INTELLIGENT STREET LIGHTING

Going beyond illumination

With advances in technologies that combine LED fixtures with electronic sensors, wireless transmitters, and software, LEDs are moving beyond illumination to function as a gateway to connectivity. Sensors and software built within lighting fixtures capture millions of data points. Data is uploaded to a cloud and instantly analyzed. Analysis enables more connections (among people, data and machines), thereby benefitting cities, building owners, retailers and citizens.

This intelligent lighting system provides a platform for the future development of intelligent applications that will deliver efficiency for an intelligent city and convenience for citizens.
– Harish Lalchandani Country Manager-India GE Lighting

Urban Infrastructure required to install ‘Smart Lighting’ starts with energy-saving LED street lights. Within the fixture, sensors, controls, transmitters and microprocessors capture data and send it to the GE cloud for analyzing with software to address city needs and challenges.

Software-defined lighting solution transforms the street lighting into the analytical brain of urban life. With GE’s intelligent cities solution powered by Predix (cloud platform for the industrial internet) LED fixtures help translate millions of inputs into intelligent insights that solve some of the city’s toughest infrastructure challenges — tackling areas such as mobility & transportation, public safety & security, energy, environment & weather, maintenance & operations, physical infrastructure, communications, and resource conservation. This intelligent lighting system provides a platform for the future development of intelligent applications that will deliver efficiency for an intelligent city and convenience for citizens.

In the future, the solution will have the ability to interact with citizens enriching the sources of information and making possible to transform massive volumes of information into intelligence, not only to provide intelligent insights to the cities but to drive meaningful outcomes for residents.

Traffic Optimization:

• With Current by GE’s Intelligent Cities solution, cities could receive realtime traffic data and visualization to improve traffic flow in real time. Today, traffic congestion costs the US economy alone $100 billion each year.
• GE’s solution interconnect the different transportation systems to provide faster routes to pedestrians and drivers.

Environmental Monitoring:

• GE’s software-defined lighting solution could help cities monitor and analyze air quality. Today, 131.8 million people live in US counties receiving an ‘F’ for ozone or particle pollution.
• In the future, its Intelligent Cities solution, will be prepared to manage adverse weather conditions from clearing entry door or deciding to avoid driving in a snow storm to predict the best hours for landing and take-off in any airport.

Parking Optimization:

Through an application for Parking Optimization, the solution will help drivers find available spots as they near their destinations, saving time.

Security:

• In the future, an application for security surveillance could help make city streets more secure, making it easier to direct emergency response action, allowing for pictures and video to be shared with 911 operators, police and other enforcement departments.
• Current by GE’s software-defined lighting solution will make it possible for the most critical institutions to be better connected and exchange massive volumes of information through the biggest cloud any city can have.