As cities, towns and industrial facilities are faced with the increasingly difficult challenge of allocating fewer financial resources across an increasingly long list of needs, they are seeking innovative ways to reduce costs. Lighting constitutes a significant portion of their budgets; however, by using the latest advances in lighting technology they can significantly reduce these costs and eliminate the need to turn lights OFF.

CIMCON Lighting is the world leader in developing scalable, intelligent lighting management solutions that provide the lowest cost of ownership. As the pioneer of the innovative concept "Just in Time Lighting"^TM, CIMCON's lighting management solutions ensure that the right amount of lighting is provided where needed, when needed, eliminating energy "wastage", thereby reducing costs.

CIMCON's LightingGale^TM is an automated "plug and play" centralized Streetlight Management System that reduces energy costs up to 30% for traditional streetlights, and maintenance costs by at least 50% for traditional, LED and Solar lights. Energy costs are reduced through intelligent switching, while maintenance costs are reduced by automated fault detection which eliminates the need for late night patrols.

LightingGale uses the latest RF-Wireless and GPRS/GSM technology to help cities, towns, utilities, industrial and parking facilities manage and control anywhere from a few streetlights to entire systems. Solutions range from low cost controllers that can replace digital timers on individual poles to complete systems that can control power to a large group of streetlights.

Key Features of the LightingGale Solution include:

Wireless Technology: RF-Wireless and GPRS/GSM technology enables programming, monitoring and control of streetlights distributed over both large and small regions.

Uses Existing Photo Cell Socket: The CIMCON controller can be plugged into a pre-existing photo cell socket. If a photo cell is required to contribute to a lamp's operational mode it can be plugged into the CIMCON controller.

Monitoring: Communication and energy monitoring modules provide continuous updates per lamp to the LightingGale Control Station.

Control: Remote control of streetlights enables selected individual or groups of light poles to be switched ON/OFF as needed from a web-based interface. Each streetlight can support up to ten schedules that can be configured by the user to control On, Off, and Dimming levels at specific times. The schedules can be programmed on a daily/monthly/yearly basis or can be controlled locally using a built-in astro-clock that calculates sunset and sunrise times using the lights' GPS location and time zone data throughout the year.

Fault Monitoring and Alarm Call Service: Extensive fault monitoring is provided based on intelligent correlation of data to report light burn outs, lamp cycling, ballast or driver failure, communication failure and more. All faults are sent to the MCS that may generate alarms for visualization and fault rectification of critical issues.

Burn Hours: The controller can track lamp usage hours that can be used for predictive maintenance allowing lamp replacement planning in advance.

Scalability: The system can be easily and quickly expanded to any new or remote areas.

Installation: Several controller mounting options enable easy installation or retrofitting.

Multiple Protocol Support: Support of multiple industry standard protocols enables easy integration with other systems and networks.

Web-based Monitoring and Control: Enables comprehensive display of live and historical data and remote configuration.

Integration with Google Map and Google Earth: Provides an intuitive and familiar interface for users that requires little training.

Report Generation: Detailed real time reports of energy consumption by streetlight sent via email.

Comprehensive Energy Dashboards: Display "energy usage" and "energy saved" per region or system-wide over user supplied timeframes.

Hosted or Onsite Monitoring Software Available: For communities that do not wish to invest in monitoring software and equipment, CIMCON can host and provide the monitoring for them.

LightingGale for Different Sectors

Light Emitting Diode (LED) Lamps and LightingGale

CIMCON's LightingGale system works seamlessly with LEDs, enabling manufacturers to provide further cost savings to their customers. LEDs are known for their long bulb life and reduction in energy costs; however, they still require nightly patrols to ensure proper functioning, and additional components such as a driver control board and a DC power supply make LEDs susceptible to failure, thereby increasing maintenance costs. LightingGale's centralized, web-based monitoring and control system eliminates the need for nightly patrols by providing users with real-time reports of the operational status of all lights in a system. The system's ability to historically track a light's component use times and electrical trend data provides users with the information necessary to predict light failures prior to their occurrence, thereby reducing maintenance costs.

Inclusion of LightingGale in an LED at the time of manufacture is a small investment, yet a reduction in maintenance costs of at least 50% can have a significant impact on a city, town, utility or industrial facility's budget. In addition, inclusion at the time of manufacture also allows customers to quickly, easily and inexpensively take advantage of future lighting opportunities that have not yet been envisioned.

Key Benefits include:

No Training Required - Simply "Plug and Play": If you can install a photocell, then you can install CIMCON's LightingGale Controller.

Power Savings: Reduces energy costs by as much as 30% through intelligent scheduling.

Low Investment: Very low investment costs for traditional streetlights or LEDs.

Easy Expansion: Scalable to new or remote areas quickly and easily since no cables are involved.

Reduced Light Pollution: By reducing or turning off power to lights when and where they are not needed.

Maintains Public Safety: Removes the need to arbitrarily turn off lights to save energy and in the end, money.

Robust and Reliable: Operates over large distances with full reliability.

Event-based Reporting: Notification provided automatically to the responsible individuals as soon as faults occur.

Mobile Workforce Management: Workforce can directly interact with the system while in the field.

No Photo Cell Required: The controller has a built in Astro-clock that offers several advantages over fault prone Photo Cells.

LightingGale Drastically Lowers Maintenance Costs

LightingGale reduces maintenance costs for traditional, LED and Solar based LED lights by at least 50% by automating the entire fault management process. The system software begins by automatically identifying the occurrence of a fault and generating a maintenance work order. The maintenance work order is assigned systematically for repair. Once the repair is completed the system can be updated to reflect the repair that has been made, providing a historical view for future repairs that may be necessary. Automating the fault management process via a web-based interface eliminates the need for late night patrols to monitor the functioning of lights. In addition, the software's ability to track component use times and electrical usage allows lights to be changed prior to failure, thus reducing maintenance costs.