Philips 2015 Annual Report Download - page 20

Our strategic focus 4.6
20 Annual Report 2015
Connected lighting delivering
value beyond illumination
With Philips CityTouch, Los Angeles remotely manages more than
100,000 street lights to create a more livable city.
In 2015, Los Angeles became the rst city in the world
to control its street lighting through an advanced Philips
management system that uses mobile and cloud-
based technologies.
With Philips CityTouch, the LA Bureau of Street Lighting
can remotely control street lighting xtures, as well as
monitor energy use and the status of each light. Using
mobile chip technology embedded into each xture,
the street lights are able to identify themselves and
network instantly.
This smart plug-and-play approach not only reduces
the cost of programming each xture, it also reduces the
time required for commissioning from days to minutes
and eliminates on-site commissioning completely.
Furthermore, CityTouch oers system managers a real-
time, map-based view of all connected light points via
any standard web browser.
“I call it priceless,” says Ed Ebrahimian, Director of the LA
Bureau of Street Lighting, “because if we can save one
life by nding out if a light is out and xing it right away,
we’ve done our job.”