Chicago ready to install more than 350,000pcs LED street light

Recently, the city of Chicago, Illinois, announced that it will carry out the "Smart Lighting Project", aims to convert most of the city's outdoor lighting energy-saving LED light source. Chicago will also consider building lighting central network management system, possibly using lights deployed to expand its fiber optic network, enabling the city to offer new services. The parties to the Chicago Infrastructure Trust (CIT) to participate in this project has been issued a request for information (RFI), the deadline for 15 November.

Compared to other major cities, Chicago to LED technology has been relatively slow pace. For example, Los Angeles, Calif., Has deployed over 140,000 LED lights, and take the initiative to install a wireless network functions in the system.

However, Chicago reconstruction project could become one of the biggest transformation of solid-state lighting (SSL) carried out worldwide. CIT said inventories totaled 348,500 light outdoor lighting fixtures, including the City of Chicago and the Chicago Park District, all the streets, alleys, viaduct, road, lake front settings. These institutions responsible for the installation and maintenance of their lighting.

The mayor said that the project will allow the public sector to seek cooperation with the private sector in order to improve services and create new revenue. Leslie Darling CIT Executive Director, said: "This project is Infrastructure Trust created an opportunity for cooperation with the city, to achieve the modernization of the lighting community, at the same time for the city to save costs and improve energy efficiency."

More specifically, this street project hopes to build a network infrastructure for providing services unrelated to outdoor lighting. For example, a GE lighting project in San Diego, Calif., Is expected to become pillars of smart parking and other services yet to be determined.

RFI documents show that, in addition to outdoor lighting to become more efficient than the existing city and park infrastructure to enable service safety and quality of life in the area. RFI said the project will expand on this city street light control and digital services to assess fiber optic networks.