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Sophisticated Internet control over street lighting

TTP and Mayflower have completed development of their latest wireless smart lighting control system. This latest design is said to offer a 50% reduction in power consumption compared to existing smart lighting systems along with better reliability, improved radio range and good metering accuracy. The new MK3 design is now available, with the Zigbee based solution already qualified for sale in North America and beyond this product range dramatically increases Mayflower’s offering.
August 11, 2014 Read time: 2 mins
The smart lighting system offers major power savings

7851 TTP and 7852 Mayflower have completed development of their latest wireless smart lighting control system. This latest design is said to offer a 50% reduction in power consumption compared to existing smart lighting systems along with better reliability, improved radio range and good metering accuracy. The new MK3 design is now available, with the Zigbee based solution already qualified for sale in North America and beyond this product range dramatically increases Mayflower’s offering.

Using the smart lighting control node, the Mayflower CMS (central management system) now controls and monitors in excess of 180,000 street lights, bollards and signs in the UK and Ireland. Orders for the system have now reached 300,000 nodes.

The biggest installation in Hampshire has over 90,000 Mayflower nodes fitted with a further 50,000 to be installed over the next 12 months making it the largest single street-lighting CMS in the world. This has allowed Hampshire County Council to reduce CO2 emissions by around 4000tonnes, equivalent to 1600 cars/year.

Mayflower’s product range includes both external and internal solutions, which give the ability to monitor and control a range of installations from high masts and street lights to illuminated bollards and signs. All nodes communicate via a Zigbee self-healing mesh network, connected to Mayflower’s back-office solution via a secured GSM Internet connection mounted to the network coordinator.

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