How smart street lighting fixtures work

In Italy, there is a street lighting fixture for every 6 inhabitants for a total of about 10 million light points. This allows us to understand the degree to which street lights extend throughout the territory and how indispensable they are becoming with regards to people’s safety. Today, with smart lighting technology, public lighting fixtures provide many other services in addition to the traditional role of illumination. Following the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, street lights have become intelligent and connected: this means they are able to acquire and transmit information, thus creating smart city lighting.

Smart street lights as nodes of network

Public LED lighting is therefore one of the main infrastructural aspects of a city: more precisely, it is the key factor of the future smart city lighting models. In fact, are designed to be an essential component of smart city management. Why? Let’s imagine the street lighting fixtures within nodes of a network infrastructure, where they can interact with various devices and sensors to offer technological smart services and give rise to the concept of smart and connected street lighting.

We invest in green ideas to reduce waste

One of the first and most important advantages of smart street lighting is certainly energy saving. Thanks to smart lighting control systems (management of emitting light only where and when it is necessary), there are considerable savings. With the flux regulation systems, it is possible to create personalized lighting scenarios, reducing a lot of energy waste. In fact, the consumption of electricity in public lighting today represents a significant percentage of total costs. For this reason, all the municipalities of the world are moving towards the creation of smart street lighting. With the adjustment of the luminous flux, street lighting levels are automatically modified according to the need. Therefore, this means the lumen output increases or decreases depending on the time of day or special requirements.

The environment matters and can no longer wait

Creating a smart public lighting system also means helping the environment and reducing CO2 emissions. In addition to having a longer life cycle, LED technology consumes less energy than a traditional luminaire and therefore significantly reducing carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. Not everyone knows that a large amount of carbon dioxide emissions are drived from energy consumption. Just think of the fact that LEDs allow savings of up to 90% compared to traditional luminaires and have a lifespan of up to 20 times longer.

A system monitored 24hr with smart city lighting

The flexibility of a smart street lighting system also guarantees, among other things, a higher quality of light. This is because the smart LED luminaires constantly check the efficiency of the system and are therefore able to report any problems in real-time. Due to this feedback, a better quality of the system is inevitably obtained, also making any maintenance operations much faster.

How can you create a smart public lighting system?

When equipped with the appropriate electronic devices, lighting fixtures become smart and connected. Remote control and smart street lighting nodes are used to create a functional smart street lighting control system. These nodes can be installed either internally or externally with regards to the luminaire. Using standard Nema or Zhaga nodes, external installation occurs exactly above the cover of the lighting fixture.

What is a smart street lighting remote control?

In the world of smart street lighting, we talk about a lighting remote control system, when a hardware and software solution through can remotely monitor and manage the public lighting system. The remote control is therefore based on the exchange of information between the plant and the control center.

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