Assessing the Implementation of Smart Energy Efficient Street Lighting Projects Within Cities

Tebello N.D. Mathaba, Moabi K. Manyake

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Abstract

The deployment of smart street lighting infrastructure offers cities the benefit of reducing their operating costs, while continuing to offer the citizens the required lighting services and safety. Energy efficient lighting retrofit projects with traffic-adaptive control strategies are some of the attractive projects for cities to consider. This paper proposes a simulation-based simple methodology for assessing the financial viability of smart lighting retrofit projects in smart cities. The methodology is presented and applied on a case study street in South Africa to indicate that the proposed project would result in a payback period of 3.86 years. Sensitivity analysis indicates that project’s payback period is mostly sensitive to unit cost price of the newly retrofitted luminaires and electricity price.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInnovations in Smart Cities Applications Volume 6 - The Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Smart City Applications
EditorsMohamed Ben Ahmed, Anouar Abdelhakim Boudhir, Domingos Santos, Rogerio Dionisio, Nabil Benaya
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages206-213
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9783031268519
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Externally publishedYes
Event7th International Conference on Smart City Applications, SCA 2022 - Castelo Branco, Portugal
Duration: 19 Oct 202221 Oct 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volume629 LNNS
ISSN (Print)2367-3370
ISSN (Electronic)2367-3389

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Smart City Applications, SCA 2022
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityCastelo Branco
Period19/10/2221/10/22

Keywords

  • Energy efficiency
  • Internet-of-Things
  • Smart cities
  • Streetlights

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Signal Processing
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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