Question: What ICT action have you been developing for the Replicate project?

Answer: “Last year extensive work has been conducted on substituting the traditional lighting grid for LED lights; we have also set up motion detectors and sensors which adjust their brightness of the streetlights depending on the situational weather and transit.

We have also implemented systems for vehicle counting and speakers inside the district to alert the citizens in case of emergency.”

During the last period, the monitoring system continues collecting data and analysing the installation energy consumption data for its storage and processing. It is possible to analyse the energy consumption behaviour depending in the presence detection, and it is expected to be able to optimize the energy consumption on the base of the analysis of these data.

Question: What positive impacts have these actions achieved and what benefitial outcomes do you foresee in the future?

Answer: “Right now, these measures have saved the district up to 60% of energy consumption. We expect this number to keep rising in the upcoming years until it reaches an estimated 75%.

On 2017 kwh consumption went down 50% on average. For 2018 we estimate these averages to increase at least 10%, putting the energy saved on an average of 60%. Our goal, as previously stated, is to reach 75%; but we will only be able to reach this goal once the system has been tested and refined.

Of the energy we have saved, we can attribute at least 60% of it to the transition from traditional streetlighting to LED lights, the other 40% has been achieved thanks to the motions sensors and systems we have put in place.

In the near future, we estimate the district’s CO² emissions to also go down by 63%, as well as a reduction on the running costs of 57% thanks to our reduced energy needs, which can be translated savings of 5,000€ annualy. The maintenance costs will be halved.”