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A. A Power Line LonWorks node types of devices (such as energy counters, door opening sensors,
Power Line LonWorks nodes must be able to measure and or heaters) installed in the cabinet.
send data such as lamp status, lamp level, accumulated energy C. Street Lighting monitoring software
consumption of the streetlight, voltage, current, and cos φ (for
example, the ratio between active energy power and total Streetlight monitoring software installed on a central computer
energy power) over the power line network using the in a service center. This software serves as the data aggregator
ANSI/EIA 709.1 protocol[2]. for thousands of streetlight segment controllers. It must offer:
Power line communications bandwidth is a precious resource
for stable communication. Care must be taken in the design of (1) Administration tools to make it easy to install and
the ballast control nodes so that they do not saturate the configure electronic ballasts, Power Line LonWorks nodes, and
network. For this reason, LONMARK[3] certified nodes can be streetlight segment controllers.
configured to limit their bandwidth utilization. This degree of (2) Data aggregation methods to calculate failure ratio,
configurability works well in a commercial building or business indicators, and energy consumption information.
industrial environment where there are trained integrators (3) Intuitive end-user tools to let maintenance operators
installing the system. In the street lighting environment, such quickly and easily identify lamp failures, display energy
trained integrators may not be available, and it is desirable to consumption and other service-level business indicators, and
get a trial system installed and running very quickly with remotely control and command streetlights.
minimal installer interaction.
The frequency of communications can be set and controlled to The software is a bridge between the streetlights and the city’s
eliminate the need for an integrator to configure each node due (or the streetlight maintenance company’s) existing IT system
to two factors – the ballast control nodes only initiate and business processes. Information from the streetlight
communication on an alarm condition and the primary monitoring software can be leveraged by work-order
functions of the system (energy savings and outage detection) management applications as well as by energy billing
are pre-determined. For normal status updates, energy applications. The software also hides the technical complexity
consumption data, and other values, the ballast control nodes of monitoring streetlights and limits the skills required of end
wait to be polled by segment controller. In this way, power line users and reduces installation costs.
bandwidth is conserved so that the system design is not overly With streetlight monitoring software that provides intuitive
sensitive to the number of nodes on a distribution transformer. streetlight maintenance and business reports through a
While it takes longer to poll more nodes, the information 100-percent secured Web access to end users, streetlight
coming from the polled communications transactions is not maintenance companies can give their customers an online
time critical, so the polling can be done at a low duty cycle subscription to monitoring and business information including
leaving plenty of bandwidth available for higher priority tasks service-level indicators.
such as prompt alarm condition reporting.
III. INSTALLATION CASE
B. Street lighting segment controller The architecture described above have been adopted by most
Streetlight segment controllers located in the feeder pillar. The large streetlight maintenance companies in Europe and by most
controller is the gateway between the central streetlight integrators and cities in Austria, Canada, France, Germany,
monitoring software and the ballast nodes. Thus, streetlight Ireland, Norway, Spain, and the U.K.
segment controllers must support standard communication
layers including TCP/IP over GPRS, ADSL, WiFi, and CDMA
and provide a standardized Web service interface(such as
XML/SOAP) to receive data, send commands, and configure
the streetlight controller’s services. The controller must provide
the following services within an integrated package:
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IV. CONCLUSION Also, we expect that more than half of the cities that evaluate a
Streetlights are a large consumer of energy for cities, using up LonWorks Power Line based streetlight monitoring solution
to 40 percent of a city’s energy budget. If every city installed, will deploy it and then further extend the network to other
proposed system, this would go a long way to reducing energy application domains within the next 24 months. LonWorks
use worldwide and therefore reducing CO2 levels. Power Line based streetlight monitoring solutions will become
The monitored streetlight market is now becoming a city monitoring solutions.
high-volume and high-value market In 2007, we expect that
150 additional European cities will install a monitored REFERENCES
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In addition, 30 cities that piloted installations in 2006 will [2] ANSI/EIA-709.1, “Control Network Protocol Specification”.1998.
decide to deploy the solution and fully benefit from it. [3] http://www.lonmark.org
[4] http://www.echelon.com/company/press/oslolights.htm
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