GE lighting for the 3000 San Diego deploy intelligent LED lights

If our city want to thrive in this shift, must make intelligent city.'intelligent lighting system can help, for example, the city of the future to reduce congestion, offering free parking space, looking for a new bike lanes ideal location, to the police and medical workers provide real-time monitoring park and community environment, send alarm, etc.Currently, San Diego and Jacksonville two pilot cities is to collect data.This information will provide us has never been the point of view.

The pilot project in downtown San Diego, the main use of "smart city environment" GE Lighting Systems. This is the GE LED lights with the industrial network interconnection case, the network can use software analysis and data in the cloud so that interconnect devices.

2014, San Diego started using lighting. At that time, the city has installed a wireless network called LightGrid for remote evaluation and control more than 3,000 streetlights. Since then, San Diego can save more than 250,000 US dollars per year for electricity and maintenance costs.

San Diego pilot is the first intelligent lighting applications in the United States, mainly in the city's Little Italy (Little Italy) and the Gaslamp areas lighting transformation. All lights are equipped with sensors and computer vision software, can parking information, and other data input GE industrial network cloud platform Predix, and gain real-time analysis. San Diego deputy chief operating officer David Graham said: "The emergence of smart cities technology GE Santiago positive seemingly unlikely way to play a street a few years ago potential."

Potential applications of this system are endless. These data can help software developers build effective parking app, users can be directed to space, and then allow them to mobile payment.

Freeman imagine such a scene in the future: you can use the app reservation for dinner, and then find the fastest way to the restaurant, and then use the same app reserve a parking space.Freeman says: "calculate costs continue to drop, to start the sensor power are reduced. At the same time, wireless networks and WiFi network is growing in the city. These things together to make the city let a person very excited."