Al Ain City Municipality, represented by the infrastructure and Municipality rules, applied public Lighting Management System, which works on controlling and management roads lighting networks, among its plan to enhance sustainability and rationalize consumption, while enhancing and developing response and recovery proficiencies from failures.
The Municipality plan include coverage for up to 40 %, represented in 65000 light poles on roads through the project of developing the internal and main roads lighting system in Al Ain City as a primary phase, provided that the installation of the systems shall be continued in all areas within the forthcoming phase as per the comprehensive plan of urban development in Al Ain City Municipality through prospective projects.
The Lighting monitoring and control systems installation are completed in Ghanima (East) and Sweihan districts, and the installation works in the remaining areas, which are located among the scope of project works, are under progress. It is expected to save consumption in the mentioned areas by 30 % through scheduling the illumination levels in line with the roads motion in these areas.
The system is included among the municipality strategy plan to be transformed into a smart city including the system of development of a digital infrastructure for management and control of the infrastructure assets and networks such as irrigation, rainwater drainage, and other smart systems.
On his part, Engineer Nahyan Al Jabri, Head of infrastructure networks control, confirmed that Al Ain City is interested in using the most recent technologies in the operations of management road lighting network, as the system contributes to raise the efficiency of the lighting system in the city, through immediate inspection for road lighting failure, reduce the response time for recovery, which enhance the municipality ability for quick and accurate provision of services and maintenance of its assets, in addition to the reduction in consumption of the power sources, as appropriate for the governmental directives which aim towards sustainable financial resources.
Al Jabri stated, the lighting Control System is characterized by its ability to control and monitor the lighting units individually. In addition to the ability to control the illumination level during the operation hours, according to the approved specifications of the lighting manual for the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, so that the intensity of lighting is reduced in times when the percentage of road use is reduced, which will contribute to supporting sustainability initiatives by reducing consumption costs and reducing light pollution to support the implementation of the general policy objectives of the dark sky in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.