Halifax Introduces Smart LED Street Lights
June 05 2016
Nova Scotia’s capital city is in the process of converting and connecting 43,000 LED street lights. The goal: to help improve public safety, increase energy conservation, control costs, and establish a smart city platform for the future.
Silver Spring Networks, Inc., selected to deliver the intelligent LED street lights network, will be deploying its award-winning smart street lights solution, including its Streetlight.Vision control software, to network 43,000 LED luminaires provided by LED Roadway Lighting Ltd., a Halifax-based company that designs and manufactures smart lighting systems.
LED technology offers municipalities a range of benefits:
• outstanding operational lifespan of up to 20 years
• energy consumption savings of up to 50%
• no toxic materials; lamps are 100% recyclable
• directs light onto the ground and reduces light pollution
• lamps are extremely durable and resistant to shock, vibrations and impacts
• lamps can be dimmed according to lighting needs to save energy and costs
• reduces greenhouse gas emissions
“We all want to live in safe, healthy communities. That includes well-lit streets, roads, and public spaces,” says Angus Doyle, project manager for the street light conversion project and Utilities Coordination Manager with the Halifax Regional Municipality. “Silver Spring’s adaptive lighting platform offers real-time monitoring of our street lights, which eliminates the need for residents to phone in outages and allows us to better manage maintenance and replace burnt out lights much sooner. It also opens doors for future smart city applications in Halifax, anything from water and electric meter readings to advertising panels and traffic counters.”
Adaptive technology systems like Silver Spring’s are an ideal complement to Halifax’s LED retrofit project, allowing for increased energy savings while placing the municipality in control of lighting functionality at any time, from anywhere. Intelligent modules are attached to the LED streetlights, offering the municipality a wireless canopy with the potential to connect with many other smart city devices, such as water and electric meters, advertising panels and traffic counters. The system monitors the streetlights in real time and sends alerts when maintenance is required, allowing the municipality to better manage streetlight maintenance and eliminating the need for residents to report outages.
These smart street lighting solutions help cities, utilities, and transportation agencies deploy intelligent lighting systems that dramatically improve system reliability, increase energy efficiency, lower operational costs, extend equipment lifespans, and enhance citizen safety and quality of life.
With both Silver Spring and LED Roadway Lighting, Halifax has tapped into organizations and technology that is already active around the world:
• Silver Spring has delivered over 21.5 million IPv6-connected devices for critical infrastructure networks on five continents. It already connects critical infrastructure in such iconic cities \as Chicago, Copenhagen, Glasgow, Paris, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Singapore, and Washington D.C., and is partnering with Florida Power & Light for what is believed to be the world’s largest connected lighting project of nearly 500,000 networked street lights across Miami and South Florida. Find out more about Silver Spring’s smart lighting and smart city solutions: www.silverspringnet.com/smartcities.
• LED Roadway Lighting Ltd. is headquartered in Halifax, has a primary manufacturing located in Amherst, Nova Scotia, and manufacturing capabilities in the UK, U.S.A., Mexico, Brazil, and China. Its products have been installed in 60 countries. Find out more about LED Roadway Lighting Ltd: http://www.ledroadwaylighting.com/en/.
