The City of White Bear Lake & Echelon Add IBM Watson IoT-Powered Weather Adaptive Lighting Application to Existing Outdoor Li...
February 27 2017 - 2:23PM
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Automatically optimizes light levels, colors
and schedules based on changing weather conditions
Internet of Things pioneer Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ:ELON) is
expanding its successful deployment of “white tunable” connected
street lighting in White Bear Lake, Minnesota with weather adaptive
capabilities powered by its collaboration with IBM Watson Internet
of Things (IoT).
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Teaming with the municipal leaders of White Bear Lake and design
firm Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc., the company is deploying its
weather adaptive solution alongside the white tuning solution
recently implemented at the city’s Railroad Park. Combining the two
advanced adaptive control capabilities enables city managers to
take advantage of smart controls that adjust park lighting based on
real-time weather data as well as activity levels or time of day.
For example, lights can be pre-programmed to adapt automatically to
real-time weather changes according to predefined preferences, such
as a brighter level and a warmer color during a snow storm to
minimize glare or a cooler, bluer color during thunder storms to
improve visibility. Research suggests that this bluer color, which
blocks the release of sleep-inducing melatonin, is ideal for
creating greater alertness under adverse weather conditions.
“We are extremely excited to expand this proof of concept
with weather enabled cognitive capability through
the use of the IBM Watson IoT platform," says Sohrab Modi, CTO and
VP of Engineering for Echelon. “Through this pragmatic expression
of IoT and big data, the Echelon platform demonstrates just what a
smart city can look like and how it can enrich the lives of its
residents."
IBM Watson IoT is a cognitive system that learns from and
infuses intelligence into the physical world. By combining IBM
Watson IoT data with Echelon’s IoT connected street lighting
architecture, municipal leaders gain significant insights which the
intelligent control platform uses to automatically respond in ways
that improve public safety. IBM Watson IoT capabilities closely
align with Echelon’s promise to municipalities – to enable them to
more cost-effectively leverage innovations in technology that drive
safety and sustainability initiatives.
Echelon’s next-generation, connected LED lighting control
technology enables municipalities to realize the full scope of LED
street lighting benefits, from improved public safety and reduced
energy consumption and reduced maintenance and costs, to better
health, quality of life and environmental comfort. It also serves
as a platform that allows smart cities to integrate IoT
applications as desired. Coming together to create this
next-generation infrastructure is Echelon’s new CLP 4000 connected
lighting controller, SmartServer™ 2.2 converged universal gateway
and LumInsight® central management system (CMS).
The Lumewave by Echelon weather adaptive service leverages data
captured by IBM's The Weather Company’s network of more than
200,000 Personal Weather Stations. This data is incorporated into
IBM's Watson IoT platform and made available to the LumInsight CMS
in making intelligent lighting decisions. Using the latest secure
web and IoT connectivity, Echelon’s controls then adjust the
lighting color temperature or brightness levels according to
specific weather conditions, balancing the need for sustainability,
while enhancing safety and comfort.
“Adding the weather adaptive capability to the newly deployed
white tuning proof of concept in White Bear Lake was a natural
progression,” notes Ken Taillon, Manager of Municipal Lighting
Services, Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc., who led the project
engineering. “Expanding the power of the control technology helps
us learn more about how real-time adjustment of LED lighting
improves the experience for occupants, and delivers new benefits
for the city.”
The combined solutions can set color and light level scenes
based on a pre-programmed schedule, sensor inputs, weather data or
manual adjustment.
Based on customer interest, Echelon expects to make this new
solution available more broadly in 2017.
About Echelon Corporation
For 25 years Echelon (NASDAQ:ELON) has pioneered the
development of open-standard networking platforms for
connecting, monitoring and controlling devices in commercial and
industrial applications. With more than 110 million devices
installed worldwide, Echelon’s proven, scalable solutions host a
range of applications enabling customers to reduce energy and
operational costs, improve safety and comfort, and create
efficiencies through optimizing physical systems. Echelon is
focusing today on two IoT (Internet of Things) market areas:
Creating smart cities and smart enterprises through connected
outdoor lighting systems, and enabling device makers to bring
connected products to market faster via a range of IoT-optimized
embedded systems. More information about Echelon can be found at
www.echelon.com.
Echelon, the Echelon logo, Lumewave by Echelon, LumInsight, and
SmartServer are trademarks of Echelon Corporation that may be
registered in the United States and other countries. Other product
or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their
respective owners.
This press release may contain statements relating to future
plans, events or performance. Such statements may involve risks and
uncertainties, the risk that Echelon's offerings by themselves or
combined with other applications or offerings do not perform as
designed or do not offer the expected benefits and savings; and
other risks identified in Echelon's SEC filings. Actual results,
events and performance may differ materially. Readers are cautioned
not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements,
which speak only as of the date hereof. Echelon undertakes no
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circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of
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