New Lumen IQ™ Streetlight Optimization System
Streetlight Intelligence Inc. (”SLQ”) is pleased to announce the initiation of a “National Demonstration Program” for its Lumen IQ™ streetlight optimization technology. The program entails the deployment of turnkey “demonstration installations” at approximately 60 locations across Canada for a period of up to 90 days each.
The National Demonstration Program will be funded through the support of Natural Resources Canada (”NRCan”), who will be contributing up to $185,000, participating local governments and SLQ.
The purpose of the National Demonstration Program is to provide Canadian municipalities with an opportunity to experience how Lumen IQ™ technology can significantly reduce the energy required to operate street lights. With an estimated 6.5 million street lights in Canada today, SLQ believes there exists a real opportunity to save significant energy and corresponding expenditures - simply through more efficient operation of the country’s existing street light infrastructure.
The Lumen IQ™ adaptive lighting control system can be used for more effective street light energy management, improved lamp performance as well as system-wide communications for centralized asset management. The demonstration installations will be in municipalities that are representative of all geographic areas of Canada, including large and small centers with diverse energy costs and a wide range of energy usage and operational contingencies. As a condition of their participation, municipalities will be required to dedicate the appropriate personnel for installation and ongoing management during the evaluation period, as well as provide performance data and qualitative responses to a series of technical and social questions relating to the technology.
The National Demonstration Program will provide reliable, objective and conclusive data on the energy-savings capability of Lumen IQ™ technology and that data will be shared with all interested municipalities for reference as they look to adopt and finance practical solutions for reducing their energy consumption, and to explore public private partnership (P3) financing for large scale implementations.
“More energy efficient streetlight technology will benefit the environment and reduce the energy bills of local governments, ” said the Honourable Lisa Raitt, Minister of Natural Resources. “This new project will gather important data that will help communities across Canada make better energy efficiency decisions.” “We are very pleased with this recent support from NRCan to move the National Demonstration Program forward,” states Vince Krynski, Chief Executive Officer of SLQ. “In many communities, street lighting accounts for up to one-third of their overall electricity consumption. Our technology can cut this bill nearly in half. With this program underway, we will be able to educate local and provincial governments that a substantial energy and environmental savings solution is available today and that it is proven to be both reliable and cost effective.”
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