Intelligent street lighting
07 Sep 2011
The Tvilight Team are working on the development and testing of intelligent street lighting system, to improve energy efficiency on the TU Delft University campus. Chintan Shah gives us a brief of this project.
“This lighting technique uses up to 80% less electricity than the current systems and is also cheaper to maintain. The system consists of street lights with LED lighting, motion sensors and wireless communication. This enables the installation to dim the lights when there are no cars, cyclists or pedestrians in the vicinity. Wireless communication between the street lights and a control room is also possible. Compared with the current street-lighting system, this Intelligent System can reduce energy consumption and CO2 emission by up to 80%, is cheaper to maintain and can also help solve the problem of light pollution.”
This project was formulated after Chintan, had won a competition in 2010 with the concept for improving energy efficiency on the university campus.
Have a look at the excerpt of the project by Chintan Shah on youtube.