Public Lighting System Management Adapted to Remote Management: A Case Study

In the following paper a proposal was made for a remote management system for public lighting belonging to Empresa Electrica C.A., analyzing the different technologies for remote control and monitoring of equipment, with the purpose of defining the most appropriate one in terms of its advantages, installation, and cost of the necessary equipment. The company has currently opted for the installation of LED lamps on Av. de los Alcaldes and Av. Aurelio Jaramillo, improving the photometric parameters with respect to the old technologies, but they still have a high energy consumption due to the operating time of the luminaires. An analysis and comparison of MINOS UMPI, OWLET, ELO and SimplySnap technologies was carried out to define the most appropriate one in consideration with the requirements of the equipment already installed, therefore a field study was carried out to verify the state of the public lighting and the transformer stations. In addition to comparing the cost of current energy consumption with the cost of energy consumption of the system with remote management. In turn, a technical-economic study of the proposal and a simulation of the lighting aspects under the current ARCONEL-CONELEC 006-20 regulations. Design a lighting system with telemanagement and radiofrequency wave communication between the operation teams through a Wi-Fi network with the monitoring equipment. Analyze the photometric effect through simulation with the Dialux program, verifying if the values obtained are in accordance with the regulations in force in the country, in addition, the technical study in the transformation stations determining their chargeability with the current and proposed system. The data obtained in the comparison of equipment allowed to determine the VAN and the IRR of the proposal obtained the following values (988.71$ and 8.29%) in a period of 10 years.