Luix Intelligent Energy Efficient Street Lighting To Cut Costs By 85 Percent



An intelligent street lighting system, created by Luix, is believed to have supervised the street lights, increasing or decreasing their brightness depending upon the number of people and vehicles present in the region. Motion Sensors have been employed for this purpose, which determines the existence of people and vehicles up to 150m from the lights. This technique not only ensures security, but also uses the lights efficiently, thus saving nearly 85 per cent of the total power presently being used.

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This Luix System functions between two modes:

Standby mode- Saves up to 30-40 percent energy.

Detection mode- Saves up to 20 percent energy, giving enough light when any person or vehicle is located.


This system can function with subsisting street light networks, without building new ones, and even its installation is simple. LED lighting would be apt for this system as dimming is instantaneous. Other lightings won't show a substantial energy saving. The biggest issue with this system was regarding the detection of people and vehicles, keeping in mind the weather conditions that keep changing with time, plus the vegetation in the surrounding areas, and other things that may actuate the detector. They made sure that cats and dogs do not actuate the sensors. Till now, Spanish provinces- Gipuzkoa and Navarre - have experienced the services of this system. The calculations revealed that capital city of Gipuzkoa could save up to €3m (£2.6m) per year if this system handles its 25000 lamp-posts.

It is the first time that this technology gets available market, and going by the energy crisis and all the inflation that we are facing right now, this could just prove out to be the knight in the shining armor, metamorphically of course!

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