and

Energy saving, reduced maintenance costs,

increased lighting service and safety/security
for your Outdoor Lighting networks

DESCRIPTION OF THE
STREETLIGHT MONITORING
SOLUTION FROM
STREETLIGHT.VISION AND SELC

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Streetlights, strategic but expensive assets for a city

The streetlight network is a strategic asset for a city.
Streetlights illuminate the roads we drive on, the
pedestrian paths we walk along and the public areas
where we gather. It provides us with safe roads, inviting
public areas, and enhanced security in our homes,
businesses, and city centers. Streetlight networks are also
strategic as a potential peer-to-peer network that could be
leveraged as a city communication network that could be
operated or subcontracted, at a later stage, for
environmental data metering, internet communications and
distribution of city information and advertising.
But the number of streetlights in a city and their wide
geographic distribution make them difficult and expensive
to operate: lamp replacements every four years,
manpower and service trucks for onsite maintenance
operations, increasing cost of electricity and outdated
luminaires to retrofit. Street lighting systems add to carbon
dioxide (CO, the principal greenhouse gas) emissions or
nuclear dust from the production of electricity required to
power the system. Light pollution also has a negative
affect on the environment, impacting plants, animals and
peoples sleeping habits.
Did you know that the 90 million streetlights installed in Europe are consuming a total estimated 450
TWH representing an estimated cost of 45 billion US$ per year to cities and being responsible for 180
million tons of CO each year ?
Why cities are adopting monitored streetlight systems?
The increased pressure for sustainable development, green and eco cities, reducing maintenance
budgets and increasing safety and security for citizens are now pushing cities to find solutions to
reduce their spending on streetlight networks while continuously improving light efficiency and
safety. The increasing price of electricity is, by itself, responsible for the majority of the increase in
streetlight operation budgets. It is now becoming strategic and compelling for cities to implement
solutions to identify streetlight failures as well as to measure, analyze and reduce electricity
consumption, in order to reduce energy spending, decrease maintenance costs, challenge their
electricity providers and contribute to the reduction of CO emissions, as required by the Kyoto
Protocol and local governmental initiatives.

Once streetlights are inventoried and lamps wattage are optimized not to deliver too much lumens on
the ground, cities can apply the European directives in order to save another 40% on energy
consumption and on maintenance costs. In summary, these recommendations consist in:

Replacing traditional magnetic ballasts by electronic dimmable and communicating ballasts

Dim the lamps in the middle of the night to reduce energy consumption when less light is
required

Automatically identify lamp failures to reduce onsite operations and maintenance costs and to
increase citizens safety and security by delivering enhanced lighting service.

Streetlight.Vision provides a solution to cities and streetlight maintenance companies, to

implement all of these recommendations and benefit from significant energy and maintenance savings
within a fast Return-On-Investment (ROI).

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Streetlight.Vision, energy and maintenance saving system

Streetlight.Vision is a software and consulting company, specialized in monitoring, control and
command software for wide network of streetlight and any other electronic device installed in a city:
traffic lights, pollution sensors, advertising screens, decoration lighting, parking, cameras, etc
The Streetlight.Vision solution aims at providing cities and streetlight maintenance companies with
energy and maintenance savings as well as lighting service quality and security enhancements. To
reach these goals while being robust and open to evolution, the solution is composed of the following
four hardware, software and telecom components:
1. Communicating Node
in each streetlight
Powerline or Radio
communication

4. Central Streetlight.Vision
data aggregation server,
Monitoring Web Portal
and Information Center

3. Secured
telecom network

2. Streetlight Segment Controller in each

cabinet in the street
Powerline or radio communication

Streetlight.Vision designs and markets a ONE-STOP-SHOP solution that is composed of:

1. Electronic dimmable ballast and its communication nodes (installed in each streetlight)
that are the most robust electronic ballast on the market. Their communication node is based
on standardized technologies and protocol and enables lamp dimming, failure identification
and data metering. Streetlight.Vision markets the electronic dimmable ballast and
communication node from SELC (Ireland).
2. Streetlight Segment Controller (installed in each feeder pillar) that are certified by
Streetlight.Vision to be compatible with the certified communication nodes and to provide the
expected services including astronomical clock (switch ON/OFF at dawn/dusk), scheduler to
dim the lamp during the night, local datalogging, data communication over open TCP/IP
networks and remote control through the Streetlight.Vision web portal. Certified streetlight
segment controllers are manufactured by third party partner companies and resold by
Streetlight.Vision.
3. The Streetlight.Vision system supports any type of TCP/IP telecom networks (GPRS, ADSL,
Wimax, Wifi, BPL) provided by your local telecom operator which can provide various level of
services and security.
4. The central Streetlight.Vision Monitoring Software is designed and marketed by
Streetlight.Vision. Its role is to aggregate and filter data from hundred thousands of streetlights
through thousands of streetlight segment controllers and transform them into meaningful
business information, delivered to streetlight operators through the Streetlight.Vision Web
Portal and to third party applications through the open software interfaces (web services, sql,
RSS data flow).
Streetlight.Vision is a Central Streetlight Monitoring System (also called CMS or CSMS)
It enables the remote configuration of your streetlight network (including daily operations and
dimming schedules), the analysis, the monitoring and the remote control of the whole streetlight
network from a central service center, through a secured web connection.

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Streetlight.Vision, to save up to 40% energy and associated CO emissions

The SELC electronic dimmable ballast/node can dim the existing lamp installed in the streetlight.
The streetlight maintenance operator can now configure and optimize its dimming strategy per
streetlight or per cabinet. Most of the streetlights and most of the lamps
(e.g. high-pressure sodium) can be dimmed down to 60% between
midnight and 4am. The impact of reduced lighting has been studied by
streetlight experts through audits and is now recommended by energy
saving agency throughout Europe.
SELC electronic dimmable ballasts are lower consumers of electricity (3
watts in average compared to the 15 watts for conventional magnetic
ballasts) and are not consuming (almost) any reactive power compared
to the average 30% of reactive power consumed by a conventional
magnetic ballast.
A city of 1 million inhabitants could save up to 3 millions euros on its
electricity budget per year by installing the Streetlight.Vision solution
together with electronic dimmable ballasts. As one KWH of electricity
produces an average of 400 grams of CO (at production), the
Streetlight.Vision solution contributes to save tons of CO by reducing
electricity consumption.
For information, the Streetlight.Vision solution also monitors and controls
power regulators and variators which are installed in (or close to) the
supply cabinet. Such power regulators and variators can dim the whole
energy that is delivered on the electricity supply network. Streetlight.Vision has certified two power
regulators and variators that can be controlled. Contact Streetlight.Vision for more information on
this matter.
Streetlight.Vision, to drastically reduce maintenance costs
The Streetlight.Vision system identifies and displays all the failures from the lamp, the ballast and
the streetlight segment controller right on the desk of the streetlight maintenance contractor. It
automatically collects, aggregates, analyzes, lists and sorts streetlight failures and enables to
handle alarms to be remotely warned.
Cities and streetlight maintenance companies can now reassign
maintenance crews at night to added-value tasks and remotely handle
any technical problem and operation, thus reducing costs of onsite
operations.
Streetlight.Vision, to enhance lighting service and security/safety
By automatically identifying ballast, controller and lamp failures, streetlight
downtime are now reduced to one or two days maximum instead of up to
several weeks in the past.
Streetlight.Vision, control from anywhere at anytime for any device
Thanks to the Streetlight.Vision solution, any authorized end-user
(maintenance operators as well as majors) gets meaningful information to
fit his own need: from very technical historical data per streetlight to high
level business indicators to estimate energy savings and reduction of CO
emission.
Streetlight.Visions solution is based on an open and standardized protocol
(named EIA709 in Europe, also called LonWorks), thanks to which it controls
and monitors any compatible communicating node and electronic ballast.
Streetlight.Vision recommends the electronic dimmable ballasts/node from
SELC (Ireland) for its robustness and rich set of features. Thousands of
other electronic devices and sensors are compatible with this protocol that can produce data
(pollution, air quality, humidity, traffic, advertising and information boards, etc) which can be
aggregated, analyzed and displayed in the Streetlight.Vision Web Portal. The Streetlight.Vision
solution aims at becoming the Data and Monitoring Center of the City.
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Streetlight.Vision, technical architecture

The architecture of the Streetlight.Vision solution is summarized on the scheme below:

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Streetlight.Vision solution: electronic ballast and communicating nodes

The SELC electronic dimmable ballast can be fully remotely controlled by the Streetlight.Vision
software. The Streetlight.Vision software enables to:

Remotely configure and commission the nodes on the powerline network

Switch on and off the lamp remotely
Dim the lamp to any level that is supported by the lamp
Automatically identify failures
Get detailed data (voltage, lamp feedback, ) to troubleshoot any failure
Get the number of running hours as calculated by the SELC electronic dimmable ballast to
anticipate lamp change before they fail
Get the energy consumption from the SELC electronic ballast to calculate and display the
aggregated energy consumption for a whole geographic zone or a city.

SELC electronic ballasts perfectly fits with the Streetlight.Vision software

From a technical point of view, SELC electronic ballasts are proven to be amongst the most robust
and feature-rich on the market. They exploit open communication protocol to fit with the city open
tender processes. They are fully supported by the Streetlight.Vision software to provide a short
return-on-investment to end-client.
Streetlight.Visions certified Streetlight Segment Controller
In all projects, the certified Streetlight Segment Controller is the iLON100 (designed by
ECHELON, USA), that is specially configured and
distributed by Streetlight.Vision. One Streetlight Segment
Controller is installed in each supply cabinet and can
support up to 150 streetlights. The same Streetlight
Segment Controller supports Lonworks compatible nodes
as well as power regulators/variators. Its role is to:

Switch ON and OFF the lamps using its internal

astronomical clock or using an external photocell. For
the UK market, one of the certified node (together with
its electronic ballast) can also be switched at dusk and
dawn using a photocell on the streetlight.
Dim the lamps using its internal schedulers. Schedulers can be configured through the
Streetlight.Vision software to dim a group of lamps at a certain time in the night. The real time
clock of the Streetlight Segment Controller sends commands to the selected nodes at the
given time to perform the commands.
Datalog all data measured by the ballasts/nodes, including lamp failures, lamp level feedback
(can be used for energy billing and service quality), energy consumption, running hours,
voltage and current, etc
Send all recorded data to the Streetlight.Vision M2M Data Collect module through through
standard and widely adopted networks such as GPRS, ADSL, WiFi, WiMAX or BPL
(Broadband Over Powerline).
Enable remote control (switch and dimming) of each group of streetlight, of each individual
streetlight and of external input/outputs devices located in the cabinet.

Refer to appendix 2 for more technical information.

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Streetlight.Vision, the Central Streetlight Monitoring Software

Streetlight.Vision is the first open centralized and online Streetlight Management and Monitoring
software Platform. It is designed to be independent from the hardware components (ballasts,
nodes and streetlight segment controllers) to enable cities and streetlight maintenance companies
to get the best hardware components at the best prices. Nevertheless, Streetlight.Vision
recommends the SELC electronic ballast/node/filter.
The Streetlight.Vision Monitoring Software is
composed of three complementary components
running on a single standard central PC:

Streetlight.Vision Design and Admin To be

used at design and configuration time
This web-based software module enables
administrators to fully configure streetlight
segment controllers, commission ballasts/nodes,
group streetlights, configure schedulers and
astronomical clock, position the streetlights on
maps to ease daily operations and create/modify
users and user groups. This software module is
delivered on the flash disk of the web-enabled
streetlight segment controller (for offline usage) as well as in the Streetlight.Vision full package
(for online usage).

Streetlight.Vision M2M Data Collect Middleware software, transparent for end-users

This software module is installed on a centralized PC server and collects datalogs from
thousands of streetlight segment controllers. It filters, aggregates and stores those data as
meaningful information in a central open SQL database. Unlike most of the telemonitoring
software, the Streetlight.Vision software collects data in a transparent and automatic manner,
without any manual action from an operator. It identifies data collect failures and generates
alarms when appropriate.

Streetlight.Vision Web Portal End-user

interface
for
streetlight
maintenance
operators
The Streetlight.Vision Web Portal provides
with 7 web business applications to
authorized end-users, of which streetlight
failure identification and troubleshooting,
energy efficiency analysis, lamp preventive
maintenance, remote control for special
operations, lamp dimming configuration,
business indicator and geomap data display.
These applications have been designed with end-users and streetlight maintenance
companies to be intuitive and operational. Screenshots are provided in appendix 1. Online
demonstration is available on request to contact@streetlight-vision.com.

The Streetlight.Vision software can easily be branded for your own city or to be resold as a solution by
your company. The Streetlight.Vision solution can also be resold as an online service by Application
Service Providers who would sell monthly subscription to this online Streetlight Service Center.
Several of our reselling partners including SPIE and ABB are already engaged in such a recurrent
business strategy. The Streetlight.Vision Web Portal is also designed to provide meaningful
information (failures, energy consumption in a timeframe) to existing third party applications such as
billing energy applications, work order management tools and GIS.
Streetlight.Vision, selected in most of the large projects in Europe
The Streetlight.Vision solution is awarded GREENLIGHT solution by the European Union
(sponsored by the European Intelligent Energy program). Each client and partner of
Streetlight.Vision can benefit from this label by installing our solutions.

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Streetlight.Vision, customer case study

The Streetlight.Vision solution has been adopted by large streetlight maintenance companies and
cities in Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Spain and the UK. The solution is not
only designed for large cities, the benefits apply to all cities of all sizes:

Large cities such as Oslo (Norway) have reduced the overall costs associated with their
streetlight network by almost 50%. (Refer to Echelons press release for more information:
http://www.echelon.com/company/press/oslolights.htm)

Smaller cities whose streetlights are monitored by large streetlight maintenance companies
can also benefit. As the Streetlight.Vision solution is based on a Web portal, it can handle
multiple cities within the same central database and server. Members from each city can
access and display its own information related to its own streetlight network.

Background and challenge

The customer case study below describes one of the projects installed in a
16.000 habitants city, a tourist resort with the most beautiful beaches in
Brittany, the western part of France. International commitments to tackling
climate change, rising energy prices and European directives on energy
efficiency have moved the city to consider measures to reduce energy
consumption. The city was also very concerned about the efficient use of
its citizens taxes and about security. In 2005, the city had two main
challenges:
1. Reduce energy consumption to contain electricity costs while
attaining a 20% reduction of CO emissions.
2. Reduce the number of lamp failures and lamp down time to avoid potential security issues for
drivers and inhabitants.
Solution
SPIE, one of the largest streetlight
maintenance
companies
in
Europe,
proposed the Streetlight.Vision solution.
Before deploying the solution to the citys
120 supply cabinets and 3100 streetlights,
the city and SPIE first decided to install the
solution in a smaller pilot site comprised of
one cabinet and 44 streetlights to measure
the benefits of the solution during 12
months. The Streetlight.Vision solution was
installed in November 2005.
The solution is comprised of:
1. Each luminaire is equipped with a 70W, 100W or a 150W electronic dimmable ballasts from
SELC (Ireland) provided by Streetlight.Vision. They communicate utilizing a LONWORKS node
that is certified by Streetlight.Vision and installed in the luminaire, as a complement of the
ballast.
2. Each supply cabinet is equipped with a certified streetlight segment controller that enables
bidirectional communication over GPRS with the central Streetlight.Vision streetlight
monitoring software. It automatically switches on and off the mains using its internal
astronomical clock and dims the ballasts during the night to save electricity when less light is
needed on the ground.
3. France Telecom (largest telecom operator in France) is providing a Virtual Private Network
(VPN) over their GPRS network.
4. The Streetlight.Vision M2M Data Collect software collects, aggregates, transforms and stores
data coming from all streetlight segment controllers in a central, open database which is
installed at the SPIE IT center, located in Paris (France).
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5. The Streetlight.Vision Web Portal provides intuitive end-user Web reports designed for
maintenance operators (failure detection and troubleshooting, dimming configuration,
installation assistance) as well as for managers (service quality indicators, energy
consumption analysis).
Benefits
As demonstrated by the Streetlight.Vision monitoring software and confirmed by the city and by SPIE,
the solution brings the following measurable benefits:

46% reduction in KWh consumption resulting in an approximate 30% reduction in streetlight

electricity costs. The projected electricity cost savings is 80.000 $ per year.
Projected carbon dioxide savings for the city is 70 tons per year, corresponding to the 46%
reduction in electricity consumption.
Streetlight failure identification within hours, thus providing a 90% reduction in average lamp
downtime.
Prevention of future lamp failures by triggering alarms when the lamp voltage exceeds
recommended levels.
Expected 20% savings in lamp replacement budget due to the way electronic ballasts drive
high-pressure sodium lamps.
Number of onsite maintenance operations is reduced by a minimum 30%. The software
enables most of the operations to be performed remotely.

The streetlight segment controller is used to log and report lamp failures, lamp behavior (voltage,
dimming level), energy consumption and burning hours. It may later collect information from traffic and
weather sensors to adapt lamp dimming levels. The astronomical clock switches on and off lamps
depending on the actual position of the sun. Lamps are dimmed at fixed time thanks to the internal
scheduler during low activity hours in the night. Significant energy savings result from this highly
efficient and recommended method of controlling light levels.

The major of the city is convinced by the measurable financial savings and eco-impact
The mayor of the city is convinced of the benefits of the Streetlight.Vision solution. He agreed to be
interviewed for a promotional video where he says: The SPIE Company has helped provide the
municipality with a cost-effective solution which is saving us a lot of money in the next years, while
contributing to our strategic sustainable development plan. Were now extending it to the entire city
and promoting it to other cities.

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Streetlight.Vision, towards an online city monitoring center

Pushed by the increasing consciousness about climate change and the fast growing price of
electricity, cities are keen to deploy solutions such as Streetlight.Vision that have proved to bring
energy savings and increased service quality, while providing a clear vision about future possibilities.
Rapid market growth for the LONWORKS based solution
The number of pilot sites in Europe has grown from less than five in 2005 to above 30 in 2006.
Streetlight maintenance companies such as SPIE (France) are planning to roll out the solution in more
than 50 cities in France and Belgium in 2007. Since September 2006, twelve new streetlight
maintenance companies and integrators have started to work with the Streetlight.Vision system and to
propose them to their customers in Europe, Canada, the US and China.
Extending the network beyond streetlights
The Streetlight.Vision solution makes it possible to easily extend the solution to collect environmental
data such as pollution ratio, air composition, humidity, temperature, traffic and noise levels as well as
advertising and information distribution on displays in the streets. Cities can now leverage this
valuable information and ability to remote control to increase their knowledge database for strategic
planning. With Streetlight.Vision, the investment to install the infrastructure (segment controllers,
telecom network, monitoring software) can be reused for many applications.
It is envisioned that more than half of the cities who evaluate the Streetlight.Vision monitoring solution
will deploy this solution and will then further extend the networks to other application domains within
the next 24 months. Streetlight.Vision aims at becoming the city monitoring solutions.
Streetlight.Vision, a strategic solution for Cities
Thanks to its openness, the Streetlight.Vision system offers a strategic tool for cities to increase its
control while optimizing its budgets. It offers a strategic opportunity to service companies to
develop new added value services and new profitable business models.

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Appendix 1. Streetlight.Vision screen captures

The failure detection application lists

all the failures identified by the
software and enable a drill-down
analysis to focus

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The streetlight monitoring

application enables to remotely
control and command each individual
streetlight as well as each group. It
also enables remote change of
dimming schedules and astro clock

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The energy analysis application

provides estimates of the electricity
savings and efficiency label for a
certain timeframe in any geographical
zone in the city

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