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The streetlights in Schenectady are soon going to be upgraded to LED lights, outfitted with advanced network lighting controls. Network lighting controls allow the City to develop dimming schedules to reduce lighting levels during off-peak hours. This dimming schedule will provide the City with additional energy savings and give officials the ability to control streetlights in critical situations. The same lighting controls provide National Grid with intelligence to increase quality of lighting services through benefits such as automated outage detection. This technology will effectively turn current streetlights in to smart LED streetlights capable of energy savings, outage detection, and improved lighting services.
Network lighting controls will give the City the following abilities: ambient lighting levels (photocell), dimming, scheduling, outage monitoring, energy consumption monitoring, asset tracking.
There are many benefits to these controls including: