Clear Blue Technologies International Inc. (TSXV: CBLU) (FRANKFURT:
OYA), the Smart Off-Grid Company, in partnership with Metro-Tech
Sales & Consulting, Inc. announces the completion of a project
that provided Illumient solar lights to illuminate safety switches
in a Conrail operated switchyard in Greenwich County, New Jersey.
This project shows Clear Blue’s reliable smart off-grid lighting is
the valued choice for mission critical devices and safety
infrastructure in a variety of industries, where reliability and
off-grid power are key requirements.
“Given Clear Blue’s proven track record in providing reliable,
low-cost smart off-grid power to critical infrastructure, our
technology can support the mission critical safety requirements of
railway infrastructure,” said Miriam Tuerk, CEO, Clear Blue
Technologies. “The installation of our Illumient systems, for
illuminating train safety switches, demonstrates many possible use
cases across diverse multiple industry sectors.”
In 2019, to improve the safety and reliability of the railroad
switchyard, Conrail decided to implement a smart off-grid solar
lighting solution for this critical area. Ensuring reliable
lighting of the rail switches and without the grid were key
requirements for this project, which was completed in January of
2020.
Ron Stadler, Sales Representative with Metro-Tech, stated: “In
the railway industry, a slight misstep or mistake in switching
tracks or directing trains can have catastrophic results for both
the railroads and the public at large. Conrail was looking for
reliable power solutions to light their railroad switches, and many
of these switches are not near reliable power grid services, so it
wasn’t cost effective to develop the infrastructure. We knew that
the best off-grid solution would be Illumient as Clear Blue has
repeatedly proven the technology’s reliability and capacity in a
variety of mission critical off-grid applications.”
Demand for Solar Off-grid Lighting for Critical
Infrastructure
Clear Blue is seeing an uptake of solar off-grid lighting in a
variety of industries that are looking to increase safety,
resilience and security. In the case of railway switching, a
failure in lighting could have dire consequences resulting in
accidents causing death or environmental damage. For this reason,
mission critical infrastructures, including that in the railway
industry, have higher uptime availability and performance
requirements.
Clear Blue's Smart Off-Grid technology ensures the delivery of
reliable lighting services and proactive identification and
advanced management of failures or maintenance issues to avoid
service interruption. With the Illumience remote monitoring and
management service platform, customers can remotely know when the
system is working and how well it is performing. The technology
provides advanced notice of when a failure could occur so
preventative action can be taken. Extreme Weather Drives
Need for Reliability
Knowing how well a system is performing is particularly
important given the variety of extreme weather events that are
starting to become the new normal. Railway switches are critical
infrastructure and need to function through temperature extremes
and lack of sunlight. When those switches need lighting, it's
critical to make sure that those lights do their job. Clear Blue’s
focus is on mission critical infrastructure so the technology,
including the solar off-grid lighting solution: Illumient, is
specifically built to deliver maximum uptime through predictive
energy and weather forecasting.
Clear Blue's unique, patented predictive energy and weather
forecasting analytics provide the ability to forecast out the
service uptime over the next five days. Through this technique,
potential upcoming outages, due to winter storms or summer
heatwaves, can be anticipated and forecasted. The technology
doesn’t just identify the number of hours of sun per day (weather
forecasting), but then uses this information to identify how much
potential energy will be harvested from that sun (energy
forecasting) through information on the performance of the system,
the state of the battery and the amount of energy being
consumed.
This analysis can identify if the system will provide the
necessary service and if there is a discrepancy, then it can
anticipate this and manage through it. Clear Blue has the ability
to reduce the energy consumption and/or provide an emergency ride
through capability. In this way - the lights stay on ensuring the
safety and security of this key infrastructure. It delivers maximum
uptime through extreme weather events through Clear Blue’s patented
energy and weather forecasting, together with comprehensive light
load control.
Preventing and Managing System Outages
Ensuring maximum uptime is also about anticipating and
proactively managing failures and unforeseen outages. Clear Blue’s
unparalleled troubleshooting and remediation tools allow its
customers to see when trouble is coming, remotely address issues in
the 75% of cases where a service call isn’t needed, and remotely
managing power to remain operational even while a service crew is
deployed to undertake a repair. Plus, with Energy-as-a-Service
(EaaS) Clear Blue's service team, who are experts in off-grid
power, supports and operates the system for customers. This allows
customers to focus on their business, like effectively managing
freight rail services, while the energy experts at Clear Blue bring
expert off-grid power experience to ensure the lights stay on.
Clear Blue’s Illumient systems have previously been installed in
roadways, intersections, remote paths, busy city streets and even
barges in the middle of rivers. Illumient lighting systems can
include a LED light pole, solar panel or wind turbine, battery,
smart controller, an integrated wireless communications network,
and the Illumience cloud-based power management software. The
Illumience predictive weather and energy analytics, and the ability
to change lighting profiles online are used to preserve battery
power and ensure lighting service in all seasons of the year, while
reducing maintenance and installation costs. With reliable lighting
and a lower cost than installing grid infrastructure, Clear Blue’s
Illumient is the optimal choice for mission critical safety
systems.
About Metro-Tech Sales & Consulting,
Inc.
Celebrating over three decades of service excellence in the
lighting community, Metro-Tech Sales & Consulting, Inc., is a
recognized regional leader representing makers of outdoor lighting.
The company covers NJ, PA and DE for the highway, municipal and
commercial markets and is a strong regional player in the roadway
and decorative (municipal streetscapes) lighting market segments.
Solar lighting is the company’s fastest growing and most promising
market segment. Metro-Tech has been in business for 33 years and
has built many strong relationships with its customers, including
contractors, distributors, owners, consultants and municipalities;
by providing them with quality service and experience.
About Clear Blue Technologies International
Clear Blue Technologies International, the Smart Off-Grid™
company, was founded on a vision of delivering clean, managed,
“wireless power” to meet the global need for reliable, low-cost,
solar and hybrid power for lighting, telecom, security, Internet of
Things devices, and other mission-critical systems. Today, Clear
Blue has thousands of systems under management across 37 countries,
including the U.S. and Canada. (TSXV: CBLU) (FRANKFURT: OYA)
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