Energy saving in the street lighting control system—a new approach based on the EN-15232 standard

The street lighting is one of major components in total energy consumption in cities. The paper is focused on a concept of street lamp control systems and function organization with remote monitoring, to reduce maintenance costs and energy consumption. A new approach to the definition of functional...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Energy efficiency 2017-06, Vol.10 (3), p.563-576
Main Authors: Ożadowicz, Andrzej, Grela, Jakub
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Building automation
Building management systems
Control systems
Economics and Management
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy consumption
Energy costs
Energy Efficiency
Energy Policy
Energy usage
Environment
Environmental Economics
Exterior lighting
Lamps
Lighting
Lighting systems
Maintenance costs
Original Article
Power lines
Remote monitoring
Renewable and Green Energy
Sustainable Development
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:The street lighting is one of major components in total energy consumption in cities. The paper is focused on a concept of street lamp control systems and function organization with remote monitoring, to reduce maintenance costs and energy consumption. A new approach to the definition of functional strategy organization for outdoor lighting systems is introduced in the paper. Proposed functional strategies are based on four efficiency classes of building automation and control systems (BACS) defined in the EN 15323 standard. They have been formulated, analysed and eventually implemented and verified in real experiment street lighting installation. This outdoor lighting system, designed by the authors, based on LonWorks (the ISO/IEC EN 14908) platform with a power line communication aimed to control high-pressure sodium lamps. The street lamps are integrated nodes of a building management system (BMS). The results of experimental tests for the proposed functional strategies, implemented with various control scenarios, show that they provide a great potential in reducing energy consumption by street lighting installations. In particular, the energy use can be reduced even by 45 % in comparison to conventional street lighting system, especially without the use of monitoring and control.
ISSN:1570-646X
1570-6478
DOI:10.1007/s12053-016-9476-1