New New York bridge installation upgrade version of HUE energy consumption reduced by 75%

According to the Tencent digital reports, intelligent mobile phone has become an essential tool in the daily life of each person, and intelligent Home Furnishing and smart cars have gradually entered our life, seemingly in the life all started to become more and more intelligent". But have you ever heard of the smart bridge? According to foreign media reports, recently located in the United States of New York Tappan Zee bridge (also known as the new New York bridge) on the installation of intelligent LED lighting system, has become an intelligent bridge. Tappen Zee across the Hudson River, which is about 5 km long part will be equipped with more than 3 thousand PHILPS LED lamp, which is part of PHILPS Hue smart bulbs support change color, not only has greater flexibility in lighting, but also more energy.

PHILPS Eric lighting CEO Rondolat said, if you want to realize intelligent city goal, we need a smart factory, intelligent building, intelligent road and intelligent residential, intelligent lighting systems like this will be an important development direction of Internet life. Although lighting is only a small part of the smart city ecosystem, but it can not ignore the importance of lighting, after all, occupy 20% of the world's energy consumption.

Intelligent lighting system equipped with the Tappan Zee bridge can be seen as an upgraded version of the Hue, is a combination of two PHILPS lighting system, which has 2700 teeth is able to change the color of Color Kinetics LED, and the other 500 is RoadView LED, only full spectrum white light.

Although it is not uncommon to decorate the bridge with colored lights, the Tappan Zee bridge is equipped with an intelligent lighting system with the help of a cloud based software control system. The PHILPS Active Site and CityTouch, the more than 3 thousand LED lighting design can achieve highly customized and intelligent activation, such as display team logo color detection at the same time traffic conditions in the proportion of sports competitions, and start a low power mode when the traffic flow is less.

In addition, thanks to the remote control technology, the bridge managers can monitor all the LED running state at any time, only when necessary to send engineers, thereby reducing maintenance costs. PHILPS is also expected to be compared with the traditional lighting system, the energy consumption of this intelligent lighting system will be reduced by 75%.

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