INTELLIGENT STREET LIGHTING

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Intelligent Lighting System’ is an integrated solution that combines high efficiency lighting products with advanced monitoring and controls, enabling users to analyse current conditions, create ‘what if’ scenarios and calculate the optimum settings. The intelligent lighting luminaires can seamlessly integrate with a building’s IT network and share information about their status and operations. Outfitted with integrated sensors, each luminaire becomes a point of intelligence that can share information on occupancy, activity patterns, and changes in temperature or humidity and daylight levels. These systems can map energy consumption and allow customisation of lighting according to each work environment giving users extensive control over their lighting systems. This technology reflects the future of smart buildings and their energy management systems.

An intelligent lighting systems can be implemented into any city with LED street lights, connected to an energy grid through a variety of last-mile access technologies. These systems can generate significant energy savings in cities with the usage of energy efficient LED lights and through their smart monitoring and regulation according to weather, traffic and public usage requirements.
– Harsh Chitale CEO, Philips Lighting – South Asia

One of  the Philips products for public infrastructure usage is  CityTouch – a remote lighting management platform( via public mobile network) for outdoor lighting offering simple web applications to manage street lights and analyze lighting data. The software can link the lighting assets in a city’s infrastructure, creating new ways to save money, keep citizens safe, and improve operational efficiency.

Philips’ Citytouch solutions are currently used in more than 250 cities in 31 countries and some key installations are in London (UK), Surakarta (Indonesia), Los Angeles (USA), Greater Toronto (Canada) and Buenos Aires (Argentina).

Further savings can be achieved by connecting public street lighting to the Internet—the ‘Energy Internet’ (sometimes called “Smart Grid”)—and other IP networks. The key requirements for such solutions to work are data collection devices, networks and integrated intelligence and intervention systems.

Philips offers dedicated IntelligentCity services that can effectively manage the integration of ‘Intelligent Lighting System’ into an existing city. IntelligentCity is a connected public lighting solution for cities that completely transforms the way public lighting is controlled, managed and maintained. The concept is  simple and the solution combines three differentiating elements:

CityTouch is an open, futureproof and customizable solution, ensuring the longterm security of a customer’s investments and plans. The rate of change in the IT space is continually increasing and therefore  CityTouch is designed  to keep pace with new developments through continuous innovations and improvements, so that it remains future-proof.  CityTouch uses application programming interface (API) technology to allow exchanging data with third party systems, connecting an already existing asset management system with LightWave, the remote management solution of CityTouch.

Professional networks must be able to withstand deliberate attacks from outside. By performing special penetration tests – a process known as “ethical hacking” –  the company is able to quickly detect and eliminate potential security holes. With 128bit SSL encryption and two-factor authentication, the software meets the most stringent security standards. Additionally, to protect against potential failures or accidents, the system automatically generates backups and stores them in different locations. In the event of a failure, a system recovery routine is activated so that the system is up and running again in next to no time.