Los
Angeles, CA, USA -- The future of smart cities will start with
smart outdoor lighting. That's the subject of a presentation to
lighting professionals being made by Jeremy Ludyjan, Senior Director,
Field Marketing for Fulham Co., Inc., a leading supplier of lighting
components and electronics for commercial and specialty applications.
Ludyjan is scheduled to deliver a tutorial entitled "Intelligent
Outdoor Lighting: The Backbone of Smart Cities" at LightShow
West being held here October 11-12.
Many
cities are already adopting lighting control systems for street
lights, bike paths, public parking, and illumination in public spaces
using wireless platforms such as Wi-Fi, Zigbee and Bluetooth mesh.
More vendors also are entering the market with cloud-based software
and centralized computer dashboards that offer easy integration and
lighting management. Studies have shown that centrally controlled
lighting has a number of advantages, including dramatic energy
savings and for applications such as crowd control. Ludyjan's
presentation will review the various technologies available for
outdoor lighting and how urban lighting controls are laying the
foundation for other smarty city applications.
The
Light Show West session will include updates on the latest smart
lighting technology, including:
• An
overview of the different outdoor lighting control platforms;
• Potential
energy savings from intelligent lighting technology;
• Additional
benefits from adding intelligence to outdoor lighting; and
• The
future of outdoor lighting controls.
"Smart
cities are clearly in our future, but before you can bring
intelligence to traffic control, parking, waste management, and other
services, you have to have the infrastructure to support data
communication," said Ludyjan. "Smart lighting is the first
logical step in building a control network, since adding smart street
lighting can immediately save millions in energy costs while creating
a control network infrastructure for other applications."
Smart
lighting is already proving beneficial to various municipalities. Los
Angeles, for example, is saving an estimated $9 million annually in
energy costs by replacing its aging sodium-vapor streetlights with
smart LED lighting. The smart lighting poles being installed in LA
also are expanding the city's wireless networking capacity with small
cells for phone carriers.
A
smart city infrastructure also enables new management and urban
planning solutions. For example, Singapore is using its smart city
platform to monitor traffic and control littering. Barcelona is using
smart city technology for street lighting, waste management, and even
to alert motorists about available parking. With smart city
technology in place, city managers have access to new pools of data
for big data analytics.
Fulham
has been working with a variety of partners on strategies to
integrate its smart LED lighting into smart city control platforms.
For example, Tvilight, a Dutch company specializing in wireless
control and lighting control solutions, has integrated Fulham's
WorkHorse LED fully programmable, wireless outdoor lighting systems
into its smart city management platform.
The
tutorial session, "Intelligent Outdoor Lighting: The Backbone of
Smart Cities," is part of Light Show West and scheduled to take
place from 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. October 11.
About
Fulham
Fulham
Co., Inc. is a leading global provider of intelligent,
socially-conscious sustainable commercial lighting components and
electronics for use in commercial general lighting, parking
structure, signage, horticultural, UV and other applications. The
company develops and manufactures a variety of award-winning LED and
emergency products, as well as legacy products across multiple
lighting platforms. Fulham sells its lighting solutions worldwide
through original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and electrical
equipment distribution channels. Headquartered in Hawthorne, Calif.,
the company has sales and/or manufacturing facilities in the
Netherlands, China, India and the UAE. For more information, visit
http://www.fulham.com.
Media
Contact:
Andy
Firchau
Marketing
Manager
Fulham
Co., Inc.
Phone:
+1 (323) 779-2980, ext. 1252
