Smart City Mission: CCP roads to be adorned with urbanised heritage street lights

VITHALDAS HEGDE

vhegde3@herald-goa.com

PANJIM: The capital city will soon sport designed electricity poles fitted with power saving LED streetlights under the Smart City Mission. The entire limits of the Corporation of City of Panaji (CCP) will have new range of poles in different sizes and fittings under the Panjim street lighting upgrade project – urban range – heritage lighting.

Nearly 3800 poles along with new fixtures will be replaced at an estimated cost of Rs 479 crore. 

The road divider from Miramar circle to Ribandar causeway, KTC bus terminus area and the Dayanand Bandodkar Road will now have nine-metre-high Chatsworth poles, 3.83-metre-high Blenheim poles with Porto NU fittings, all with 110 watts of power.

The M G Road and tourist spots will have eight-metre-tall conical chatsworth pole with moon fitting and 100 watts of power while, colony areas in Panjim, Miramar, Altinho and Patto area will sport six and eight metres tall classic poles with lida fittings with 75 and 120 watts of power.   

The octagonal poles with Hana fittings will be installed on all small and internal lanes of Ribandar, Panjim and Caranzalem. These roads will have three types – 40, 75 and 120 watts of power producing three levels of light.

The nine-metre-high twin arm popus poles with light 34 fittings and 70 watts of power will be installed along the road from Goa Science Centre, Miramar to St Michael High School.

According to CCP sources, the smart lighting will increase the road safety through improved quality of light and through state-of-the-art streetlights. It is also cost effective and provides safety and security comfort besides saving energy.   

The CCP sources further informed that the Imagine Panaji Smart City Development Limited (IPSCDL) has given its in-principle and the final approval was awaited as the electricity department could not include the smart component. The same has now been included and the IPSCDL will approve the Panjim street lighting upgrade project replacing existing electricity poles and streetlights in its next Board meeting. 

The features of smart lighting is that it will have scheduled switch on/off; scheduled dimming; motion sensing streetlights, intelligent maintenance, streetlight batch-making; multi-layered and decentralised control; energy usage monitoring, reporting and timely billing cycle, etc.

With the introduction of smart lighting panels with integrated centralised control and monitoring system (CCMS), streetlights can be switched on/off from any central office or branch office via computer or mobile and reduce wastage of energy.