Intelligent street lighting

TU Delft is testing an intelligent street lighting system on its campus, which uses up to 80% less electricity than the current systems and is also cheaper to maintain. The system consists of street lights with LED lighting, motion sensors and wireless communication. This enables the installation to dim the lights when there are no cars, cyclists or pedestrians in the vicinity. Wireless communication between the street lights and a control room is also possible. The system was developed by alumnus Management of Technology Chintan Shah, who won a competition in 2010 with this concept for improving energy efficiency on the university campus. 

Watch a short impression of the intelligent street lighting system

Watch the extended version of the film with more in-depth information

• Read the press release of 11 july 2011
• Read more about the Campus Energy Challenge

The films were made by Roelf van Til, New-Energy.tv