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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Luxmagazine reports that, Chepstow will soon become the latest British locality to turn off street lights during the wee hours, over the protests of taxi drivers who have provided yet another reason why it’s a bad idea: They might run over hard-to-see drunks.

‘The manager of Bulwark-based M & R Taxis, Chris Whittaker said turning off lights in residential areas was “incomprehensible” and said that in the early hours of the morning it’s difficult to spot people, who may have been drinking, as they cross the road,’ the South Wales Argus reported.

Chepstow on Aug. 28 will start turning off street lights between midnight and 5 in the morning in an effort save £180,000, part of a £9 million cost reduction plan by Monmouthshire council.

The Welsh town joins many other UK areas in making such a move. But while Loughborough, Exeter, Essex, Warwickshire and others are going dark, localities like Gloustershire and the Borough of Wigan are spending money on cost-saving LED street lamps, as the great Britsh streetlighting debate rages. If the switch off does indeed save Chepstow money, then perhaps a small celebration would be in order. But the locals should be well advised not to drink to that.

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