Taking a smart initiative towards energy saving, The Netherlands’ Delft University of Technology is experimenting with a new street light system on its premises. The system is envisaged to save up to 80 percent electricity, reduce CO2 emission, and also keeps a tab on light pollution. Energy saving has become the cry of the hour. Very often we come across energy saving tips that advice us to not leave lights on while leaving a room.
However, a huge amount of energy is wasted from the street lights, belonging to the various cities all around the globe, as they are kept on all night long, even when the streets are left deserted. In order to minimize this huge loss of resources, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands has come up with a sophisticated street-lightning system which has been infused with the capacity of reducing energy loss and CO2 emission and also giving a check to the widespread light pollution.
The new street-lightning system is intelligently built, with some high-end technologies. There are LED bulbs which provide illumination, after being triggered by motion sensors. When a traveler or a passing vehicle approaches the street light, it is detected by the sensor which triggers the illumination up to 100 percent. Once the commuter passes by, the illumination goes back to 20 percent. It is more like a “Pool of Light” that precedes and follows a person, wherever he goes.
The lights are wireless and they communicate with each other or with the central control room, with the help of a wireless communication system. The central control room is also notified, in case any failure occurs. One of the shortcoming of the system, that is being worked on, is to prevent the lights from being activated by insignificant things like a swaying branches or wandering cats. This Delft University product will be named as Tvilight and will be implemented very soon.
Via: Gizmag
