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February 18 2016 - 8:30AM
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LED Solution Combining Technologies From Both
Companies to Lower Costs and Simplify Networked Street Lighting for
Utilities and Street Light Operators
Today, Silver Spring Networks, Inc. (NYSE: SSNI), a networking
leader for the Internet of Things (IoT), announced that it is
developing a networked LED street lighting solution that will
interoperate with the Philips Advance Xitanium SR driver for
outdoor lighting, developed by Philips Lighting, a Royal Philips
(NYSE: PHG, AEX, PHIA) company and global leader in lighting. The
solution is expected to slash cost and complexity, simplify
connected lighting, give customers expanded choice, and accelerate
the path to smart cities for municipalities, utilities,
transportation departments, and other street light network
operators.
The new solution builds on the industry-leading Philips Advance
Xitanium SR LED driver, which includes new capabilities to enable
wireless systems for outdoor connected lighting, and Silver
Spring’s IPv6-based Gen5 networking platform for large-scale
wireless sensor networks. The solution includes an outdoor lighting
control (OLC) from additional Silver Spring ecosystem partners
based on the NEMA 7-pin socket for integration by OEMs into light
fixtures. This will enable street light operators to leverage the
industry’s latest Internet of Things technology and establish a
platform for future smart city applications and services.
“As billions of devices become smaller and smarter, analytics
and other applications move to the edge, and large-scale networks
become cost-effective to deploy and manage, it is becoming
increasingly apparent that intelligent outdoor lighting is a
catalyst for broader IoT networks,” said Brandon Davito, Vice
President of Smart Cities and Lighting, Silver Spring Networks.
“With as much as 40% of a city’s energy budget consumed by public
lighting networks, the shift to connected LEDs is an obvious path
to energy efficiency, greater returns on civic spending, and
improved livability. We are proud to utilize technology from a
leader such as Philips to make it even easier to unlock these
benefits for our customers and communities.”
The combination of connected LED lighting with an open standard,
IPv6 networking platform helps cities, utilities, transportation
departments, and other network operators dramatically lower energy
consumption, improve operational performance, and improve public
safety. For example, by making it easy, practical, and less costly
to add sensing and wireless connectivity to every light fixture,
utilities and cities can have their lighting system provide useful
light-point specific data such as asset location, space use
patterns, active management and control of energy usage, and remote
dimming and illumination capabilities. Once the network canopy is
in place, the operators can then reinvest the operational savings
and add future IoT applications such as smart energy, water, and
gas metering, EV charging, environmental sensing, smart
transportation and traffic control systems, intelligent parking,
and many others, using the street light network as the back-bone
for these additional services.
“Silver Spring manages and operates some of the largest, outdoor
critical infrastructure networks on the face of the earth,” Davito
continued. “Networked street lights not only deliver immediate
benefits such as lower energy consumption and safer roads, but are
also the onramp to smart cities. Leveraging that investment for a
city, state, or even country-wide network, operators can
cost-effectively establish a multi-application network upon which a
wide array of smart city applications and sensors can be connected
in the future.”
About the Philips Advance Xitanium SR LED Driver
Philips Advance Xitanium SR LED Drivers standardize the digital
connection between the driver and sensor to eliminate the need for
multiple separate components and alleviate incompatibility issues
and time consuming configurations. These drivers now enable every
light fixture to be a wireless node, providing a fast, easy and
cost-effective way to add intelligence to LED luminaires and gain
access to the data they can provide. The SR platform was
successfully launched by Philips Lighting in 2014 for indoor
commercial office applications and will be available for outdoor
applications in 2016.
About Silver Spring Networks
Silver Spring Networks is a leading networking
platform and solutions provider for smart energy networks. Silver
Spring’s pioneering IPv6 networking platform, with over 22.9
million Silver Spring enabled devices delivered, is connecting
utilities to homes and business throughout the world with the goal
of achieving greater energy efficiency for the planet. Silver
Spring’s innovative solutions enable utilities to gain
operational efficiencies, improve grid reliability, and
empower consumers to monitor and manage energy consumption. Silver
Spring Networks’ customers include major utilities around the globe
such as Baltimore Gas & Electric, CitiPower & Powercor,
Commonwealth Edison, Consolidated Edison, CPS Energy, Florida Power
& Light, Jemena Electricity Networks Limited, Pacific Gas &
Electric, Pepco Holdings, Progress Energy, and Singapore Power,
among others. To learn more, please
visit www.silverspringnet.com.
Forward-Looking Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements about
Silver Spring Networks’ expectations, plans, intentions, and
strategies, including, but not limited to statements regarding the
scope of the collaboration between Phillips and Silver Spring
Networks and the benefits of the combined solution. Statements
including words such as “anticipate”, “believe”, “estimate”,
“expect” or “future” and statements in the future tense are
forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements
involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions, which, if
they do not fully materialize or prove incorrect, could cause the
results of either company to differ materially from those expressed
or implied by such forward-looking statements. The risks and
uncertainties include the successful collaboration between Philips
and Silver Springs Networks and the development of the combined
solution, as well as those described in documents filed with or
furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission by either
company. All forward-looking statements in this press release are
based on information available to Silver Spring Networks as of the
date hereof. Silver Spring Networks assumes no obligation to update
these forward-looking statements.
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