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Tondo Smart Lighting:
Infrastructure for Smart Cities

Tondo provides industry-leading smart lighting solutions that combine intelligent lighting controllers with a centralized management system, an open connectivity platform, and a wide array of pre-integrated sensors to deliver city-scale infrastructure with unlimited possibilities.

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A Tondo Smart Lighting solutions can reduce the energy, operations, and maintenance costs of street lighting by as much as 150% over a simple LED light upgrade.

Lighting poles are everywhere there are people, vehicles, buildings, services, and utilities, and are the perfect platform for the Smart IoT Network

Tondo’s Smart Lighting solutions provides the Smart City loT network for connecting to sensors and other devices that support your Smart City vision.

Lighting poles are conveniently electrified to support Smart City communications devices.

Street lights are well-positioned up high for wireless communications to sensors, people, and vehicles.

Smart Lighting: The Key to the Smart City

Smart City visions start with Tondo Smart Lighting:
  • Lighting poles are everywhere there are people, vehicles, buildings, services, and utilities, and are the perfect platform for the Smart IoT Network.
  • Lighting poles are conveniently electrified to support Smart City communications devices.
  • Street lights are well-positioned up high for wireless communications to sensors, people, and vehicles.
  • Tondo's Smart Lighting solutions provides the Smart City loT network for connecting to sensors and other devices that support your Smart City vision.
  • A Tondo Smart Lighting solutions can reduce the energy, operations, and maintenance costs of street lighting by as much as 150% over a simple LED light upgrade.

With a Tondo Smart Lighting solution, you can turn every outdoor light and light pole into the launchpad for your Smart City vision.

The Tondo Advantage

ADVANCED SMART LIGHTING CONTROL

Smart streetlights operate more efficiently allowing customers to optimize their energy use, lower costs, reduce carbon emissions and improve the quality of the environment.

Smart Lighting can reduce energy consumption beyond simple LED lamp upgrades, providing an additional 30% in electricity and GHG savings.

Advanced smart lighting controls reduce light pollution that not only reduce energy use, but also bring health benefits to humans and wildlife.

The added savings from Tondo’s Smart Lighting solutions provide a rapid return on investment and a platform for Smart City growth.

LIGHTING AS INFRASTRUCTURE

Lighting poles represent a strategic infrastructure for smart city development. Lighting poles will become hosting infrastructure for several connected devices (e.g., sensors, video cameras, EV chargers) (Arthur D. Little S.A., 2019), providing an unprecedented opportunity to drive value for all Smart City stakeholders.

Smart Lighting raises the quality of life by improving livability, increasing safety, reducing crime, and encouraging social activity . Smart City applications can improve human quality of life indicators by 10% – 30% (McKinsey Global Institute, 2018).

A Tondo Smart Lighting solution turns your outdoor lighting into a value-creating asset for your Smart City and Smart Enterprise.

RAPID INSTALLATION

Tondo’s Plug-and-Play technology automatically activates itself. Our controllers identify the type of lighting they are connected to, and configures themselves in a few seconds.

Tondo’s plug-and-play and automatic configuration increases the speed and reliability of your Smart Lighting and Smart Network deployment. We eliminate the need for extensive training on new technologies for your installation contractors.

Tondo will save you thousands of dollars in project deployment costs and reduce your project deployment timelines.

EASY TO MANAGE

Tondo’s Cloud-IQ Central Management System (CMS) provides you with secure remote control   and data protection. We encrypt all communications from device-to-cloud.

Tondo Cloud-IQ allows you to monitor, configure, and provide software updates across the network to avoid costly field work.

Tondo’s CMS provides robust energy usage, sensor data, and device status reporting and can integrate easily with your existing data warehouse and business analytics tools for consolidated reporting.

SECURE

Tondo protects your Smart Lighting and Smart network with advanced hardware-based cryptography.

Each Tondo device is protected with a dedicated cryptographic security chip that is integrated into our Smart Lighting controllers.

OPEN STANDARDS BASED

Our customers need to know their Smart City investments will have the long life they expect from street light assets. They also want to avoid being locked in to proprietary technologies.

We support common global lighting and control standards, wireless cellular, and sensor connectivity standards. We are always working on new emerging standards for device and software interoperability.

AFFORDABLE

Even with all of the state-of-the-art technology we’ve packed into every device, Tondo Edge-IQ controllers are surprisingly affordable – around the same cost as a replacement LED lamp.

We’ve carefully crafted our Smart Lighting solutions to drive a rapid return on your investment.

RELIABLE

Your Smart Lighting and Smart City network requires high availability “always-on” operation.

We’ve designed our devices to operate independently in the event of a network carrier’s service failure

We are a proud Amazon Web Services partner, providing our cloud-based management system on the most reliable platform available.

A Solution That Works for You

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STREETS, ROADWAYS, AND HIGHWAYS

Roadway and highway lighting, including traffic signal lighting, represents 36% of all outdoor lighting in the U.S.

LED lamp retrofit projects are an easy choice, because they deliver up to 40% in energy savings and GHG footprint reductions. A Tondo Smart Lighting solution can add a further 30% in lighting electricity savings and your lighting’s GHG footprint.

A Tondo Smart Lighting solution also provides you with the IoT communications and control infrastructure for Smart City and Smart Enterprise applications – paid for with the energy and GHG benefits from your Smart Lighting project.

SMART ROADWAY SOLUTIONS
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PARKING LOTS

Parking lot lighting represents the 2nd largest category of outdoor lighting. Five percent of the entire United States is covered by parking lots , with as many as 630m indoor and outdoor parking lot spaces with dedicated lighting estimated in the U.S.

Tondo’s Smart Lighting not only reduces the operating and maintenance costs of lighting, but enables fine control and can be used with sensors for vehicle and pedestrian traffic to craft safer on-demand lighting environments for parking lot users.

SMART PARKING SOLUTIONS
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COMMERCIAL OUTDOOR LIGHTING

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, commercial outdoor area lighting represents 64% of all outdoor lighting in the United States , and 6% of global energy consumption . Over half our carbon footprint comes from electricity and 17% from outdoor lighting.

Lighting energy costs represent approximately 10% of the total operating budget of a commercial building and 31% of the total energy budget .

This means a Tondo Smart Lighting solution can reduce your energy and other operational expenses by as much as 30% and add up to 4% to the net operating income for your organization.

SMART AREA LIGHTING SOLUTIONS
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RAILWAY AND PUBLIC TRANSIT LIGHTING

Lighting for airports, railways, and rapid transit systems represent the fourth largest source of outdoor lighting.

Tondo’s Smart Lighting solutions can increase the ROI on LED retrofit projects by 30%, and reduce your lighting’s GHG footprint by the same.

Tondo’s Smart Lighting solutions provide an enterprise-wide network infrastructure for your Smart Enterprise applications.

SMART TRANSPORTATION SOLUTIONS

What Can You Connect to Your Tondo Smart Lighting?

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Limitless Possibilities

Tondo is more than smart lighting; Tondo is an infrastructure for building a truly smart city. Do more with your smart lighting investment with Tondo.

Tondo Sensor Solution Diagram describing a range of different smart city applications.

Tondo’s system brings me to the 21st century. I get remote control of the lighting in the city and energy savings. It also opens up a lot of the possibilities for the future.

Eli Lalou, CIO
Kiryat Yam Municipality

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Source: US Department of Energy 2015 U.S. Lighting Market Characterization, issued November 2018

The full Excel data set that accompanies this report can be downloaded here.

Normally open(NO) and Normally closed (NC) are terms used to define the states that switches, sensors or relay contacts are under when they are not activated.

A NO contact or a normally open contact is the one that remains open until a certain condition is satisfied such as a button being pressed or some other manner of activation such as those based on temperature, pressure, etc.

A NC contact or normally closed contact is the exact opposite of NO contact by function. It remains closed until a certain condition is satisfied.

Lighting control cabinets typically control a group of street lights or advertising signage from a "control cabinet". These controls have historically provided on-off functionality based on the time of day using an "astronomical clock"-based switch or daylight photosensor. Lights are controlled in groups with no individual control over a specific light.

Although new controllers such as Tondo's Edge-IQ controller have replaced the cabinet-based approach with new technologies that include advanced dimming, remote cloud-control, and support for functionality including sensors and switches, there are many outdoor lights and signs that do not support on-lamp control. Tondo's Cabinet-IQ controller provides new advanced IoT technology support for existing cabinet-controlled lighting.

CAT-M/LTE-M and NB-IoT are similar but have differences that may make one suitable over another, or simply selected based on the support for one or the other that is available in your area.

NB-IoT uses a narrow bandwidth of 200 kHz, where CAT-M uses 1.4 MHz. The maximum data rate for NB-IoT is ~ 250 kb per second, with CAT-M1 reaching ~ 1 Mbps. CAT-M is marginally less energy efficient than NB-IoT. Although NB-IoT has a lower speed, both NB-IoT and CAT-M are suitable for sensor communications since sensors typically do not require much bandwidth.

Both NB-IoT and CAT-M1 are supported under the 5G technology specifications and therefore are ideal for selecting as a standard for sensor communications.

 

CAT-M wireless (aka LTE-M) is a low-power wide area network (LPWAN) cellular data transmission standard that operates over the data and physical layer. CAT-M was designed for IoT projects, with an average upload speed between 200 kbps and 400 kbps.

Eddystone is an open-source Bluetooth advertising protocol originally designed by Google. It can be used by mobile device applications to deliver improved proximity-based experiences that include applications such as Google Maps.

These packets can be discovered with any Bluetooth LE APIs such as Core Bluetooth on iOS, or android.bluetooth.le on Android. You can also use them with Google’s Nearby Messages API, which can be integrated into an iOS or Android app, and receive “messages” in those apps when a person enters or exits a range of beacons.

You can read more about it on github.com/google/eddystone.

Source: The calculation for the addressable U.S. market is based on the US Department of Energy 2015 U.S. Lighting Market Characterization, issued November 2018

The 2022 estimate is calculated for each lighting category measured by the US DOE by applying the market growth factors for each category between 2015 and 2021 based on U.S. Census data.

The full Excel data set that accompanies this report can be downloaded here.

A RESTful API is an architectural style for an application program interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to access and use data.

The API spells out the proper way for a developer to write a program requesting services from an operating system or other application.

You can read more from the source of this definition at TechTarget here.

A DIN rail is a metal rail of a standard type widely used for mounting circuit breakers and industrial control equipment inside equipment racks.

IP stands for "ingress protection". For IP67, this means:

"6" describes protection of solid particles: No ingress of dust; complete protection against contact (dust-tight). A vacuum must be applied. Test duration of up to 8 hours based on airflow.

"7" describes the protection from water: Ingress of water in harmful quantity shall not be possible when the enclosure is immersed in water under defined conditions of pressure and time (up to 1 meter (3 ft 3 in) of submersion). Test duration: 30 minutes.

Modbus is a data communications protocol originally published in 1979. Modbus has become a de facto standard communication protocol and is now a commonly available means of connecting and communicating with industrial electronic devices.

Read more about MODBUS here.

RS-485, also known as TIA-485(-A) or EIA-485, is a serial communications standard.

Electrical signalling is balanced, and multipoint systems are supported. Digital communications networks implementing the standard can be used effectively over long distances and in electrically noisy environments.

This table describes the differences between 3G, 4G, and 5G cellular communications standards.

4G devices will work on 4G LTE networks and the earlier cellular technologies, including 3G, EGPRS, and 2G.

Smart city sensors require very little bandwidth, and 3G EGPRS and 4G LTE can easily support the required data rates.

5G networks are relatively new, and most 5G deployments use a combination of 4G and 5G networks.

 

A diagram describing the DALI smart lighting control system

DALI-2 refers to the latest version of the DALI protocol. While DALI version 1 only included control gear, DALI-2 includes control devices such as application controllers and input devices (e.g. sensors), as well as bus power supplies.

Read more at the DALI Alliance website: Compare DALI v1 vs DALI v2

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Zhaga Book 18 describes a smart interface between outdoor luminaires and sensing/ communication nodes.

Zhaga Book 18 allows any certified node to operate with any certified luminaire. Certified luminaires and sensing / communication modules are available from multiple suppliers, establishing an ecosystem of compatible products.

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The NEMA ANSI C137.4-2021 builds on the NEMA C137.41 7-pin connector standard and the DALI communication protocol. It has additional characteristics and features that align very closely with the D4i family of specifications from the DALI Alliance.

D4i and ANSI C137.4-2021 specify the digital communication between luminaires and devices including sensors and network lighting controllers. The expanded ANSI C137.4-2021 now includes energy reporting data and diagnostics and maintenance data.

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The NEMA ANSI C137.10 standard specifies roadway and area lighting equipment connector compatibility. The 3-pin standard does not provide for dimming control, but provides for on/off operation. The later standard C137.41 adds dimming control (5- and 7-pin connectors) and sensor control (7-pin connectors). The newer C137.4-2021 standard provides enhanced functionality and compatibility with the DALI D4i lighting and sensor control standard.

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The NEMA ANSI C137.41 standard specifies covers roadway and area lighting equipment connection interoperability. The 7-pin receptacle provides for dimming control and sensor communications.

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The NEMA ANSI C137.41 5-pin connector variant adds support for dimming control, but does not include sensor communications support which is supported by the 7-pin connector.

DALI, or Digital Addressable Lighting Interface, is a dedicated protocol for digital lighting control that enables the easy installation of robust, scalable and flexible lighting networks.

Wiring is relatively simple; DALI power and data is carried by the same pair of wires, without the need for a separate bus cable.

Read more at the DALI Alliance website: Introduction to DALI

The TALQ Consortium has established a globally accepted standard for management software interfaces to configure, command, control and monitor heterogeneous outdoor device networks (ODN) including smart street lighting.

This way interoperability between Central Management Software (CMS) and Outdoor Device Networks (ODN, so called ‘gateways’) for smart city applications from different vendors is enabled, such that a single CMS can control different ODNs in different parts of a city or region.

Read more at the TALQ website

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D4i is the DALI standard for intelligent, IoT-ready luminaires.

By taking care of control and power requirements, D4i makes it much easier to mount sensors and communication devices on luminaires. In addition, intelligent D4i LED drivers inside the luminaire have the capability to store and report a wide range of luminaire, energy and diagnostics data in a standardized format.

Infographic of Bluetooth Technology Global Standards

Highly reliable hardware, firmware, and software components that perform specific, critical security functions. Because roots of trust are inherently trusted, they must be secure by design. Roots of trust provide a firm foundation from which to build security and trust.

Read more at the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Roots of Trust

The 0.1, 0.2, and 0.5 accuracy class electricity meters established within ANSI C12.20-2015 are accurate to within +/-0.1%, +/-0.2%, and +/-0.5% of true value at a full load.

Read more at the ANSI Blog: ANSI C12.20-2015 – Electricity Meters – 0.1, 0.2, and 0.5 Accuracy Classes.

Tondo uses the ARM Cryptocell 310 cryptographic chip. Read more about the ARM 300 family here: ARM Cryptocell 300 Family Overview

The world would collectively achieve 10,546 TWh of energy savings by 2030 [with energy efficient lighting], a sum comparable to over 40% of the world electricity generation in 2011. Saving this amount of energy would prevent the emissions of 5,400 Mt CO2, a figure equivalent
to over 15% of the global emissions in 2011.

Source: United Nations Environment Programme (2014). Green Paper - Policy Options to Accelerate the Global Transition to Advanced Lighting.