MORE THAN JUST STREET LIGHTING CONTROL

 Christmas lighting can be remotely managed by Harvard’s LeafNut system

Harvard Engineering’s multi award winning wireless street lighting monitoring and control system LeafNut, has been proven to manage more than just street lights by successfully controlling Merthyr Tydfil’s Christmas street lights.

The solution for Merthyr’s Christmas Lighting uses a MagNode - a miniature wireless radio control system - attached to groups of Christmas lights. This allows the system’s central server to communicate with each group of lights, ensuring they can be accurately synchronised at times of switch on and off. 

By using LeafNut to manage and control festive lighting a significant number of man hours to install and maintain the festive lighting can be reduced, as lights and fuses do not need to be checked individually.

LeafNut provides Local Authorities with the ability to increase the reliability of Christmas lighting, also allowing for greater maintenance accuracy, as operators can identify light problems in advance, accurately predicting failures.

Michael McDonnell, sales and marketing director at Harvard Engineering, commented,

“We first intended for LeafNut to be used solely for street lighting, but the potential for the system to manage and control a variety of outdoor lighting quickly became apparent. The solution can not only help Councils with different outdoor lighting requirements, but also many companies that manage large outdoor lighting systems to save energy, reduce CO2 emissions as well as maintenance costs.”

LeafNut was chosen to power the Christmas lights in Merthyr Tydfil after the solution was successfully being rolled out across the council’s street lights.

Harvard Engineering
Established in 1993, Harvard has grown to be a leading player in the LED lighting and wireless street lighting industries. Harvard’s innovative range of products includes the CoolLED range of switchable drivers and LeafNut, the revolutionary wireless remote monitoring system for street lighting.

Awards
2011 - Shortlisted for the Orange Innovation Award at the National Business Awards
2011 – Winner Insider’s Growth 100 (Yorkshire) Innovation Award
2011 - Winner of the Innovation Award at the Wakefield Express Business Awards
2011 - Winner of a Queen’s Award for Enterprise, within the Innovation category
2010 - Winner of the Light Sources & Controls Award at the Lighting Design Awards
2010 - Winner of the Yorkshire Forward Innovator/10 Innovation in Action Award
2009 – Winner of the Yorkshire Post Business in Excellence

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