With over 100+ years of experience and refinement of our approach to lighting, Urbis Schréder’s unparalleled experience in lighting city centres, roads, bridges, tunnels, buildings, and workspaces enables them to develop solutions for tomorrow’s needs, connecting global expertise with a local perspective to build legacies for future generations
Urbis Schréder offer Smart LED lighting and control solutions, connecting spaces and places to enable improved environments, whilst enhancing standards, improving learning experience and reimagining the way light is used through efficiency, innovation, sustainability, and expertise.
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.
SMART Interoperable Lighting: Creating a sustainable urban ecosystem
At Urbis Schréder, we believe every smart system, no matter which company supplies it, or which customer uses it, should be SMART:
Simple
Modular
Automation-driven
Resilient and
Trustable.
That is why we have built Schréder EXEDRA on this foundation; to provide towns and cities with a Central Management System (CMS) that optimises connected lighting and related infrastructure.
Because we know how important it is for towns and cities to invest public funds in infrastructure that delivers operational benefits, meets sustainability and decarbonisation targets and improves services to offer citizens a better quality of life.
So, when making the major investment in a CMS to connect their lighting infrastructure, which is expected to last for decades, cities should carefully consider whether the system is truly SMART.
The Logical Approach
Since the launch of ‘Logic’ many people have mistaken Logic as a product. However, LOGIC is not a product, but is our approach on how well-planned solutions work – considering all situations and how it 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 Is ‘Connected-Ready’?
‘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 are able to remotely access and receive real-time data, allowing you to plan, monitor and control outdoor lighting networks which supports your journey towards decarbonisation by lowering carbon-footprint, while achieving significant energy savings.
Energy Efficient Lighting That Provides Dynamic Control Solutions
Connected lighting is a logical building block to a 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 polices or services. It’s important that we work collaboratively with other key stakeholders to deliver places and spaces that are not only fit for today but help support a sustainable future.
Energy conservation is the key to making sure 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 is it required rather than lighting up empty spaces. This consequently will balance the energy savings that moved local authorities to LED lighting and create a pathway to energy conservation that will not only help protect the inflationary challenges but also provide smarter services that benefits 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 the decarbonisation and enhancements of 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 featured strongly in our company’s mission statement. Our role as market leaders motivates us to take part in the global battle against climate change and contribute to a respectful economic development. We help communities face their biggest challenges, making the world more sustainable.
In 2019, we formalised this commitment by conducting our first materiality assessment. Based on the materiality assessment, we developed a cohesive, company-wide sustainability strategy. 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
To talk to us about how we can help YOU transform spaces and places, get in touch.
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