Germany's Green Idea: Street Lighting on Demand

Re:Germany's Green Idea: Street Lighting on Demand by furyg3 on Thursday July 02, 2009 @05:10AM (#684067)

Wow. Talk about over-engineering.

Seems like a button would have done the trick.

Put them at the ends of streets (or one on each lamppost, if you can afford it) and have it turn on the lights for the street/block.

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Re:Germany's Green Idea: Street Lighting on Demand by sethg on Thursday July 02, 2009 @08:28AM (#684235)

Installing the buttons incurs a capital cost, and then there's the cost of maintenance, and the risk that vandals will pound on the buttons just for the hell of it.

By contrast, the Dial4Light system builds on infrastructure for both control and authentication that already exists.

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Re:Germany's Green Idea: Street Lighting on Demand by Raphael on Thursday July 02, 2009 @05:14AM (#684071)

No man, motion sensors.

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Re:Germany's Green Idea: Street Lighting on Demand by heroin on Thursday July 02, 2009 @06:09AM (#684117)

That would just be more expensive and less reliable. buttons would do the trick, except for the case you want to have lights on in the moment you are leaving your house.

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Re:Germany's Green Idea: Street Lighting on Demand by PebblesRox on Thursday July 02, 2009 @08:11AM (#684222)

It gives the kids a good excuse for wanting a cell phone :)

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