Błyskotliwe światła, błyskotliwe miasto Street lamps can be a major drain on resources: lighting accounts for around 6% of global greenhouse emissions. No wonder councils want to find ways of making lightning smarter and more efficient. To test all the options, Copenhagen is setting up the Danish Outdoor Lighting Lab in a suburb called Albertslund. There, engineers will have freedom to toy with the different products, while foreign officials who are curious about the technology can comperisions-shop for their hometown. So far, 25 companies have reserved space for their products. The city will be testing smart lamps that dim if it is sunny, brighten if a few people pass by at night, or atomatically alert the city when something isnt working. Sensors that track traffic density, air quality, noise, weather conditions and UV radiation will be fitted throughout the site to see what sort of enviroment the lights are operating in. All this will help work out which lights are making the biggest difference in terms of lowering costs and emissions. Several cites around the world already investigating smart street lighting for example Los Angeles, Barcelona. Fitting street lamps with complex sensors and hookingthem up to a larger network that controls the city wil have implications far outside of lighting. If a street lamps senses a sudden rush of people in an area thats usually deserted at night, police could be tripped off to go check the area out
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 22:40:57 +0000
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