Energy & Utility

Street Lights Management

Intelligent lighting management system enables remote control of 200,000+ street poles for a UK-based smart city solutions provider

Overview

An application was developed to control a complete lighting management model, supporting motion sensors and smart city solutions across the network. The system was structured around four core parts: nodes installed at every street lighting unit, sub-masters managing groups of nodes, masters overseeing groups of sub-masters, and a centralized back-office system tying it all together.

Customer

A leading UK-based provider of intelligent street lighting control systems, delivering smart lighting solutions, control hardware, and infrastructure management technologies.

United Kingdom

Challenge

Complexity in understanding the existing system developed using Delphi.
Unable to manage/communicate with all street lighting units because the client wanted to understand the nitty-gritty of the applications such as set their on/off timings based on geographical locations, increase/decrease the brightness level of every unit/street light based on the necessity of the area and time duration, etc. without traveling and with the ease of managing it from the back office.
Unable to build an easy interface to access the lighting network devices (nodes and sub-masters) and to perform operations like sending switch level.
Make the system completely automated so that it does not require any human intervention. At the same time, the system should have the ability to perform many of the operations manually.
Ability to specify a schedule for switching and the ability to add overrides for a specific duration. The system should automatically operate by following the schedules and operate the ON and OFF switches.
Seamless connections for smart city solutions including but not limited to photosensors, motion sensors. Smart city residents should have control over switching based on their need.
Inability to synchronize data with third party inventories and easily pluggable interface for various inventory systems.
Advanced reporting and dashboards.
Third-party systems should be able to access the CMS system functionality.
Make the fault-finding process easier for operatives when they go to the site for fixing the faulty nodes. Also helping them to perform real-time operations i.e. switch to level, requesting measurements to ensure the fault is fixed.
The system developed should keep a track of the performance of the operatives and their efficiency and accuracy of fixing the problems.
Make a robust CMS system such that the third party CMS and lighting networks could easily be integrated with CMS or outdoor lighting networks.
Security is the primary requirement and should not be compromised at any point of communication.
Unable to provide data instantly when something happens in the CMS system i.e. device creation, data collection, lamp failures.
Unable to save Cost in hosting infrastructure.

Solution

With the help of our .NET development services, team we developed a
smart web-application namely “Intelligent Light Management System” which provides easy accessibility
of the applications via the internet from anywhere and at any point in time. Microsoft products like
Azure cloud services along with .NET(C#), Google Maps were perfect fit for our project. Our solution offers multiple industry-first features which includes but not limited to

Expertise

Tools & Technologies

ASP.NET MVC
C#
WCF
Web API
IIS
SSRS reporting
Crystal Reports
Entity Framework
Microsoft SQL Server
Google maps
Open Street Maps
DevExpress dashboard
Azure MqTT
Azure SignalIR
Azure App service
Azure AD and ADB2C Authentication
Axure App services

Result

As a leading software development service provider, Ludych developed a complete Lighting Control system. This solution represents a digitally advanced stature of the organization for managing street lights and associated illuminated equipment. With this solution, users can dynamically control each individual lighting unit from the comfort of their homes or offices.

Monitor and control switching and dimming
Manage energy consumption and billing
Report faults automatically
GPRS and Soap service-based communication with the devices
Configuration of 200,000+ street poles getting managed by the software
Extensive functionalities with Google map and open street map and easy interface for lighting network representation
Switching regimes which functions based on photosensors (sunlight) or predefined time
Support for accepting switching commands from motion sensors or smart city user group
Integrations with inventory systems for street light management companies
Graphical view of implemented lights, current status, faultiness, etc.
Generate and clear faults automatically by analyzing measurement data
Generate consumption data automatically based on switching history
Rich dashboard helps in understanding the behavior of various areas of the system
Started making the CMS system as TALQ compliant
Mobile application helps operatives make the fault fixing process easier and provide testing tools after fixing the fault.
System provides stats for administrators to measure the efficiency and accuracy of operatives.
System provides various utilities that help perform some administrative operations that will help correct the system if something goes wrong on the production server.
Posting payloads to MqTT and SignalR clients to report data when a device is created or deleted or measurement data is collected or lamp failure is reported.
Started hosting on cloud services like Azure App services.

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