Nowadays, people are always looking for and developing smart solutions to optimize different aspects. The need to build a modern city with a foundation of intelligent systems is increasing. Especially the smart lighting system. So how can modern cities use smart lighting? Let's find out with NLT Group through this article.
What is smart lighting system?
Smart lighting is a lighting technology based on a digital platform that satisfies all lighting requirements and is highly energy efficient. The system is computerized, each street light has its own "mind", which can be turned on or off depending on the actual traffic density, operated remotely by a management software.
According to Associate Professor, Dr. Mai Thi Lien Huong - Director of the Technical Infrastructure Department, Ministry of Construction, urban lighting is an indispensable component in the urban infrastructure technical system, playing an important role in ensuring safety. traffic, enhance order and security, beautify the environmental landscape, and enhance urban aesthetics.
The urban lighting system is equipped with sensors that can automatically adjust light intensity according to the time of day. For example, street lights automatically increase brightness during peak traffic hours and decrease to 30% during off-peak periods to save electricity, so smart lighting systems play a certain important role in progress. smart city development program.
Why do modern cities need smart lighting systems?
Lighting is one of the most necessary activities for humans, and at the same time it is also the activity that consumes the most energy, especially in the construction of modern cities like today. In the book Energy Conversion and Management, it is mentioned: Energy consumption related to lighting is up to 114 TWh, leading to more than 69 million CO2 emissions annually. This poses a difficult problem about energy needs as well as environmental protection in the construction of modern cities.
To solve this problem, smart lighting solutions were born. Thanks to modern technology, smart lighting systems have partly solved the energy problem, significantly reducing large amounts of CO2 emissions with LED technology, along with many other roles that we will mentioned below. It can be seen that smart lighting systems have been playing an extremely important role in the process of urbanization and modernization.
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Top 5 common roles of smart lighting systems
Smart street lights
Smart street lights are an important part of the smart lighting system in modern cities. Thanks to the use of sensors and automatic control technology, smart street lights can adjust brightness based on surrounding natural light levels as well as automatically turn on and off based on monitoring. In addition, using LED lights instead of traditional lighting devices also helps improve lighting quality. This not only helps save energy and reduce carbon emissions, but also creates a safer and more comfortable urban environment for pedestrians and drivers.
Smart public lighting
Smart public lighting system includes intelligently controlled street lights, park lights and lights in residential areas. Public lighting equipment in the city is extremely numerous and consumes a lot of energy.
Using motion and light sensors, the system can adjust brightness based on activity levels and optimal energy consumption. This not only brings convenience to residents, but also helps save energy and reduce operating costs for the city.
Connect via network
Before the development of IoT and AI technology. Smart lighting systems can connect lights into an interconnected network via wireless connection. This allows administrators to monitor and adjust individual lights or groups of lights to optimize lighting throughout the entire city. An interconnected lighting network improves management, maintenance, and the ability to respond quickly to lighting issues.
Connect via network
Remote management
For a smart city, convenience and easy operation are required for platforms. The same goes for lighting systems, which will be managed remotely through mobile applications or websites with an intuitive and easy-to-use interface. Administrators can remotely adjust brightness, operating time and other settings to meet different requirements and situations. This creates flexibility and efficiency in managing lighting systems in the city.
Manage smart lighting devices
With smart lighting systems, thanks to controllers connected to the lighting system chain, we can easily manage the devices. Measurement of lighting level, status, specific location of devices... are all clearly displayed on the system control panel. Thereby, we can easily monitor and promptly update the status of the lighting equipment, helping us easily adjust and maintain the equipment easily, saving some costs for city.
Manage smart lighting devices
Summary
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