1 smart streetlighting national town hall lorraine hariton july 14, 2009
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Smart StreetlightingNational Town HallLorraine Hariton
July 14, 2009
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Echelon Overview
20 years of innovation– Founded in 1998 by Mike Markkula from Apple– CEO - Ken Oshman from ROLM– Publicly traded on the NASDAQ under ELON– 300 Employees, $134M– San Jose, CA; offices worldwide
Enabling the Smart Grid – Smart metering – Building controls– Street and area lighting– Home control– Retail & convenience store automation– Transportation
Standards based – LonWorks® Control Networks– ISO, IP, IP-852, ANSI
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Echelon’s Smart Grid Vision
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Street and Area Lighting Market
60 million poles in the US– 200 million worldwide– Early adopter market in US, Europe a couple
years ahead Up to 40% of a municipality’s energy budget
– Currently unmetered – Charged on a flat rate per light
Strong interest in energy efficient technology– LED – Controls
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Energy Consumption
Cost & quality of maintenance
CO² emissions
Liability, Security and Safety
Intelligent Street Light Market Drivers
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Smart Lighting Features
Dimming/Demand Response– Increments of 1%
Individual luminaire control
Automatic failure identification and Daylight Burner Identification
Data collection– Consumed energy– Lamp burning hours– Voltage, Current, Temperature
911 Alerts
Palo Alto Demonstration
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The Streetlight Networkto support the monitoring
of the City
The Streetlight Networkto support the monitoring
of the City
Expansion Capability
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Benefits
Environmental– Dramatic reductions in energy use– Reduced CO2 emissions– Reduced light pollution– Beautification
Cost & quality of maintenance– Individual luminaire monitoring– Outage detection– Early failure monitoring
Liability, security and safety– Real-time status reporting and
monitoring– 911 service– Historical performance data
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Benefit
Not limited to single luminaire choice– Compatible with future technology– Phased approach as existing
technology rides the cost curve– HPS, LED, Induction, Metal Halide
Single, multi-purpose city network– Easily add future sensing devices
Traffic, environmental, others…– Independent of wide-area network
choices– Implement new services without
changing the infrastructure Electric vehicle chargers
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Projects
Anchorage – Demonstration of Adaptive Lighting in December– HPS, LED, Induction
San Francisco / PG &E– Demonstration with Mayor Gavin Newsome
San Jose– 125 LED Lights with controls - June 2009 – Commitment to 65k– $2 million in stimulus
Los Angeles– 140,000 LED, 5000 in 2009– Testing Controls
Huntington Beach, Palo Alto, Pittsburg, Chicago
