Milton Keynes City Council is working with Telensa to upgrade 58,000 streetlights across the city with projected energy savings of more than 60 per cent.
Milton Keynes City Council in the UK is aiming to offset rising energy prices by implementing smart streetlighting.
Connected streetlight solutions provider Telensa is working with the council and service provider, Ringway Milton Keynes, to upgrade 58,000 streetlights across the city.
Carbon-neutral goals
With energy costs increasing and an ambition to be carbon neutral by 2030, the council is looking at ways to reduce its electricity usage while still providing a safe level of streetlighting. The deployment is part of Milton Keynes’ wider upgrade programme which includes moving to energy-efficient LEDs.
Annual energy savings of over 60 per cent are forecast with carbon savings equivalent to 5 million kWh.
A key factor for the highways team was to strive for value for money as an outcome of the tender process, along with enhancing joint opportunities to reduce energy costs, improve social value and increase inward investment into Milton Keynes. Telensa, a Signify company, was able to demonstrate this with the potential for energy savings.
Using PLANet, Telensa’s software system, Milton Keynes will be able to schedule precisely when individual lights come on, and by how much, varying these schedules as needed. PLANet’s dashboard enables the council to fine-tune the service, helping to reduce the amount of energy consumed. Captured within the dashboard, the resulting savings are measurable and can be assessed by senior council members and made available to the public.
“With cost of energy continuing to rise and the need to move towards innovative solutions there is a clear priority to complete the street lighting LED conversion programme in Milton Keynes along with implementing a streetlight controls system to help to reduce energy consumption and achieve the carbon neutral agenda for our client, Milton Keynes City Council,” said Daniel Mullins, operations manager, Ringway.
Telensa is also exploring the possibility of helping the Ringway and Milton Keynes team make even further energy savings safely by using the council’s existing traffic counting radar system. This is something that Telensa has already done with other councils in the UK with strong results.
The data collected from the council’s traffic radars can be used by the Telensa system to control light levels further on Milton Keynes’ roads and streets.
“From an operations perspective, Milton Keynes will deepen its commitment to the public by complementing its after-dark visual checks with an automated system controlled by the latest software,” said Andy Gowen, chief executive officer, Telensa.
“The council currently relies on its own scouting activities, or members of the public, to find and report faulty lights. Now the Telensa system will alert the team to highlight a problem to respond to faults in a timely way and, with the intelligence provided, even predict problems before they arise.”
Telensa’s technology will also help the council to tackle the issue of ‘dayburners’ where faulty equipment fails to turn off the lights at sunrise.
Telensa’s PLANet is built using open interfaces and comes with plug-in application programming interfaces (APIs) enabling integration with other software systems used by the council.
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Quelle/Source: Smart Cities World, 04.04.2023
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