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AIDO develops the project of intelligent lighting Adilux

05/10/2011

October 5, 2011

Instituto Tecnológico Aido, along with the Sice, Socelec, Arcos engineers Citean companies and the Government of Navarre are working on the project Adilux, that will help develop an Adaptive lighting system in intercity environments and reduce between 690.000 to 450,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions a year.

The current shortage of energy resources and the impact the use of energy on the environment is that both the authorities and society raised energy policies to make better use of different resources and especially to rationalize their use. In order to take a step forward in the field of management of energy consumption for public lighting of the cities was born the project Adilux. An initiative that will develop a system of Adaptive lighting, i.e. that it attaches to the conditions of the environment in which it is located.

This development will integrate management systems of InterCity and weather traffic with the network of public lighting in order to reduce power consumption while maintaining the conditions of road safety.

The system is based on an intelligent control that takes into account the situation of the traffic, the speed that circulating vehicles, visibility conditions and schedules it as weather conditions that affect visibility such as fog, rain or snow.

To achieve these goals applies the sensors as a source of information that allows to extract data from the outside. With all the extracted information system will allow adjust or regulate the lighting environment of the road conditions at all times and thus optimize energy expenditure without compromising the safety of drivers and passers-by.