Lighting in Design Q4 2018

Owlet IoT Smart Hybrid Architecture.

“The luminaire will analyse the video footage ‘on- board’ data and determine which scenario to report, i.e. report traffic accidents and crimes.” He also believes that energy saving will continuously im- prove with LEDs and, as a result, the load demand of street lighting will be much less than what it is now. “I also think we will see more dynamic street lighting, with different colour temperatures to suit different applications.” Is Africa ready for smart lighting? One of the biggest remote monitoring projects BEKA Schréder is currently working on is the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) route through Kempton Park. The company has already supplied 1300 luminaires, with the second phase taking this figure to around 3000. The main reason for not experiencing a major roll-out of smart luminaires in South Africa and abroad relates to financial reasons.The technology is ready and can be deployed almost anywhere in Africa. “People don’t do long term cost of owner-

ship calculations; they look at short term costs,” says Kasper. “Every municipality to which we present this technology is very interested and would like to deploy management systems within their district. Luminaires will become smarter and, with electronics becoming cheaper, in a few years we will have luminaires that have all the hardware installed to be smart. This ‘smartness’, if I can call it that, will then only add a small percentage to the total cost of the standard version and just requires to be activated once required.” These added costs come with a host of advan- tages. “For me, the benefits are that you increase service delivery by providing light with no, or limited, downtime and, aligned with a reduction in energy consumption, resulting in a reduced CO 2 footprint,” explains Combrink. Future risks that need to be considered centre around the issue of connectivity. “If hackers man- age to hack into city infrastructure they can cause a lot of damage. For us this risk is managed and reduced by integrating the highest levels of cyber security and continuously upgrading to prevent any unauthorised access,” concludes Kasper.

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LEDlume-midi LED streetlight with remote management node.

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