The Street Lighting Control System Application and Case Study

Nowadays, control systems in outdoor and street lighting installations are more and more popular. Many of the outdoor lighting installations exist in direct precincts of buildings with building automation and control systems (BACS). In this paper we present case study with an experimental BACS of outdoor lighting system based on international standard ISO/IEC 14908. The event-based paradigm is the key feature of it. Following the event-based approach we have organized integrated platform to control our experimental outdoor lighting system. In our experiments we have been focused on communication reliability, easy integration of the control system and energy consumption reduction. We describe proposed functional strategies, the performed experiments and analyse the results. The first stages of this evaluation have shown that the event-based BACS provide higher comfort and energy reduction in the outdoor lighting.