London Project Will Control 14K Street Lights Via iPad
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- November 5, 2012 11:45am EST
London officials have approved a plan to upgrade the City of Westminster's 14,000 street lights with "smart" lights that can be monitored and controlled by an Apple iPad.
As reported by West London Today, the Westminster City Council approved a plan to update its street lights over the next four years following a successful pilot program.
Once these smart lamps are up and running, they can be controlled by an iPad and alert technicians when they need repair - or are about to malfunction, WLT reported. A worker could also stand underneath a given lamp and lower or raise its brightness using controls on the iPad.
The project will cost about £3.25 million, but the council said it will make up that money in energy and cost savings over the next seven years. Citizens can then expect about £420,000 a year in savings by 2015.
According to WLT, U.K. officials have discussed the option of shutting off street lights around the country to save money, but that was not feasible in the densely populated and heavily trafficked Westminster area.
No word on if other operating systems will be supported. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement department here in the U.S. recently ditched BlackBerrys for iPhones and said it selected iOS over Android because Apple's OS was more secure.
London officials, meanwhile, will now have the option to deploy a smaller iPad with the arrival of the iPad mini. For more, see PCMag's hands on.
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英國倫敦市計劃在未來4年裡對威斯敏斯特的街道照明系統進行重大升級。該市已決定投入325萬英鎊安裝1.4萬個新型節能路燈。
這些新路燈最令人感興趣的地方在於，它們全部是“智能路燈”，在需要維修或更換時，可以借助iPad應用來提醒工人。此外，技術人員還可以通過iPad應用來控制每個路燈的電量輸出，進一步提高效率。
倫敦市議會表示，打造智能路燈網絡的初期投入會在7年內全部收回，原因是新型路燈的運營成本更低。這也是英國城市首次大規模推廣智能街道照明系統。據稱，從2015年開始，新型路燈網絡每年將會給倫敦納稅人節省42萬英鎊的電費。
鑒於“智能路燈”益處多多，我們可以預見其他現代化城市將來也會採用類似的智能照明系統。(清辰)
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