Category: Street lighting remote management

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Importance of light pollution and how to reduce it

What is light pollution? It is the presence of anthropogenic and artificial lights in the night environment. Too much light pollution has consequences: it washes out starlight in the night sky, interferes with astronomical research, disrupts ecosystems, has adverse health affects and wastes energy. Street lights are needed in everyday life for various reasons: in addition to helping artificially extend...

3 September 2019 by Anna-Liisa
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A new era in smart street lighting

The end-to-end Smart City solution provider Nordic Automation Systems has released the first Zhaga book 18 compliant LoRaWAN™* luminaire controller. The LoRaWAN™ controller offers greater interoperability and presents a more affordable solution to increase the growth of intelligent street lighting systems. Growing electricity prices, increasing environmental requirements and expanding urban growth are driving the worldwide lighting market to high-efficient LED light...

3 April 2018 by Kärt
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Smart City street lighting solution for the first smart marina in the Northern Europe

Smart City solutions are becoming a major part of every city. These solutions would enable cities, including harbours to reduce costs and optimize operations as well to increase quality of life and overall safety. The most recent yacht harbour of Tallinn is located at the Western coast of Kopli Gulf at the beautiful Kakumäe peninsula. Its unique and high-tech infrastructure...

9 January 2018 by Kärt
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LoRaWAN Luminaire Controller sends signals from Estonia to Finland

When LPWAN technologies started to emerge a few years ago, the main argument for sale was the long range for the signal. Many tests were performed which showed the possibilities for the signal to reach over 100 km. Since 2012, when long range LoRa technology was acquired by Semtech, the development of the patented technology has grown rapidly with experiments...

21 August 2017 by Kärt