GE LED Intelligent lighting: save $ 250,000 for the City of San Diego in the United States
San Diego city government recently announced that they will collaborate with GE Lighting and introduce GE intelligent lighting systems including LED tunnel lights and LED street lights to transform its, road lighting of downtown area，which makes that the city of San Diego has become the first city using intelligence technology GE Light Grid TM in U.S. . The new lighting system will be placed in place on this spring. By then, the LED tunnel lights and LED street lights will not only bring more optimized and energy-efficient lighting for the city , but will save energy value of more than $ 250,000 per year for the local government.
The project highlights include:
The system began to the installation earlier this month and will be completed on spring 2014
Estimated that the annual energy savings for the City of San Diego reach 250,004 one thousand U.S. dollars.
After the project is fully implemented, 3,000 conventional street lights will be replaced with LED tunnel lights and LED street lights.
GE Light Grid TM smart technology and innovative GPS technology will accurately account the amount of energy use in every LED tunnel lights and LED street lights.
Decorative street lighting specially set embedded wireless control technology, so that the LED tunnel lights and LED street lights can retain the original historic designs
The new system will not only improve street lighting of San Diego , it will reform some of the city lighting system. Because this new technology automatically transfers data to the Light Grid network , accurate energy measurement will be carried out for each of the poles, so that the city government can pay for their actual energy consumption .
Todd Gloria, temporary Mayor of San Diego， said: "This lighting control technology will be the city's game -changer in this regard and the technological innovation will provide lighting equipment failure or damage to real-time data for us to exclude a lot of security risks . So, people can feel the improvement of safe performance , while the technology also preserves the historic character of the original lighting . "
Maryrose Sylvester， President and CEO of GE Lighting spoke : "We are very proud of the role the GE LED tunnel lights and LED street lights and Light Grid techniques are able to play in City of San Diego and around the world，the energy-saving performance of the LED tunnel lights and LED street light technologies introduced by this project is particularly prominent , which is more intelligent energy solutions . , once this technology is implemented , San Diego, will become more bright and we sincerely hope that this technology can benefit various cities around the world by the San Diego . "
Lorie Cosio-Azar，Project Officer of City of San Diego Environmental Services Department said: " the focus to create the City of San Diego shifting to the LED tunnel lights and LED street lighting retrofit mainly because that LED tunnel lights and LED street lights have a customizable brightness options and provide excellent lighting quality， we know LED tunnel lights and LED street lights will enhance the overall atmosphere of the city, whether we are local residents , businessmen, or tourists spending time coming here for the shopping, eating , we can feel more comfortable and pleasant atmosphere and unique charm communities . "Browsing http://www.lead-lighting.com/products/bid32-1.htm for more information about LED tunnel lights.
