Kirklees Case Study
With approximately 52,000 street lights, Kirklees Municipal Borough Council decided not to follow some other UK Municipal authorities in taking the highly controversial decision to switch off its street lights at certain times of the day. Instead it became one of the first local authorities to pilot the revolutionary new LeafNut monitoring and control system from Harvard Engineering, which uses ground-breaking wireless technology to monitor and dim street lights.
Case Study Details
Kirklees (Huddersfield), West Yorkshire, England.
LeafNut successfully trialled over a 20 month period.
Initial pilot delivered outstanding results with 30% extra street lighting installed and only 5% increase in usage.
Savings of 100kg carbon emissions per street light, per year.
Accurate inventory information enables street lighting engineers to identify failed lamps quickly and easily.
On site maintenance costs reduced through ease of monitoring.
Kirklees MBC on course to meet Climate Change Act targets.
