Carbon emission standards for solar street lights
P. V. Manitha, S. S. Anandaraman, K. Manikumaran, and K. Aswathaman, "Design and development of enhanced road safety mechanism using smart roads and energy optimized solar street lights," in 2017 International Conference on Energy, Communication, Data Analytics and Soft Computing (ICECDS), 2017, pp. 1650–1654. - Download [PDF]
Smart Streetlights for Smart Cities
P. V. Manitha, S. S. Anandaraman, K. Manikumaran, and K. Aswathaman, "Design and development of enhanced road safety mechanism using smart roads and energy optimized solar street lights," in 2017 International Conference on Energy, Communication, Data Analytics and Soft Computing (ICECDS), 2017, pp. 1650–1654.
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7-UNV1 light fixtures to replace the same number of 150W high pressure sodium light fixtures, they can save approximately 1.2 million kilowatt hours of energy per year (Over $100,000 in annual savings), 369 tons of carbon dioxide emissions, and 184 tons of coal emissions. That is the is the equivalent energy of 42 million
A climate for change in street lighting | ABB
With an estimated 304 million street lamps flicking into action as the sun goes down, and 48 million more expected by 2025, alarm bells are ringing. Lighting currently accounts for nearly …
Smart lights bring cuts to carbon emissions
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Mitigating the greenhouse gas emissions from urban roadway …
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Reduction in UK carbon emissions through use of …
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