Electricity + Control April 2016

ENERGY + ENVIROFICIENCY: FOCUS ON LIGHTING

Chiasso constantly aims for newways to achieve higher green targets. In 2013, the City started to invest on its street lighting infrastruc- ture to reduce energy consumption, pilot future proof technologies and improve quality of service. The Smart Lighting project was kicked off by replacing existing lamps with LED devices and implementing PE.AMI as advanced system for remote monitoring and control. Lat- est deployments were made in summer 2015 in Via Dante Alighieri, prominent arterial road in the city centre, and the Smart Lighting infrastructure now covers multiple areas of the City, ie. the ring road, a portion of the city centre, some municipal buildings and sports facilities. “Investments we are shouldering to improve street lighting are paying relevant benefits back to Chiasso citizens and businesses, as well as to local government and AGE itself”, confirms Corrado Noseda, director at AGE SA. “Thanks to LED transition and the pos- sibility to calibrate each light point from remote, we estimate a 70% cut of daily energy consumption in Via Dante Alighieri, and similar results in the other areas.

"As for service quality, we can ensure every street, crossroad and crossover to be properly lighted, using the light intensity which is indeed needed. Management and maintenance costs have been reduced too”.

AGE and the City of Chiasso decided to gradually leverage the same network plat- form to manage other urban applications, such as public Wi-Fi in some city areas, traffic video surveillance along the ring road through IP cameras, and a pilot smart metering project. Discussions are currently in place to extend PE.AMI network to a smart parking project and test some pio- neer drone applications in the same area, thus pushing the

idea of the Smart City even further.

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