Smart Grid: Can network lights make cities smarter?

In the early days of smart grids, companies considered connectivity from a single device perspective. They are focused on applying intelligence to a single device - such as a meter - and then develop a control platform for that independent device. However, this is not a recipe for this interconnected world.

Now the focus has shifted from vertical technology platforms to horizontal, where each device is seen as part of an open platform to create a true communications ecosystem that extends the application from the grid to the real world.

The concept of the Internet of Things is currently the driving force for technology providers and network companies to view the world.

Or, as the United States Silver Spring smart grid company joke about the important things the Internet. Silver Springs is increasing its use of smart cities. For them, that means focusing on the devices that make our lives change: lights, traffic control, buildings, and emergency response systems.

Eric Dresselhuys, executive vice president of global development at Silver Spring, said in an interview that the industry has narrowly focused on one-off applications, and that individual applications are now beginning to make a massive shift to such a world, where anything is about distribution and consumption. Everything of energy is linked. Our business model has been able to make all ecosystems effective and we are helping partners build smart city ecosystems on our platform.

In recent months, Silver Spring has established partnerships with San Antonio and Masers Energy. Masers Energy is starting a smart city project for Malaysia that will be used to expand grid connectivity to other technology nodes in the city.

But this requires a technical cut. It is precisely because advanced instruments are making the smart grid application more extensive. The establishment of extensive connection of LED street lights in urban scenic spots is a good entry point.

This week, Silver Spring increased their list of partners. Together with Canada’s LED Roadway Lighting, they integrated a network platform into the streetlights. The company has spent five years researching a product that has high-quality drives and a long, narrow profile. The company said the product improved reliability and reduced the number of lamps by 15% to 20%.

Making the platform smart will make it perform better. Silver Spring and LED Roadway have not yet designed this product, but they say that this combination will save up to 65% more energy than high-pressure nanolamps and reduce maintenance costs by up to 90%. Other similar cooperation projects are essentially improving energy efficiency and reducing maintenance costs, though not as much as Silver Spring claims.

With controllable LED lights benefiting the streetlight market, it is natural to add an interactive platform to the product. Therefore, for companies such as ABB, Echelon, Sensus, and Silver Spring, street lamps are becoming the way they expand their products from the smart grid into other urban infrastructures. This also makes the public more willing to use these devices to suppress their lights, traffic signals and emergency response systems.

Dresseslhuys said that once the city is open to this kind of networking platform, the connectivity of other devices will become very low. This is a very exciting area, and this business opportunity has also been expanding.

The market for smart streetlights is still in its early stages. At present, only a few hundred fully integrated systems and about 500,000 communications nodes have been built around the world last year. However, Pike Research believes that the number of such systems will increase to 1100 by 2020 and the number of communications nodes will increase to 4.8 million.

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