Kropyvnytsky, the administrative center of Kirovohrad Oblast, with a population of 230,000 people, has become the first Ukrainian city to install smart street lighting.
The city, which is located some 300 kilometers from Kyiv, is setting up an intelligent telemanagement system for controlling street lighting. The system, made by company Owlet, will allow the operation of every street lamp in the city to be controlled remotely, for example by changing brightness or shutting down one particular lamp, to altering the lighting in an entire city district.
If one of the LED lamps malfunctions, a message will be sent to a controller’s computer or cellphone. The system can be controlled from any location via the internet using a web browser on a computer, tablet or smartphone.
Data about the system is saved in an open-source MySQL database and can then be used to carry out long-term analyses, such as ones on energy consumption or on comprehensive fault diagnosis.
“The system gives us a chance to make significant savings for the municipal budget,” says Dmytro Totok, the director of Kropyvnytsky’s communal street lighting provider Misksvitlo.
“For example, 33 lamps on the Sadova street when switched to a 10-percent energy consumption regime, will consume only 150 watts per hour.”
In comparison, the three dimmest types of tungsten bulbs, which are often used in table lamps, consume 120 watts per hour.
There are already 454 cities around the world using the system.
Kropyvnytsky has currently fitted out four of its streets with smart street lighting.
Kyiv Post staff writer Denys Krasnikov can be reached at [email protected].
