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WESTMINSTER TAKES THE ‘LED’ IN STREET SIGNS
Local authorities across the UK will be able to take greater control of their roadside lighting systems, following a collaboration between an engineering firm and a street sign manufacturer. Harvard Engineering is an international company specialising in the design and manufacture of LED drivers and control products for the lighting industry. The company has teamed up with LED street sign manufacturer One2See Signs, to provide local authorities across the UK with a solution that allows them to totally control and monitor LED road signs. The partnership will see
Harvard’s wireless monitoring and control system, LeafNut, which was initially designed to work with street lighting, being installed alongside One2See Signs’ internally illuminated LED signs. The new solution will give local authorities the
ability to save energy and carbon emissions by accurately timed switching on and off, as well as being able to remotely manage lighting schedules and inventory. In addition, there will be a reduction in night
scouting costs due to LeafNut’s unique reporting feature, which can accurately predict lamp failure.
The controllable signs have already been successfully trialled by Westminster City Council,
REPLACING OLD FOR NEW IN BEDFORD
It’s all change at a busy Bedford town centre car park as the old barrier and pay-on-exit system is being replaced with the latest alpha numeric keypad machine and phone and pay.
The project and installation is being carried out by Creative Parking, and was instigated because of the high levels of congestion suffered at the car park. With its proximity to the town centre, the Greyfriars car park was extremely busy throughout the day, meaning that vehicles often had to queue at the barrier before entering. It closed early in the evening, and was not open on Sundays, causing a
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problem to shops that do open on Sundays. With the new keypad system, motorists are now able to enter the car park quickly and have a variety of payment options including cash, phone, text or smartphone application. The car park’s opening hours have also been extended to seven-days- a-week, 24-hours-a-day, providing an accessible and flexible car park. In addition, the phone and pay system aims to reduce crime by preventing motorists having to display the length of time they intend to be away from their vehicle as well as reducing maintenance costs caused by vandalism of parking barriers.
which was one of the first local authorities in the UK to install LeafNut to manage its street lighting. The council is now rolling out the solution across its street signs throughout the city, including in Arlington Street, Pall Mall and Carlisle Place. Russell Fletcher, sales and marketing director at Harvard, said: ‘Our partnership with One2See Signs means we can now offer local authorities a wireless solution to manage and control street lighting installations and all internally illuminated LED road signs. For councils with LeafNut already installed, the signs can be added at a minimal additional cost.’ LeafNut has been installed by approaching 100 local authorities worldwide, including Surrey County Council in the UK, Hobart in Tasmania, Paris, Sydney, Bargota in Spain, and Zurs in Austria.
IN BRIEF DEVON ELITE
Metric Group has supplied a second batch of Elite pay and display machines for South Devon, and these machines have been provided to meet a coastal installation specification. The coin-operated machines for South Hams District Council (SHDC) have been installed in Totnes. They follow on from a larger order made by SHDC for Elites supplied by Metric in 2012.
MEANWHILE, IN CHICHESTER... Chip and pin is to be introduced by Chichester District Council to a number of its paying car parks. Metric’s latest Elite model is replacing Accent coin-only machines across the council’s car parks. Robert Clark, parking services manager, said the introduction of wave and pay was a ‘customer focus-led’ solution.
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