An Advanced Electrotechnical Remote Control and Supervision System for the Municipality of Patras

The existent lighting bulbs used in the Municipality of Patras were energy-intensive, demanded a high maintenance and replacement cost and offered a relatively short lifetime. Extensive damage was already apparent and alongside with the lack of spare parts and materials, the delays in detecting and diagnosing malfunctions and the high cost of electricity (>2.5M €/year), it was deemed necessary to adopt a practice that would provide beneficial results for the sustainability of the environment, targeted at reducing energy consumptions and decreasing the outgoing emissions

By replacing the conventional lighting bulbs with cost-effective LED lamps, we can achieve the aforementioned goals, since LED lamps have 10 times longer lifetime that conventional lamps and offer increased durability. Furthermore, a remote control and networking system was installed.

This infrastructure enables immediate functionality monitoring and malfunction alerts, monitoring of guarantees and suppliers, more efficient touch-extinguishing adjustment for energy saving, frequency of failures, LED brightness adjustment, electricity consumption and damage recovery times. The system uses modern low power communication technologies and is ably to support both old and new installations. It has a low cost of use and ownership of infrastructure, provides free virtual server hosting on G-Cloud and can be extended to connect with other external systems and integrate equipment from different suppliers.