Smart Street Light Explainer: Installations & Benefits

There are hundreds of thousands of streetlights, millions of streetlights, which are changing from conventional HID type of lamps into LED lamps. What if now that we are... using trucks and people to bring these new lights, which are like $300 each, right? I mean, even more in Europe, onto poles which are eight meters high and so on. Why don't we control them at the same time? Why don't we put a controller on top of them at the same time? To do what? To do two things. The first one is to identify all the failures on this light because this is a safety issue, right? And second, to program the lamps, to dim the lamps, to adjust the light level to the light level at the right time, depending on the traffic, the usage, how many people are around, and so on. Having a streamlined controller on top of an LED is actually a way to enhance or to make the return investment case even better for deploying all these new plants. The streetlight world is divided into two kinds of installations. The main installation in Europe and in Asia is organized with what we call an electrical cabinet. which delivers power to 20, 100, 200 lamps. First of all, if you have only cabinet controllers, you don't know exactly where the failure that this cabinet controller has identified is located. Is it in the first streetlight, the second, the third, and so on? Where is it, right? The second thing is cabinet controllers do not enable people to, or streetlight operators, to dim the lamps. With luminaire controllers, which cost more, you need to go and install them in each light, of course. You can do all of that. In the US, in the UK, in Australia, you don't have such cabinets. The lights are directly connected and to the public electrical grid. So in this case, you're obliged to have a light point controller, a luminaire controller, right. top of each luminaire of course then in both cases you could still install luminaire contours on top of all the lights and here you have different mechanisms and ways to control these devices to communicate between a central management software which will handle all these failures and programs and so on and each luminaire controller Thank you.