Jennic’s wireless microcontroller family makes it easy to identify energy wastage through ineffective lighting and to add intelligence to automate the turning on, off, or dimming of a light. Intelligent lighting can easily resolve common inefficiencies:
- Streetlights remain illuminated throughout the hours of darkness, irrespective of highway/street usage, typically accounting for 40% of a city’s energy spend
- In our offices, schools and many public buildings, lights all too often remain switched on irrespective of room occupancy
- It is estimated that 54% of the conservable energy in a building comes from lighting, yet only 5% of commercial buildings today have any form of lighting management
Features that allow the efficiency of a lighting system to be significantly improved include:
- Remote self-diagnostics and reporting for improved service and maintenance scheduling
- Enhanced ballast control for maximising lamp lifetime
- Basic on/off/dim control of lamps
The JenNet networking stack offers a cutting-edge solution - it provides a wireless networking capability, which supports the communications infrastructure of typical dense and long-thin lighting networks. The self-healing capability of JenNet ensures that even in the event of an isolated node failure, the networking stack will automatically take steps to repair and re-route, increasing overall network performance and robustness.
Intelligent Streetlighting Whitepaper
Features
- Support of large dense or long-thin network configurations
- Self-healing capability for network robustness
- Co-existence with other wireless – Wi-Fi, Bluetooth
- Low cost solution
- Easy to use software APIs and hardware solution for rapid time-to-market
Benefits
- Addresses the energy challenge - minimises carbon emmisions
- Diagnostics is no longer manually intensive
- Service and maintenance scheduling is easy to plan
- IEEE802.15.4 at 2.4Hz is a solution for a global market