This document discusses intelligent lighting and its benefits. It notes that traditional street lighting wastes a significant amount of energy and emits high levels of carbon dioxide. A solution called intelligent or adaptive lighting is proposed. This system uses outdoor sensors and a wireless network to monitor lighting needs and only illuminates areas when motion is detected. This can reduce energy usage by up to 80% and lower maintenance costs. Examples of intelligent lighting installations in parking lots, residential areas, campuses and roadways are provided. The system enhances safety while reducing light pollution and costs. It may also serve as a foundation for broader smart city applications in the future.

1. 25 SEP 2014
the Past & Future
INTELLIGENT LIGHTING

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Global Street Lighting Challenges…
A lot of energy is needed…
A lot of energy is wasted…

3. Light pollution
Global lighting challenges…

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Estimated costs of powering street lights …
Country Street Lights
Annual Energy
Bill
Annual CO₂
Emissions
the Netherlands 2,8 million € 101 million 675.000 tons
Belgium 1,8 million € 96 million 368.000 tons
France 11 million € 382 million 800.000 tons
Europe 91 million ~ € 10 billion ~ 35.000.000 tons
* Street lights account for over 40% of a municipality’s electricity budget
Assumptions: street lights per person (1/6 in NL/BE/FR and 1/9 in Europe), wattage per street light
(NL = 80W; BE/FR = 120W; Europe = 180W), burning hours (4150 per year), electricity price per
kWh (NL/BE = €0,11; FR = €0,07; Europe = €0.15), CO₂ emission per kWh (580g)
Data from EU commission research: www.e-streetlight.com

5. Insensitive to
environment
Lacks failure
warning
Illuminates
empty streets
Other challenges…

6. Solution: Intelligent Lighting

7. Challenge: Combination of 3 Domains
Intelligent Architecture
Outdoor
Sensor
Wireless
Controls

8. Outdoor Sensors
 Suitable for outdoor climate
 Able to identify pedestrians, cyclists and cars.
 Filter-out objects such as small animals, trees and
wind.
 All this within milli-seconds
 Robust, secure and affordable
 Many possibilities. Tvilight went for a combination…

9. Wireless Sensor Network
 Able to manage 10.000s of nodes in a network
 Each node in a network can contact any node in a
network
 Imaging a network of 1.000 node = 1.000 x 999 calls
 Reporting requirements
 Robust, secure and affordable
 We created network topology: hybrid and open

10. Architecture
 Monitoring and Control demands anytime access
 Live reporting demands able to collect, filter and
cluster huge data
 Imagine Twitter, Facebook and Google architecture
 Intelligent Lighting management requires similar
architecture

11. After a long journey: CitySense
 On-demand lighting
 Live moon-walk for all citizens
 Lamp independent
 Suitable for any lamp-post design
Pilot was a good step!
Real challenges were:
Reliability, Robust,
Scalable & Affordable

12. Intelligent Lighting Working Principle
Download link: http://bit.ly/18RH3pZ

13. Remote Management Tool

14. Recent Projects

15. Example: Outdoor Parking

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CONFIDENTIAL
Example: Outdoor Parking

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Example: Lights dimmed

18. 1. Key Developments: May – June 2013Example: Residential area

19. Example: Residential area

20. University campus

21. University campus
Example: Residential area
Example: Roadway/ Main road

22. Example: Industrial areas

23. Benefits: Intelligent Lighting
 Reduces the energy usage by up to 80%
 Reduces the maintenance costs by up to 50%
 Energy monitoring and control
 Lowers light pollution and CO₂ emissions
 Combines savings while maintaining public safety and
security
 Enables interactive user-experience

24. Client experiences
 “We wanted to accomplish two things, namely reducing light pollution for
people living in the area, but at the same time giving passengers the light
they need. Tvilight was our solution.”
Eelco Krakau – Contract manager Dutch Railways
 “Outdoor lighting accounts for over one-third of our total energy usage.
We want to reduce our energy bill and lower our maintenance costs.”
Harry van der Wal – Energy manager, City of Groningen
 “Tvilight’s adaptive lighting control is an excellent solution: it has allowed
us to save energy as well as manage the street lights remotely. I truly
believe that this is the future.”
Robin Brekelmans – Project leader, Municipality of Nuenen

25. Interactive user experience
Enhanced feeling of safety – a pleasant interactive experience
“My girlfriend now even offers to walk the dog at night, because she
feels safer in the streets!”
“This system feels safer, because you always know when someone
is approaching you; the lights go on.”
“The new lighting is a modern piece of a nostalgic whole.”

26. Future: Foundation for smart city?
 Smart traffic management
 Electric car charging
 Low-cost internet
 Colorful evening walk
 Security systems
 Information systems
 Smart Advertising
 V2V

27. Questions / Next Steps

28. TVILIGHT BV
Westerhaven 13
9718 AW Groningen
the Netherlands
+31 (0) 50 800 3240
www.tvilight.com
Contact information

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Energy Savings

30. System Architecture

31.  Business parks
 Open parking spaces
 Bicycle paths
 University campuses
 Towns/ Villages
 Suburban areas
 Secondary roads
 Fuel stations
 Ports and harbors
Market Applications

32. Who are we?
 Started as a dream in 2010
 Currently multidisciplinary and multinational team of 25
 Specialized in the ‘wireless controls’ and the ‘sensors’
for outdoor lighting industry
 A subsidiary of Pon Holdings, an international
corporation with 13.000 employees in 25 countries

33. Our Partners