As LED technology continues to manifest in different facets of our daily lives, one place that they are becoming increasingly more popular are the streets. Traditionally, our streets have been illuminated by high-pressure sodium lamps, which utilize excited sodium particles to produce light. LED street lights have proven to have several benefits over these lamps, including producing moreContinue reading “LED Street Light Considerations”
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6 Things You Should Know About Street Light Poles
Developers, municipalities, architects, and so forth, are tasked with finding the appropriate street light poles for roadways, sidewalks, neighborhoods, and parking lots. Street light poles grant a sense of safety and security that is important to anyone who lives, works, or travels in the area. Street lights do not guide auto traffic, the headlights on automobilesContinue reading “6 Things You Should Know About Street Light Poles”
An Intelligent Streetlight Infrastructure – The Foundation of the Smart City
An intelligent streetlight infrastructure is the first and easiest step in the path to creating a Smart City as it serves as the foundation or backbone network to deliver services that benefit citizens, businessesand city government. At the heart of this infrastructure, is LED-based lighting and sensor technology that is built into intelligent streetlights andContinue reading “An Intelligent Streetlight Infrastructure – The Foundation of the Smart City”
Energy conservation with efficient LED lighting solution
Lighting accounts for about 20 percent of the total energy usage worldwide, approximately 1,944 terawatt hours. Because lighting is relatively simple to upgrade, the trend in recent years is to switch to LEDs. Doing so greatly improves energy efficiency, mitigating impacts of global warming and reducing energy dependence. What is an LED light? A light-emittingContinue reading “Energy conservation with efficient LED lighting solution”
MULTIPLE BENEFITS OF SMART LIGHTING SOLUTIONS IN SMART CITIES
he role of smart lighting solutions in the intelligent transformation of cities and buildings has gained momentum in the past years. This development will continue in the coming years based on increased connectivity and industrial internet of things (IIoT) solutions becoming a key element in most smart city strategies around the globe. The opportunities thatContinue reading “MULTIPLE BENEFITS OF SMART LIGHTING SOLUTIONS IN SMART CITIES”
IoT Based Street Light Monitoring System
The more than 350 million bulbs that light up the world consume a humongous amount of energy, which, many estimates put at about 19 percent of world’s energy consumed. These lighting costs are essential and not avoidable, though they cost governments roughly Euro 3 billion every year. Though LED lights are gradually replacing CFL andContinue reading “IoT Based Street Light Monitoring System”
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