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| Berlin is undergoing a street lighting revolution, 5,500 LED street lights have already been deployed, while a further 2,500 are being fitted this year. |
An intelligent wireless lighting network has been installed in the Wilmersdorf district of Berlin. The street lights are able to adjust their brightness based on real-time human presence.
The intelligent lighting minimises energy waste and acts to lower light pollution by ensuring that streetlights do not burn at full capacity throughout the night when the streets are often deserted.
The sensor network is a major breakthrough in Berlin’s street lighting renovation efforts. 5,500 LED street lights have already been deployed, while a further 2,500 are being fitted this year.
The innovative street lighting approach was praised by Christian Gaebler, permanent secretary at Berlin’s Senate Department for Urban Development.
‘Residents were continuously dissatisfied with the state of the area,’ commented Christian Gaebler, permanent secretary at Berlin’s Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment.
‘Now for the first time we are testing a technical innovation that hasn’t existed anywhere in Berlin before, in order to improve the environment,’ Gaebler concluded.
The new LEDs in combination with sensor lighting controllers are allowing Berlin to save up to 80 percent of the energy normally spent on street lighting, whilst cutting maintenance costs.
Smart cities and the internet of things firm Tvilight worked on the project in conjunction with Trilux.
The intelligent network is managed remotely via Tvilight CityManager software, which enables the street lights to be controlled on an individual and group level, whilst delivering a host of analytics such as energy savings reports, failure notifications and traffic heatmaps.
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School installs experimental lighting to improve grades
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An experimental human centric lighting scheme has been installed at Lindeborgskolan school in Malmo, Sweden, aimed at improving pupil performance.
The human centric system replaced a fluorescent lighting scheme, a change which pupils claim has improved their concentration, making them feel more alert throughout the school day.
The automatically changing light variation includes a period of intense rather blue light in the morning, to wake the pupils up, and a warmer light during other parts of the day.
Teachers are able to change the colour intensity of the lighting to create a calming or a stimulating atmosphere when necessary. The human centric scheme has also eradicated flicker.
The new lighting was funded by the Department of Internal Services in the hope of bringing Swedish schools firmly into the twenty first century.
You can find out more about the Malmo project by watching the video above. You can also learn more about the debate surrounding human centric lighting by reading our article: Are we experimenting on school children?
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Rejuvenating light clinic opens at Harvey Nichols in London. PLUS: LED farm produces 12,000 lettuces a day. AND: GE biosensors monitor athletes at Rio Olympics. Lux Today August 16th 2016.
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Megaman’s Dino modern linear luminaires have been used within a new retail space at Poplar Garden Centre, Marks Tey, Essex.
Megaman’s Dino modern linear luminaires have been used within a new retail space at Poplar Garden Centre, Marks Tey, Essex. Ideal for internal or external installations, the Dino fitting offers a long life with low maintenance making it the perfect luminaire to replace existing T5 and T8 fluorescent luminaires.
Poplar Nursery is currently run by the third generation of the same family who started the business in 1938. The nursery has expanded over the years and now includes a farm shop and deli, restaurant, miniature railway and the latest addition this year, a new shop floor area for BBQ’s and patio furniture incorporating the Dino fittings. Installed by AD Mitchell Electrical Contractors Ltd, Colchester, the Dino linear luminaires fit the new retail area perfectly as the fittings blend into the ceiling space but offer excellent wide light distribution and high uniformity at 70% lumen at 50,000 hours. Due to their flexibility, the Dino fittings were also fitted in two general storage areas and a food cold store at the nursery.
Dino is available in 19.5W, 22.5W, 35W, 46W, 63W and 70W variations, the fitting has a UV resistant and corrosion proof casing making it suitable for harsh environments with an IP66 protection against water and dust and is IK08 vandal resistant. Dino also comes with Megaman’s 3-year warranty.
Call us on 0208-540-8287 to discuss your LED lighting needs, or visit our website: www.novelenergylighting.com to explore some of the range we can offer.
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Dubai supermarket is first with connected lighting
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Customers use the app to receive information relevant to the items around them such as special offers and they can even look up prices of items on their phone instead of on the shelves.
Lux reports: UAE supermarket chain Aswaaq has become the first retailer in the Middle East to install connected lighting which communicates with its customers.
Its supermarket in Al Bada’a, Dubai, now boasts so-called Visible Light Communication technology, which is imperceptible to the human eye but detected by smart phone cameras. The lights act as a positioning system which allows shoppers to find items in the store to an accuracy of 30cm.
Smart-phone owners must first download the Aswaaq-branded app. This allows their phone to communicate with the individual light points transmitting their location through the high-frequency modulation of the light. The data stream is one-way and no personal data is collected by the lighting system.
They use the app to receive information relevant to the items around them such as special offers and they can even look up prices of items on their phone instead of on the shelves. The store managers can use the system to identify the most popular areas of the store to better place products, as well as help streamline tasks such as stock checks and restocking shelves.
The project has been installed by Philips Lighting and an American specialist in ‘digital store mapping’, Aisle411.
Other retailers trialling visible light communication include Target in the US, and Carrefour at its hypermarket in Lille, France.
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Apple looks set to include a li-fi capability in future versions of the iPhone, meaning it can access high-speed data using lighting.
The backing of a tech giant like Apple would transform the technology from scientific curiousity into a mainstream technique for accessing the internet, and provide a huge boost to the lighting industry.
The iPhone’s operating system now openly references li-fi capability in its programming code.
Li-fi uses modulated visible light from LEDs to transmit data to enabled devices. It’s invisible to the human eye, and is much faster than traditional wifi.
Apple already holds a patent on using its camera to capture data as well as images, so the company is well placed to exploit the new technology.
It’s not the first time this year that Apple has been making news in the lighting industry.
Last month the company added a blue-light reduction feature into an update to its operating system in what was widely seen as the the first acknowledgement by a major manufacturer that blue light can be a health hazard.
In January Apple received its first ever patent for a lighting system, in a move that has again raised the issue of the company’s intentions in the lighting market.
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LA unveils world’s most advanced streetlights
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Los Angeles’ streetlighting network boasts wireless monitoring and control and 4G connectivity to boost cellphone performance. PLUS: Why Helena Bonham Carter is more intimate with connected LED lighting than most! Lux Today Nov 17 2015 is presented by Courtney Ferguson.
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Louisville lights Big Four Bridge with dynamic Philips LED system
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Editor in Chief, LEDs Magazine and Illumination in Focus:
Historic railway bridge over the Ohio River now carries pedestrians and cyclists and Louisville has added iconic LED architectural lighting.
Philips Lighting has announced an LED architectural lighting project installed on the historic Big Four Bridge that links Louisville, KY and Jeffersonville, IN across the Ohio River. The dynamic, color-changing solid-state lighting (SSL) is intended to help revitalize the Louisville waterfront and make the pedestrian and bicyclist bridge a destination point in the region.
The project is certainly not the first to use dynamic LED lighting to highlight a railroad heritage in revitalization efforts. For example, the Light Rails project in Birmingham, AL back in the fall of 2013 has drawn tourists and increased safety in Birmingham.
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Japanese LED traffic lights just too cool when snow falls
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| AFP/Jiji Press/AFP/File – Energy saving traffic lights in Japan are failing to melt snow covering them |
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How LED lighting will shape the cities of the future
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Published on 14 Jan 2015
Hear from the experts about how advancements in LED lighting will help make our cities smarter.
These interviews were conducted at a European high-level event under the Italian EU Presidency, co-organised by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), and the European Commission DG CONNECT Photonics which was held on 29 – 30 October 2014 in Rome, Italy.
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