Star shines for Harvard?s streetlight system

Andrew Charlesworth, Computing, Wednesday 8 September 2010 at 10:29:00

Scalable remote control of street lighting reduces costs for local
authorities

IT service provider Star and street lighting specialist Harvard Engineering
have teamed up to provide local authorities with a wireless system enabling them
to remotely manage street lights that could cut up to 40 per cent from
street-lighting energy bills.

Harvard?s LeafNut system uses WiMAC wireless central management to remotely
monitor and control the output of each individual street light. Harvard said
the system can save up to �46 and 100kg of carbon emissions per year per street
light. It is to be deployed by 30 local authorities covering more than 40,000
street lights.

The system also reduces maintenance costs by identifying lamp problems in
advance and predicting lamp failure.

Using Star?s on-demand platform means the service can be scaled up quickly
for other local authorities.

A number of UK locations are already up and running with LeafNut, including
Hertfordshire, Blackpool, Luton, Suffolk, Westminster, Durham, Sheffield,
Monmouthshire, North Somerset, Hartlepool and Plymouth. There are also
installations in the Netherlands, Austria, Spain, Hungary, France, Ireland and
Australia.

Full story at http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2269405/star-shines-harvard-streetlight