to cities and citizens.
The solution allows the dynamic adaption of the brightness of streetlights according to the season-dependent day and night cycle duration or even to a combination of this and the noise level. A good lighting system increases both actual and perceived security. Furthermore, directed light may improve the well-being of residents. An underlying connectivity backbone connects the poles (i.e. fibre-optic backbone) and serves to deliver digital services via integrated street lights.
Within this solution, the lighting poles can be used to provide other functionalities (i.e. Intelligent and Connected Public Space – Wi-Fi, navigation aids for visually impaired people or displays) through the attachment of additional sensors or signalling devices.
Increasing safety
Reducing operation costs
Improving energy usage efficiency
Reducing energy bills
Promoting active living
Improving life quality
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Average implementation time: 1 - 2 years
Initial investment amount: around 2,000,000 Euro for a system with 400 light poles including groundwork and WiFi capabilities
The global market for smart lighting is expected to reach 9.47 Billion USD by 2022. (markets and markets, 2017) By implementing this solution, various marketable benefits can be achieved. These are for example energy savings, increased lifetime, increased security and increasing flexibility. Within the implementation of a smart lighting system, other applications can be integrated. Examples of these applications are traffic monitoring, smart parking, charging of electric vehicles and environmental monitoring. (Castro et al., 2013)
Cost savings due to the implementation of a smart lighting system have two different reasons. One reason is the energy savings whereas another reason is operational savings. Due to a calculation of the silver spring networks for 50,000 smart street lights and a period of 20 years estimates the overall savings with $38.9 Mio. Possible reasons for both times of savings are the following:
(European Expertise Center, 2013)
EIP SCC Initiative on the Humble Lamppost: This initiative aims to develop an open, affordable component based city lighting solution that enables other smart city initiatives; delivered collaboratively between cities & industry to speed integrated valuable delivery:
(Market Place of the EIP on Smart Cities and Communities, 2016)
Click here to find out more about the EIP SCC Humble Lamppost Initiative
· An existing fibre-optic backbone infrastructure eases the implementation of Smart Street Lighting as it ensures a high quality of the provided services.
Smart lighting is affected by the regulations concerning energy savings, like the following:
But smart lighting is also influenced by data security regulations as data is collected to optimise the solution.
A European Parliament and Council Directive on this issue (2009/125/EC) outline eco-design requirements for energy using products, focusing on energy consumption during the entire product lifecycle including production, transport, scrapping and recycling. Therefore, most municipalities are supportive in the implementation of smart lighting or even implement them themselves. (European Expertise Center, 2013)
EU Standards
ISO/IEC Directive Part 1 Supplement JTC 1:2016, Procedures specific to JTC 1
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The project involved equipping light poles with multi-colour LEDs allowing interactive control of individual lights. This enables a variety of services such as: guiding people through different lighting, seasonal lighting programs for increased comfort, safety control via sound sensors.
Energy
The leading food retailer in Poland installed Omniflow smart and sustainable lighting units in its newest stores parking lot. The smart lamp posts integrate wind and solar generation with energy storage, to vastly reduce the carbon footprint of lighting.
Energy
ICT
This project is a key part of Aberdeen's digital transformation. The City COuncil has invested in a £9.7 million seven-year rolling programme of replacing the old inefficient and expensive street lighting with more efficient and cost-effective LED lighting.
ICT
To encourage walkers, joggers and runners interactive lights are embedded in a footway around two ponds in Eckart.
Energy
As part of the "Living Lab" innovation network in Ludwigsburg, this use case is an example of how cities can become "smarter" in the future.
Energy
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Lamppost infrastructure and street lighting as a whole, are predestined to provide additional services and technologies to cities and their inhabitants. Street lighting is almost everywhere in a more regular pattern and it`s connected to electricity.
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Energy
Mobility
Milan is exploring how a range of sensors and services can be added to lamp posts to transform them into a smart infrastructure for the city, demonstrating how smart technology can add value to people’s lives. The goal was to improve the efficiency of energy usage in public lighting.
Energy
ICT
Under the Smart Lighting measure of the Grow Smarter project, the goal is to demonstrate and test three different technologies for smart street lighting: remote, self-controlled and sensor-controlled LED lighting. In this Use Case the focus is on a remote controlled system connected to a CMS.
Energy
ICT
Under the Smart Lighting measure of the Grow Smarter project, the goal is to demonstrate and test three different technologies for smart street lighting: remote, self-controlled and sensor-controlled LED lighting. In this Use Case the focus is on a stand alone system
Energy
The City of Tartu replaced 320 existing sodium lights in the city centre area of Tartu with energy efficient LED lighting. The new lighting and the traffic and environmental sensors, together with the wireless control units developed by Cityntel OU, form a smart street lighting network.
Energy
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Unidirectional functional lighting has been installed on a walking path at a pond in Eckart. The special type of lights only shine towards the path and not on the pond to not disturb the local fauna.10 of the 30 poles are equipped with sensors that dim the light according to the usage of the path.
Energy
Mobility
ICT
The Royal Borough of Greenwich has upgraded its lampposts with LED lighting, electric vehicle (EV) charging points and smart parking sensors.
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An intelligent and connected public space collects data in public areas and displays or reacts on the data. The data can be securely transferred via Wi-Fi or other similar technologies to be, i.e. combined with a central system.
The supply of energy to households, public buildings and services accounts for the majority of GHG emissions in the majority of municipalities. Energy Saving Systems represent punctual solutions to optimise energy consumption.
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