How can street lighting owners benefit from the TALQ standard?

Street lighting “owners”…

• Cities/Municipalities

• Provinces/States

• Construction companies

• Maintenance companies

• Utilities

• Road/Highway Authorities

• Energy Service Companies (ESCOs)

• Managed Service companies

• Private owners (Business Parks, Campuses)

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Agenda

1. Outdoor Lighting Market

2. TALQ consortium introduced

3. TALQ specification & certification

4. Benefits for owners by specifying TALQ

5. Partner Program

6. Summary

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1. Outdoor Lighting Market

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Trends in outdoor lighting

• The introduction of full electronic LED luminaires in outdoor enables the possibilities for (remote) controls and dimming

• The demand for cost savings through energy reduction and the reduction of CO2 emissions is increasing

• There is a need for reducing light levels without compromising road safety and security

• There is a need to automate workflows and reduce labor costs

• A concentration/reorganization of city management systems, including lighting, is ongoing

A move to „intelligent networks‟ in (public) outdoor

lighting

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Background and definitions

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Problem in current market

• Multiple proprietary systems and interfaces

• Interoperability problem

– Different management systems in one area/city

– Difficult to integrate, operate and maintain

• Lack of standards slows down the growth of OLNs

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2. TALQ consortium introduced

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• The TALQ consortium standardizes the application protocol at the

interface between the Central Management System and Outdoor

Lighting Networks

• TALQ delivers a software protocol specification for this interface that

covers parameters and behavior of end-points at the OLN and CMS

side, needed for interoperability at application level

• TALQ shall not specify any physical aspect of the connection or

connectivity nor how to achieve the required illumination behavior

• TALQ shall allow for vendor specific function or feature

implementations of the local/segment controllers and management

systems, fostering competition and differentiation of vendors

What is the TALQ consortium?

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The TALQ consortium members

• Global co-operation of major industry members

• TALQ promotes the deployment of OLN systems by

– Delivering and governing a well defined interface specification

– Managing a certification and compliance program

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Why was TALQ founded?

• Accelerate the adoption of outdoor lighting networks to provide:

– Energy savings and CO2 reduction

– Improved monitoring and maintenance

– Highly adaptive and programmable controls

– Simplified data collection

• Enable system interoperability

• Avoid the fear of vendor lock-in

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3. TALQ specification & certification

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What is OLN interoperability?

The TALQ Application Protocol enables management of multi-vendor OLNs by one single CMS

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Key features of the TALQ specification

• Multi-level control

• Extensive calendar and programming functions

• Adaptive lighting

• Monitoring

• Measurements and data logging

• System configuration and upgrades

• Scalability and security

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Mandatory, optional and vendor specific functionality

• Next to the mandatory functionality, vendors can make their own choices from the optional functionality specified in TALQ and are able to add own unique functionality.

• Functionality is split in three different categories:

Vendor specific Not specified in TALQ, format defined Optional Vendor can make choice from the optional TALQ functionality Mandatory Basic functionality needed for outdoor lighting operation to be acted upon by every TALQ compliant OLN/CMS

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TALQ certification

• The TALQ consortium will manage a certification and compliance program

• Product interfaces must pass a TALQ certification process to hold the TALQ certification symbol

• The certification process is under development and it may include a combination of

– Tests with a certification tool-suite

– Plug-fests for interoperability verification

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4. Benefits for owners by specifying TALQ

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Benefits of TALQ for owners

• Specifying TALQ in a tender will guarantee…

– That over 20 qualified vendors can reply

– System interoperability between all of them

– Certified and approved vendors

– Freedom of choice for future expansion

– No vendor lock-in

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Example

• First tender includes 10k light points – Vendor A* is selected and offers a CMS and OLN

• 3 years later a second tender is issued for another 15k light points – Vendor A has raised its prices so this time Vendor

B* is selected

– Vendor B offers an OLN for 15k light points that can be connected to the CMS of Vendor A

• 5 years later Vendor A goes out of business – A new CMS from Vendor C* can be purchased to

connect to the OLNs of Vendor A and Vendor B

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x.y The lighting control system shall comply to the TALQ

standards as defined by the TALQ consortium described in

version y.z. It must be possible to connect lighting control

devices from other TALQ compliant suppliers….The supplier shall

prove that the overall system has been TALQ certified….The

supplier shall list projects where it has successfully connected its

CMS to control devices from another vendor…etc.

Example tender text

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5. Partner Program

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TALQ Partner Program

• Aimed at Municipalities, Utilities, Consultants etc.

• License for confidential evaluation of the TALQ Specification

• No license to manufacture or distribute products based on the TALQ Specification (only “non-commercial use” allowed)

• Access to TALQ Consortium promotion events

– Workshops, seminars, demonstrations, presentations etc.

• Partner listing on TALQ Website

• Link to the Partner website

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6. Summary

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Summary

• TALQ is a global consortium of industry players

– Industry-wide co-operation of members from all regions

– Aim is setting a globally accepted standard

• TALQ will establish methods for certifying that CMS/OLN systems comply with the specification

• TALQ will offer the completed specification to an SDO (Standards Development Organization) for formal standardization

• You will benefit from the TALQ standardization efforts as it will give you continued freedom of choice

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