Oceanside installs GPS-enabled LED street lights

GE Lighting has announced that the city of Oceanside, CA has installed more than 7700 LED street lights, with each luminaire equipped with the company's LightGrid network and control technology including the integration of a GPS IC.

The combination of efficient solid-state lighting (SSL), the ability to dim the lighting, and the location-aware communications is projected to yield $600,000 annually in energy and maintenance savings.


LightGrid is GE's outdoor network technology that is based on wireless mesh networking among luminaires with sporadically-located gateways that can utilize Ethernet or even cellular networks to backhaul the connection to a cloud-based control system.