Roman Sternberg

Roman Sternberg is VP Marketing & Business Development at Telematics Wireless. After graduating from
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Roman served as an officer in the Israeli Air Force. He joined Tadiran
Communications Group in 1983 where held several management positions in R&D and Marketing including
Marketing Director of the Communications Systems Division. Since Its establishment in 1995, Roman has been VP,
NOAutomatic Vehicle Locations of Tadiran Telematics (later Telematics Wireless). In 2000 he was appointed VP
Marketing and Business Development of the company.

SMART STREET LIGHTING CONTROL AS A

PLATFORM FOR SMART CITY APPLICATIONS
Roman Sternberg
Oct, 2015

Smart City - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

A smart city uses digital technologies or information and

communication technologies (ICT) to enhance quality and
performance of urban services, to reduce costs and resource
consumption, and to engage more effectively and actively with its
citizens. Sectors include government services, transport and
traffic management, energy, health care, water and waste. Smart
city applications are developed with the goal of improving the
management of urban flows and allowing for real time responses
to challenges.

First of all it is about connectivity

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Telematics Wireless Smart City solutions

Terrestrial RF Location
Ituran

Advanced Metering Infrastructure

Arad Technologies

Millions of wireless
networked devices
deployed

Electronic Toll Collection

Cross Israel Highway

Street Light Control,

Water Resource Management
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Street Lighting Control - fast growing Smart City application

Part of the revolution in street lighting LED and
CMS (Control and Monitoring Systems)
CMS provides:

Further electricity savings 20% or more via

controlled on/off/dimming

Improved maintainability via remote monitoring

Increased safety reduced downtime, lifetime

intensity degradation compensation

Better service to the public

Wireless Platform for Smart City applications

Street Light Control solutions two alternative wireless topologies

(Image Credit: California Lighting Technology Center, UC Davis)

Street Light Control - our approach

Solution A: Star topology - Galaxy

Single Gateway
10 - 20 km radius
Up to 50,000 LCUs
LCU
(Light
Control Unit)
and Repeater

Each LCU can

become a repeater
Licensed frequency
no interference!
Independence from
cellular operators

Auckland, NZ

GALAXY Gateway

Optimal for area coverage - urban and sub-urban environment

Solution B: RF Mesh topology T-Light Pro

LCU
Light Control Unit

DCU
Data Concentrator
Unit/Gateway

Route E5 near Paris

Multi-hop self configuring, self healing, scalable
network
Non Line-of-Sight secure links
Single DCU supports up 1,000 LCUs
Unlicensed 900MHz bands, Frequency Hopping

Optimal for line and cluster coverage -highways and rural areas

Telematics Wireless Confidential and Proprietary

CMS Control and Management Software

Web application
Commissioning,
Monitoring,
Control, Reports,
Alerts, Scheduling
3rd party software
interfacing

Street Light Control network the platform for Smart City

applications
Lamp poles with power supply
and built-in
radio-networked
device enable wireless network
reach everywhere in the city.

Options for wireless nodes

Pins 6 and 7

Use of Light Control Unit as a

wireless node/gateway for
external sensors

External model: Pins 6 and 7 of

NEMA ANSI C136.41

Internal model: auxiliary wires

Over the Air firmware download

for future sensor integration

External NEMA model

Internal model

Separate wireless nodes

integrated with various sensors
and added as additional nodes to
the network

Example - Galaxy for water metering (AMR)

Example - Galaxy for water pressure and sewage monitoring

Deployment at Eilat, Israel

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Water pressure monitoring

Telematics confidential

Sewage level monitoring/warning

Example - Galaxy for process control

The Galaxy wireless process controller provides ModBus process control with
modular I/O expansion capabilities and electrical power metering
Process
controller
Power meter

I/O expansion

Smart choice of the frequency band for Smart City

applications
Licensed or unlicensed frequency?

Challenge: right
choice of the
communication
technology for
critical wide area
applications

Examples of applications using unlicensed frequencies

Unlicensed frequencies are allocated for Short Range
Communications/Devices (SRD/SRC)
Unprotected use, restrictions apply

Bluetooth

Wi Fi
ZigBee

RFID

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Streetlight control wireless networks map topologies and

frequencies

No need for licensing

UNB modulation
RF Interference
Poor communication
reliability with remote
nodes
Many gateways in urban
environment

Standard
No Licensing
Very High RF Interference
Poor performance
outdoors, intended for
indoors
Many gateways

No Interference
Long range
One gateway for tens of
thousands nodes
Licensing Application

Star

Star

Unlicensed
800900MHz

Licensed
450470MHz

RF Mesh
Unlicensed
2.4GHz
(ZigBee)

RF Mesh
Unlicensed
800900MHz

No Licensing
Short links overcome
interference and ensure
reliability
Non LOS links
Many gateways

Network performance comparison

Performance ranking based on communication reliability, interference
resistance, coverage, deployment complexity, smart city platform

State-wide

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Summary

Street Light Control networks are uniquely positioned to

provide a platform for many Smart City applications

Utilization of Licensed frequency band is preferable for

critical municipal applications with city-wide coverage

Hybrid Star and Mesh solution is optimal for wide area

coverage with varying urban and topographical conditions

Thank you