WeLight new Pilot

Public Lighting is one of the major sources of electricity consumption in any municipality. Very often, the infrastructure is obsolete and there is no control or monitoring system.

To reduce consumption levels, various strategies have been developed to reduce the light level in the early hours of the morning, using a device such as a post-top regulator or bi-level ballast.

Although these devices provide an adequate level of savings, normally there is still the problem of a lack of information on consumption and the savings obtained, so that very often it is difficult to monitor the profitability of the investment and the state of the equipment.

The few solutions that do permit some kind of control over consumption or saving policies cannot be used with the products from different manufacturers. If one has different types of equipment, it is necessary to have access to several management utilities, which makes the operation expensive and slows it down.

To solve this, Wellness Telecom offers it solution WeLight; the open architecture and adaptable system to control and monitor any public lighting panel.

The system also does not need its own server or its own communications infrastructures: All the information is avaible through an Internet-based software service.

You can find more information here.

After one year of internal testing in Wellness Telecom laboratories WeLight have been installed in two Local councils in the province of Sevilla (Tomares and Mairena del Aljarafe), obtaining between 25-35% of cost savings for this municipalities.

The great news is that last week the third pilot was implanted in the city of Burgos in Spain, specifically in the region of Medina de Pomar, the first prototype outside Sevilla. This prototype has been a big challenge for the company, and it has been deployed with the help of our partner of the area Wifinova. It is a promising prototype, which for sure will lead to a bigger acquisition of the system in the area. This innovation will make Medina de Pomar a reference area in Spain in the area of smart saving in public street lighting.

Amsterdam Smart City

“In 2009 Amsterdam City lunched a unique Initiative based on the collaboration between the inhabitants of Amsterdam, businesses and governments in order to illustrate how energy can be saved, now and in the future.

All the initiatives within this network have been and should be economically sustainable investments and their benefits are tested in local, small-scale projects, bringing public and private partners together.

The ultimate goal of these projects is the reduction of CO2 emissions on Amsterdam national and European scale”

This text can be found in Amsterdam Smart City web.

We think Amsterdam has initiated among others cities, and regions in Europe a fantastic project to achieve European 2020 targets related with energy savings

In this line Wellness Telecom designs and builds Smart & Sustainable City technologies to add intelligence infrastructure, creating more efficient, livable and intelligent cities. It is worth a mention its WeLight and WeSave products with an open architecture and customizable, allows control and monitoring street lights and building energy consumption respectively.

Furthermore, eGARBAGE project, already mentioned in previous posts, provides an innovative new line of products to the Smart Sustainable City, offering an efficient way to manage urban waste Optimising collection routes, Detecting full containers and Monitoring treatment processes.