MTA’s Rutgers Tube outfitted with IOT-based emergency lighting

Clear-Vu Lighting designed and installed clearNET, the first IOT-based wireless monitoring and control system for emergency lighting and other mission critical life safety assets in subway tunnels on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) Rutgers Tube project, the F-Line between Manhattan and Brooklyn.

The clearNET system enables capabilities previously unattainable in transit environments, significantly improving the safety for passengers, workers and first responders, while also realizing energy savings and improving operational efficiencies for transit agencies.

On the Rutgers Tube project, the clearNET + MTLx system generated combined capital and operating savings of $2,744,113 between materials, electricity, maintenance labor and efficiencies tied to the work light function. In addition to the benefits tied to the clearNET system, the illumination levels produced by the MTLx light fixture in the Rutgers tube will be four times the standard level throughout the legacy New York City Transit tunnel system for improved visibility.