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Electronics company helps cut street light energy use
AN ELECTRONICS business claims that its latest product is helping local authorities reduce street light energy use by 40 per cent.
Harvard Engineering's Leafnut System allows the monitoring, switching and dimming control of each street light.
A webserver controls the streetlights and programmes light levels to correspond with traffic and population density.
The 9m turnover company based at Beeston, Leeds, said
the system is revolutionising maintenance programmes by providing individual lamp fault reports.
It also said its technology cuts carbon production and toxic waste by up to 50 per cent across the whole street lighting infrastructure.
Finance director Martin Baum said: "Basically, it provides a two-way conversation with each street light, logging whether it's on or off, how long it's been running and useful life remaining.
"Each light can be controlled at varying power levels and there's also an emergency button. Clearly there are also additional financial and carbon footprint savings in not having to despatch staff in transport to check lights."
He said the business has supplied Leafnut to local authorities in Sheffield, Cheshire, London and Holland.
Leeds City Council's executive member for development, Coun Andrew Carter, said: "Harvard Engineering epitomises the mix of enterprise and innovation so characteristic of Leeds manufacturing companies."
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