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New Consortium to Drive Standardization of a Management Software Interface for Managing Outdoor Lighting Networks
Global initiative – The formation of a new global consortium made up from lighting industry players, with the aim of creating a globally accepted standard for a management software interface for outdoor lighting networks has been announced today. Named TALQ, the founders/participants are Harvard…
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Driven by trends such as the increasing prevalence of LED luminaires, the drive for more efficient city operations management, growing social and legislative pressure to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions and an increasing move towards “City Beautification”, the outdoor lighting market is shifting from ‘traditional’ to ‘intelligent’ lighting networks. Amongst other functionalities these new networks offer, remote monitoring, smart asset management, smart dimming and scene setting, and intelligent measurement of energy consumption.
At present the market is characterized by a diversity of proprietary systems and interfaces. The lack of standards makes it difficult to integrate, operate and maintain management systems and is prohibiting the growth of outdoor lighting networks.
The TALQ Consortium aims to promote the application of outdoor lighting network systems by delivering and governing a well-defined software protocol specification for the interface between central management systems and outdoor lighting networks and by managing a promotion, certification and compliance program. This will enable a single user interface for customers to manage their outdoor lighting infrastructure, enable second-source supply of interoperable systems, and stimulate market growth by fostering competition. The software protocol specification will be independent from the various physical communication technologies in existence today (e.g. wireless, power line, etc.) and will be able to accommodate future standard enhancements.
The TALQ Consortium plans to have a draft specification prepared by the end of 2012.
More information will be made available at www.TALQ-consortium.org
For more information: info@talq-consortium.org
About Harvard Engineering
Established in 1993, Harvard Engineering has grown to be a leading player in the Lighting Industry, widely recognised for supplying some of the most innovative and efficient products for commercial, retail, emergency and street-lighting applications. Harvard’s range of energy efficient solutions includes the CoolLED range of high performance LED drivers and “LeafNut”, the company’s innovative wireless street lighting control solution, which is helping municipalities around the world save significant energy costs and cut carbon emissions. Extensive investment in UK based design, development and manufacture of new products and technologies has ensured that Harvard remain at the forefront of the LED lighting market, something proudly recognised in multiple recent awards, including; “2011- Winner of the Orange Innovation Award at the National Business Awards” and “2011 - Winner of a Queen’s Award for Enterprise, within the Innovation category”. News from Harvard Engineering can be found at www.harvardeng.com
About Kingsun Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.
Kingsun founded in 1993 in Dongguan, China is one of the leading manufacturers of LED outdoor and industrial lighting. Kingsun is holding more than 300 patents and processes over 200.000 m² manufacturing facility equipped with internationally certified test laboratory. More than 2000 employee including 300 technical engineers as well as the close collaboration with the leading universities ensure the high quality with permanent improvement to the state of the art. The company has successfully implemented hundreds of major job references around the world. For more information, please visit www.kingsunlights.com
