Wow. Talk about over-engineering.
Seems like a button would have done the trick.
Put them at the ends of streets (or one on each lamppost, if you can afford it) and have it turn on the lights for the street/block.
Germany's Green Idea: Street Lighting on Demand
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#12Wow. Talk about over-engineering. Seems like a button would have done the trick. Put them at the ends of streets (or one on each lamppost, if you can afford it) and have it turn on the lights for the street/block.
No man, motion sensors.
Re: Germany's Green Idea: Street Lighting on Demand
#13Wow. Talk about over-engineering. Seems like a button would have done the trick. Put them at the ends of streets (or one on each lamppost, if you can afford it) and have it turn on the lights for the street/block.
No man, motion sensors.
That would just be more expensive and less reliable. buttons would do the trick, except for the case you want to have lights on in the moment you are leaving your house.
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#14Wow. Talk about over-engineering. Seems like a button would have done the trick. Put them at the ends of streets (or one on each lamppost, if you can afford it) and have it turn on the lights for the street/block.
It gives the kids a good excuse for wanting a cell phone :)
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#15Wow. Talk about over-engineering. Seems like a button would have done the trick. Put them at the ends of streets (or one on each lamppost, if you can afford it) and have it turn on the lights for the street/block.
Installing the buttons incurs a capital cost, and then there's the cost of maintenance, and the risk that vandals will pound on the buttons just for the hell of it.
By contrast, the Dial4Light system builds on infrastructure for both control and authentication that already exists.
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#16Has someone thought about carrying an electric torch? Or display a white image on your cellphone display to get light.
That sounds like a Viz top tip - "HACKERS: save money on torches by waving your expensive, brightly-lit mobile around in front of you while walking down the road in the dead of night."
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#17Oh wow. It's so nice to see news from years ago making it back as 'new' headlines. Whatever. Feedback for such schemes has been the following- a: that people felt incredibly unsafe (especially women) and stopped going out out night, regardless of being able to turn the lights on. b: non locals, travelers, elderly people, disabled and so on can't use it easily. period. c: most street lights are high power sodium light…
Many parking meters in Belgium have photovoltaic collection plates. It's being done.