Suffolk County Council has been piloting radar-based traffic-dependent dynamic streetlight dimming on arterial routes across Ipswich, as part of a wider research project into how carbon emissions associated with public lighting can be reduced. It is also potentially an important step on the council's smart city journey'. Suffolk County Council has been a sustainability trailblazer in the management of street lighting carbon emissions, with a decade of part-night lighting, switch off, CMS monitoring and management for faults and metering. These advances support Suffolk's 'creating the greenest county' agenda, and have been recognised with a range of awards across the industry. This environmentally-focused, trials-led approach enabled Suffolk to be selected as one of seven pilot partners (with nine project partners) in the international 'Smart Lights Concept' project, as this journal reported last year ('Future thinking', Lighting Journal, June 2020, vol 85 no 6).
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