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Sainsbury’s adds IoT capability in plan to go all-LED
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The ambitious plan will make the company the first grocery retailer in the UK to power all its supermarkets entirely by LED.
Sainsbury’s is to add Internet of Things capabilities to its lighting in an ambitious plan that will see all of its stores become 100 per cent LED by 2020, the retail giant has announced.
The plan will make the company the first grocery retailer in the UK to power all its supermarkets entirely by LED lighting.
Some 250,000 luminaires will be retrofitted in 250 superstores in the next three years in addition to those already installed during the company’s ongoing roll-out.
The new fixtures are part of a deal with Current, GE’s low-energy technology supplier, which will see energy used by the lighting reduced by 58 per cent.
Sainsbury’s sustainability chief Paul Crewe says customers expect the retailer to do the right thing on their behalf. ‘They can be reassured that, day or night, when they visit a Sainsbury’s supermarket, we’ve made a significant in-road into creating a greener supermarket for them.’
The lighting could also be used as a platform for sensors and beacons, allowing interaction with customers. GE’s Predix Internet-of-Things network can transform the lighting into a smart digital infrastructure that uses data and analytics to optimise energy usage, employee productivity and customer interaction.
Sainsbury’s sustainability chief Paul Crewe told Lux: ‘We’ve almost halved the carbon emissions of our stores since 2005, and in the last 12 months we’ve reduced our electricity use by 11.6 per cent despite growing our operation by 54 per cent’.
‘Our customers expect us to do the right thing on their behalf, and they can be reassured that, day or night, when they visit a Sainsbury’s supermarket, we’ve made a significant in-road into creating a greener supermarket for them.’
The project will support Sainsbury’s Sustainability Plan, which calls for carbon emissions by be cut by 30 per cent from 2005 levels. The target has spurred numerous energy efficiency and renewable energy initiatives across its many UK stores, from LED retrofits to solar panels, biomass boilers and ground source heat pumps. To date, Sainsbury’s has already cut absolute carbon emissions by more than 20 percent and is on track to achieve its 2020 target.
Current is delivering the massive lighting retrofit as a turnkey service, embedding financing with lighting design, product supply, installation and project management services.
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London Goes LED in Biggest Ever Streetlight Upgrade
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Over 35,000 London streetlights are to go LED in a massive ‘invest to save’ project.
Transport for London is to spend close to £11 million installing a central management system and upgrading 35,000 lights to LED by 2016.
Further upgrades will be made over the next 10 years, with most of London’s streetlights to be LED by 2023, as part of a £4 billion investment in the capital’s roads.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson said the project would bring lighting on the London’s roads ‘up to 21st century standards’.
Havard Engineering and CU Phosco – both winners at this year’s Lux Awards – will benefit from the work, with Havard winning a multimillion pound contract for the controls and CU Phosco picked as a preferred supplier for the post-top luminaires.
The controls system will be aligned with traffic flow and road usage, and will reduce maintenance costs by keeping track of light failures.
The programme aims to reduce carbon emissions by around 9,700 tonnes a year, delivering annual savings estimated at £1.85 million. Johnson said: ‘With tens of thousands of lights marking the way on our road network it makes complete sense to focus energy and resources on bringing them up to 21st century standards’.
‘This is the largest investment to modernise street lighting on major roads in our capital’s history and will not only cut carbon emissions and save money but it will also lead to even better and safer roads for Londoners’.
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