Smart Grid

• Your HV and MV networks are fully automated, but you have no knowledge of what is going on in the LV grid.
• Your existing substation equipment is outdated.
• You are losing energy, but cannot determine the exact location.
• You have no tools to predict the next power outage.
• You cannot monitor the power quality in your network.
• You are making connectivity changes in your LV network, but updating them to the control room is time consuming and tedious.
• You think adding intelligence in all your substations is too expensive.
• You rely on estimations and cannot accurately determine consumption at each major node.

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Streetlight management

• Your streetlights are controlled with timers and/or photocells.
• You have no knowledge of burn hours or the exact amount of kWh spent.
• You have no central control or monitoring facilities.
• You have no knowledge of power leaks in your system
• You cannot remotely control your streetlights or retrieve vital information from street cabinets.
• You have no ability to minimize energy consumption at off-peak traffic hours.
• You rely on citizens to report streetlight faults.
• You are met with energy savings requirements from politicians.

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Advanced metering

• You are still collecting meter data manually.
• You cannot remotely connect or disconnect end users.
• Your billing information is often incorrect.
• You cannot detect fraud or technical losses.
• Making forecasts is difficult and time consuming.
• You cannot perform demand management.
• You are not ready to embrace the future smart homes.
• You cannot move forward with Smart Grid until your consumption meters are made smart.

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Water management

• You are losing water in your network, but cannot determine the location of the leak.
• A complete, one-time modernization of your network is unrealistic.
• You have no overview of the current network status.
• You cannot act on upcoming shortages.
• You have only limited control of water distribution and pressure.
• You are met with requirements to preserve water.

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Philips acquires AmpLight™

Philips and Amplex have announced that Philips is acquiring the AmpLight™ solution for streetlight control and management.

AmpLight in use at Earth Hour 2010

Using the flexibility in AmpLight, a number of customers have turned off their streetlights to acknowledge and participate in Earth Hour 2010.

Amplex and SEAS-NVE sign agreement on energy efficient streetlight system

Amplex sells intelligent streetlight solution to Danish energy company SEAS-NVE.