A company named Photon Group created a mobile APP called, J’Ignite Ma Rue,” which enables citizens to control the streetlights in their neighborhood. Currently, eleven towns in France are allowing citizens to use the APP to control local streetlights. The primary benefits are saving energy by allowing citizens to turn down or off the lights when an area is unoccupied, as well as thed security of allowing people to turn on or up the lights as they walk through an area, such as to get home. The APP sends information to a nearby electrical cabinet, which controls the streetlights in the area.
The first town to test the program was Longpont-sur-Orge in Essonne. The mayor claims the APP has reduced streetlight energy use by 50%, and the town plans to expand the neighborhoods controlled by the APP, later this year. The program only works where LED streetlights have replaced HID. HID takes too long to restart, to be controlled by the APP.
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