Latin America. A pilot plan began to develop in the city of Los Angeles with the wireless outdoor headlight controller that GE developed under the LightGridTM reference.
This program seeks to measure the performance of the system, which aims to give cities more experience when implementing LightGrid controllers in previously existing headlights. It also seeks to provide more insight into the performance of the system as a whole: from drivers to GE's central management software.
The results of this pilot project will serve as the basis for the manufacturer's intentions to market its systems in Latin America, according to Sergio Binda, Marketing Director for Latin America at GE Lighting.
"We are participating in the bidding of projects of this nature in Latin America, which demonstrates a trend towards the adoption of green standards, not only with LED technology, but through efficient energy management with tele-management of energy," he said.
This device allows you to control the turning on and off of public lighting, but the most important thing is that it allows you to know exactly what the consumption is by locality: at present, governments pay a fixed fee calculated based on the number of poles that exist when considering an average of 12 hours of use, since there are no meters like those used by houses.
The use of energy and information in lighting are continuously reported to the central management system, in which users can count on access through the Network. With detailed information about the street lighting system, a municipality can implement smarter energy-saving strategies through more accurate "lighting/off" operations, particularly with mid-night operations, when there is very low local traffic.
