One of the leading global IT servicing companies has announced that they have created an intelligent software that will mean that cities will be able to get more value out of LED lighting which could lead to a cutting a four or five-year payback period to two or three years. Tata Consultancy Services is a consultant and business solutions company and it is hoped that this scheme will help cities invest in costlier schemes like investing in LED lights quicker. This will then lead to an earlier reduction in energy consumption and it should also lead to the improvement of the public safety as the intelligent software has self-learning algorithms that will help to improve public safety by adapting to changes in traffic weather and people movement in real time.
The software that has been created by Tata Consultancy Services is the TCS Digital Software & Solutions Group, Intelligent Urban Exchange. The software has been designed in order to enable Streetlight Optimization. It has been said that cities that use this new software solution will receive a boost for their smart city projects, and optimizing the costs spent on lighting schemes will help other areas of a smart city scheme develop at a quicker rate.
These smart city programmes and software that has been put in place that will offer intelligent software has just started to be investigated. People in the industry believe that there is more beneath the surface which could lead to better smart city programs and networks created. The new software has been compared to the creation of the internet, as it is a new software that has potential for use in more and more different areas.
The Intelligent Urban Exchange software should hopefully allow cities to cut their energy budgets by using more intelligent lighting. It is thought that street lighting uses up between 40% and 50% of the average cities energy budget. By delivering more intelligent street lighting, public safety can be improves as the lighting could be made brighter when crowds gathered or after an accident, and dimmed in order to save money when the weather is bad and no one is on the streets.
