Experts: Smart street lighting solutions key to access to safe cities

06-03-2019 Media in\ Dubai
Dubai will host the region’s first-ever conference on the use of the Internet for Things in Lighting, which will take place on the sidelines of Middle East Electricity 2019, the region’s largest energy event to be held until tomorrow at the Dubai World Trade Center.
Two experts at the conference noted that the adoption of intelligent street lighting solutions is the smartest and most effective option for cities and cities around the world to raise efficiency and enhance levels of population happiness at the same time.
As the term “smart city” has become a “common word” for developers of urban development projects, Peter Schwartz, the first engineer at the Tongsram group, said that smart street lighting systems can provide the backbone of smart city infrastructure, Move to these advanced systems and enjoy their many benefits.
During a panel discussion focused on the future of the industry, titled “The Road to Intelligent Street Lighting Adoption,” Schwartz pointed out that switching traditional lighting systems to LEED-based systems and implementing an integrated city-wide project to install LEDs on the Internet can Reduce municipal costs as well as increase efficiency levels and “promote safety, security and comfort of the population,” as he put it.
Schwartz noted that LED lighting systems are a proven and efficient technology, emphasizing that they realize that they perform their functions perfectly. This technology has proven to have real value for return on investment and is scalable to keep abreast of future technologies and developments. Adding that smart street lighting would reduce accident rates and enhance safety levels.
Pablo Cervent, chief executive officer of Smart Mission, a specialist in the management of public and private lighting systems, stressed the validity of the views expressed by Schwartz, revealing how his company has transformed the Argentine capital Buenos Aires into a 100-percent city based on intelligent lighting systems. Controlled.
The results of the installation of 150 thousand light bulbs in Buenos Aires, an increase of 80 percent in efficiency, along with savings of 35 percent in maintenance costs, 15 percent in energy consumption and increase levels of satisfaction of the population by 80 percent.