To accompany with the development and technology trends of the 4.0 era, we are probably all very interested in Smart automatic systems serving public needs, which are convenient and highly efficient on aspects, such as management, energy efficiency as well as related infrastructure.

One of the Smart automatic systems that ENERTEAM would like to mention is the Smart Lighting system. For developed countries in the world, smart lighting has been applied quite popularly and widely. So what is Smart Lighting? What are the benefits of Smart Lighting for both Cities and Citizens? Let’s find out more details about Smart Lighting with ENERTEAM.

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1. WHAT IS SMART LIGHTING?

Smart Lighting is the digital-based lighting technology that satisfies all lighting requirements and high energy efficiency as well. This system is run and monitored by the brightness automatic adjustment based on external environmental conditions.

Smart lighting can be applied in some cases as follows:

Indoor lighting: offices, supermarkets, apartments, etc.
Outdoor lighting: public lighting system including urban landscape, traffic lighting, etc.

In this topic, ENERTEAM will focus on the field of “Smart Street Lighting“. If you pay close attention, you will easily see the outstanding advantages of smart street lighting in developed countries around the world; that is a system of intelligent and automatic equipment with high efficiency including lights, sensors, automatic control and communication system.

In addition, with the smart street lighting system, a special point that attracts our attention is that on each lamppost of this system, thers is a perfect integration and quite a lot of service functions to serve for public needs such as:

Smart LED light
Solar battery to create power for the whole lamppost
Monitoring camera
Public announcement system
Emergency dialog
Public Wi-Fi
Displaying the notifications, ads, weather
Environmental sensor
Electric car charging
Optical cable
Etc.

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2. WHAT ARE BENEFITS OF SMART LIGHTING?

Smart lighting will bring a lot of benefits, especially to both the City and citizens.

For the CITY, smart lighting will bring one of important benefits as follows:

Energy savings and potential of fee charging
Reduce carbon emission
Build optical cable and wireless networks
Crime reduction
Faster response to emergencies
Improve services for residents
Environmental monitoring
Support in breaking traffic and parking
Optimise traffic divergence

In addition, smart lighting also brings many other benefits to CITIZEN such as:

Cleaner and more reliable street lighting
Broadband, full coverage of data connection and related services
Public information and warnings based on real time
Emergency assistance available
Easy access to charging stations for electric vehicles
Safer (in lighting and monitoring systems)
Faster travel time

OTHER BENEFITS FROM SMART LIGHTING SYSTEM

In addition to the benefits for both the City and citizen as mentioned above, smart lighting systems, especially smart public lighting systems also have other significant benefits as below:

Reduce electricity consumption and operating cost as well as maintenance system
Reduce annual Co₂ emissions
Reduce the electricity load at the peak-time of whole country and improve the energy factor in the system
Control and monitor the entire street lighting system in the city from one location and reduce the theft of energy and street lights
Social benefits (Reduced accident rate, safer, less crime, etc.)

In summary, for the efficient smart lighting system, there would have certainly the lighting equipment and management system that are intelligent, efficient as well as the appropriate responsive infrastructure.

We do hope that in the near future, there will be many investment projects related to smart lighting for the public lighting system so that both the City and citizen can truly benefit from this system.

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WHAT IS SMART LIGHTING AND ITS BENEFITS FOR THE CITY AND CITIZEN?