Paradox Engineering SA and Streetlight.Vision will have agreed to develop new Smart City solutions with Smart Streetlight management. These solutions will use the 'internet of thing' approach to enable municipalities to monitor all objects in the street. A pilot project of the solution is being deployed in San Francisco.
More than 40% of many municipalities' electricity bill goes toward street lighting. Paradox Engineering SA and Streetlight.Vision hope to provide solutions that will reduce energy consumption by improving the efficiency of lighting infrastructures. The pilot project is starting in San Francisco. The project will lead to the implementation of a citywide secure wireless communication network to monitor and control different urban services such as street lighting, electric vehicle charging stations, electricity meters and traffic signals.
By leveraging the Paradox Engineering Advanced Metering Infrastructure (PE.AMI) and Streetlight.Vision Control and Monitoring software, the two companies plan to allow municipalities to remotely monitor every object, from individual lamps, to EV charging stations, and more. These devices will be connected into the Paradox Engineering citywide wireless mesh network, where they will exchange information about their status and operations. This will give customers data involving failures, energy consumption, and enable them to schedule lighting levels at fixed times or in relation to dynamic conditions such as traffic, ambient light, or weather. The solution is expected to allow for up to 60% savings on energy bills and maintenance costs.
PE.AMI is an architecture for full-mesh wireless sensor networks for smart grid and smart city projects. PE.AMI enables meter reading, energy network controls, parking and transport management, and other functionality. The system collects and integrates information from various nodes before integrating it into a wider system. The system is IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN) compliant (for more information on 6LoWPAN and lighting controls, read this story from the print edition of LEDs magazine) and features a modular design. PE.AMI also includes the possibility to improve wireless communications by supporting both narrowband and broadband data traffic within the same gateway. The system is IP67 and ATEX certified and has been implemented in several Smart City projects.
Streetlight.Vision's monitoring and control software for smart outdoor lighting management is based on powerline and wireless radio frequency networks. The software is a software as a service (SaaS) architecture that uses a device-centric data model, a web application server, and a web interface to provide the ability to monitor all components and devices of streetlight networks. The software is used in more than 500 cities in 20 countries.
The San Francisco Public Utility Commission intends to replace the existing HPS street light poles with dimmable LED luminaires in the next two years, and to remotely manage them through an integrated wireless control system. In May 2012, Paradox Engineering won the Living Labs Global Award by proposing a solution based on PE.AMI to the San Francisco Public Utility Commission to support, monitor, and manage public lighting and other urban services.
Paradox Engineering and the San Francisco Public Utility Commission will discuss the pilot project and its expected outcomes during the conference "Smart Cities: the making of", to be held on November 15th at swissnex San Francisco, 730 Montgomery Street, San Francisco.
