IEEE Power & Energy Magazine - May/June 2015 - 67
Streetlights Are
Getting Smarter
Integrating an Intelligent Communications
and Control System to the Current Infrastructure
W
WHILE THERE ARE MANY SOLUTIONS TO EXISTING ISSUES WITH POWER
distribution, an emerging solution that is gaining traction with utilities and consumers is the
smart grid. Adding communications to existing grid infrastructure and increasing the capability of grid devices, to manage changing situations that affect the grid, greatly increases
the capability of our aging electrical infrastructure. Unfortunately, these increases are not
without setbacks as additional network infrastructure can add to the vulnerability of an
aging grid and be susceptible to storms and other events.
The Center for Smart Grid Applications Research and Technology (CSMART)
at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) has installed the first networked lightemitting diode (LED) streetlights in the city of Chicago to improve the reliability
and economics of its main campus, 2.5 mi south of downtown Chicago. Research
shows that these networked LED streetlights greatly reduce a city's rising
energy costs, but the CSMART project team has set out to prove the benefits of
integrating an intelligent communications and control system with an existing smart grid infrastructure, such as an existing network and supervisory
control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems. In addition to assessing
the economic and environmental drivers for the intelligent streetlight
solution, the project team is dedicated to assessing the potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities of such a system and working to mitigate or
eliminate them. We believe that the benefits of integration with the
existing infrastructure in a secure manner will bring customers and
By Mohammad Shahidehpour,
Carol Bartucci, Nipesh Patel,
Tom Hulsebosch,
Patrick Burgess,
and Nathan Buch
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may/june 2015
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MPE.2015.2397335
Date of publication: 17 April 2015
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