Grid Edge Lighting Turn streetlights into grid sensors

Utilities can improve distribution grid visibility by adding sensors at assets already spread across the network, such as streetlights. With Grid Edge Lighting, networked lighting controls on intelligent streetlights capture outage, power-quality and environmental data between substations and meters. That data goes to grid operations systems over the existing AMI network, filling blind spots without new infrastructure. 

Yes. Smart Streetlights equipped with utility-grade networked lighting controls can work as grid edge sensors. They report voltage, power-quality events, outage indicators, hyperlocal weather and GPS asset location. Because streetlights are spread across the service territory, they give utilities detailed, location-specific data on distribution conditions in places meters don't cover. 

Utilities can detect outages and power-quality issues faster by monitoring the grid in more places, including locations with no residential meters. Intelligent streetlights with networked lighting controls report outage and voltage events from poles, transformers and branches across the network. Grid teams can then pinpoint problems sooner, send crews more efficiently and cut outage time and operating costs. 

Utilities can strengthen grid resilience by pairing hyperlocal weather data with real-time grid conditions at specific assets. Grid Edge Lighting uses streetlights to collect environmental and power data tied to GPS-located poles and transformers. Grid teams get earlier awareness for storm planning and better information for directing response across the service territory. 

Utilities can get more value from AMI by adding endpoints that collect grid data, not just meter reads. Itron networked lighting controls join the same AMI mesh as meters, which strengthens communications coverage and adds grid sensing in the same deployment. Their data goes into grid applications utilities already use, such as UtilityIQ, without needing a separate network.