Urbis Schréder walks us through their smart LED lighting and control solutions for city centres, roads, bridges, tunnels, buildings, and workspaces
With over 100+ years of experience and refinement of our approach to lighting, our unparalleled expertise in lighting city centres, roads, bridges, tunnels, buildings, and workspaces enables us to develop smart LED lighting and control colutions for tomorrow’s needs, connecting global expertise with a local perspective to build legacies for future generations.
Urbis Schréder offers smart LED lighting and control solutions, connecting spaces and places to enable improved environments whilst enhancing standards, improving the learning experience and reimagining how light is used through efficiency, innovation, sustainability, and expertise.
Both high availability and disaster recovery are important for enhancing business continuity strategy. Planning for high availability includes identifying systems and services deemed as indispensable to help ensure business continuity.
With energy prices relentlessly rising, there has never been a better time for the government and local authorities to reduce overhead costs and increase energy savings. That’s when Schréder’s EXEDRA becomes YOUR logical choice.
A well-planned, connected lighting solution can significantly reduce your carbon footprint and energy use – by up to 85% vs traditional sources – whilst also reducing operational and maintenance costs.
However, we not only help our clients achieve all the above, but we also help maintain their journey towards NetZero and decarbonisation.
Invisible connection, clear energy savings:
London Borough of Haringey goes smart
Haringey Council, one of London’s 32 administrative boroughs, provides a range of services for its 270,000 residents, including street lighting, which plays a vital role in helping people feel safe.
It is the home of Alexandra Palace, where the BBC first broadcasted in the 1930s; proudly illuminated, the monument is a landmark for the borough by night.
In 2020, Haringey decided to install a smart lighting solution, where the luminaires are controlled by a Central Management Systems (CMS) – a contract won by Urbis Schréder.
A CMS connects street lighting infrastructure via nodes attached to the luminaire, allowing owners to control a portfolio of assets. Energy use and CO2 carbon emissions will be reduced by delivering an efficient, sustainable, and economical lighting service to the required British Standards controlled and maintained by the CMS.
The system will also detect faulty equipment and adjust lighting for areas of concern to support the local community.
Global hubs like London have been trying hard to save energy and reduce carbon emissions: cities account for over 70% of global CO2 emissions, and urban leaders are turning to innovative solutions to play their part in fighting climate change. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has set a target for London to be net zero carbon by 2030, and lighting choices can play a vital role in achieving this.
Smart LED lighting for tomorrow’s needs
Since the launch of ‘Logic’, many have mistaken Logic as simply a product. However, LOGIC is not a product; it is our approach to how well-planned solutions work – considering all situations and how they can be ‘connected-ready’.
In simpler terms, our logic team provides the right solution that considers all scenarios and components, e.g., luminaire types, incorporating smart CMS’s (Control Management System), lowering carbon footprint, minimising energy costs, etc. and how they can all work harmoniously to achieve the intended outcome/ client brief.
What does ‘connected ready’ mean?
‘Connected-ready’ means each luminaire is ‘ready’ to operate with smart control systems and sensors, like Schréder’s EXEDRA.
Schréder’s EXEDRA is our most advanced remote lighting management system on the market that paves the way for further reaching applications in a smarter city.
It offers a unique combination of state-of-the-art technology and an easy-to-use web interface to control each luminaire at all times through a secure internet connection, allowing you to monitor, meter and manage in a lighting network.
With bi-directional communication, the operating status, energy consumption, and possible failures can be monitored. As a result, this improves efficiency: accurate real-time data and energy savings of up to 85%.
With Schréder’s EXEDRA, you can remotely access and receive real-time data, allowing you to plan, monitor, and control outdoor lighting networks that support your journey towards decarbonisation by lowering your carbon footprint while achieving significant energy savings.
Energy-efficient lighting for dynamic control solutions
Connected lighting is a logical building block to smart city infrastructure, but the challenge is that we’re currently at the start of a journey where the destination is not yet clear.
We need to consider lighting as not a function but a connected service that can enable or disable other local authority policies or services. We must work collaboratively with other key stakeholders to deliver places and spaces that fit today and help support a sustainable future.
Energy conservation is the key to ensuring we keep the lights on and citizens safe by moving to a dynamic control solution that ensures authorities can alter to the correct light levels where required rather than lighting up empty spaces.
This, consequently, will balance the energy savings that moved local authorities to smart LED lighting and create a pathway to energy conservation that will not only help protect against inflationary challenges, but also provide smarter services that benefit them in the long run.
With only 40% of local authorities moving to control when their ‘LEDification’ started, this is a real opportunity to continue decarbonising and enhancing their spaces and places strategies.
By Clare Thomas, Head of Logic and Gary Bennett, Regional Director of UK and Ireland, Urbis Schréder
Together for our future
Sustainability has been a topic close to the heart of the Schréder family shareholders for generations and features strongly in our company’s mission statement. Our role as market leaders motivates us to participate in the global battle against climate change and contribute to respectful economic development. We help communities face their biggest challenges, making the world more sustainable.
In 2019, we formalized this commitment by conducting our first materiality assessment.
We developed a cohesive, company-wide sustainability strategy based on the materiality assessment. We called it the “Together for our Future” project and launched it in early 2020. The project is structured around three axes encompassing the relevant and prioritised SDGs and targets:
- Together for our Planet.
- Together for our People.
- Together for our Community.
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