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Muscat, Oman: Imtac LLC, a leader in IT and Industry 4.0 solution in Oman and Signify, formerly known as Philips Lighting, the world leader in lighting, today signed a contract, to provide state of the art Smart Street lighting solution to Muscat Municipality. The contract was signed in the presence of top management of both the companies.
“As a global leader in connected lighting, we are proud to provide our latest IoT technology of Interact City in Muscat Municipality using more than 20,000 connected street lighting luminaires throughout the project providing up to 85% energy saving, reducing maintenance costs while leveraging the value of smart street lighting systems for additional benefits.” said Goktug Gur, President and CEO of Signify METAP.
Fareed Al Hinai, Vice Chairman IMTAC, said, “we are very excited about implementation of energy saving street lighting solution for Muscat Municipality and to help create a sustainable infrastructure in Oman”.
“Our relationship with Signify is critical to our Smart City roadmap and it addresses Oman’s 2040 vision”, added Fareed.
By signing this contract, the two companies will implement more than 13000 smart LED lights in the city of Muscat that are controlled by 370 smart remote controls. Once implemented the two companies would have installation base of more than 20,000 smart streetlamps in the city that are all controlled remotely thus saving significant amount of energy for the municipality and lower the carbon footprint in the city.
Mukesh Arora, CEO, IMTAC LLC, said “our partnership with Signify has helped us combine our widely used Industry 4.0 solution with the global best practices in lighting from Signify. Imtac LLC, through its Smart City brand “empyreal” is a leader in Industry 4.0 solution in the areas of Municipal Operations, Building Management, Urban & Social Infrastructure, Healthcare, Water & Wastewater management, and Manufacturing Industries.”
Smart streetlighting systems with their dimming-based energy saving capabilities are finding widespread deployment across the world. Over the past few years, millions of smart streetlights with associated control systems have been added by city municipalities across the globe. LED lamps have served as a default replacement of conventional lights which were consuming multiple times more energy than their LED replacement.
Municipal bodies have the responsibility of providing appropriate lighting levels in the city and at the same time, keep the energy costs to their minimum. Most cities such as Muscat have strategic plans that specify how lighting is to be provided and their intensity to be controlled online for different areas of the city. By doing this there is direct saving in the energy cost.
Zeyad Al Zadjali, Director of Lighting & Traffic-light at Muscat Municipality, said, “Energy saving and city beautification through streetlights has been a very high priority for Muscat Municipality. We have deployed world class technology to implement LED based streetlights that are remotely controlled using state of the art LED luminaires and computing hardware and software.”
The latest lighting and control technology from Imtac and Signify helps city planners in creating and executing dynamic operation schedule and dimming levels for the city sections. This capability offers a variety of opportunities for the municipality to keep the illumination at their optimal and reduce the energy cost significantly thus making the city more sustainable.
“Our offering on smart street lighting is yet another successful milestone for Signify on leveraging technology for brighter lives and a better world. As customer centricity lying at the heart of our core values, we always use our knowhow to combine technology and digitalization for sustainability according to our customer's needs'', added George Brax, Signify’ s Country Leader for Middle East (excl. KSA).
It is estimated that there are 300 million streetlights in the world and this market is growing rapidly. In the past only about 10-20% of the streetlamps were smart controlled. This is however set to change and grow multiple times as per the industry estimates.
With lighting alone accounting for such a large portion of a city’s total energy consumption, the need for cost-effective and sustainable options is crucial. Simply switching to LED lighting can result in electricity savings of up to 50-60% and by adding smart control systems, the overall energy savings can go up to 80%.
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About imtac
Imtac LLC established in 1984 in Oman operates in multiple geographies through direct operations, subsidiaries and JVs. Imtac is a leading provider of technology solutions in the fields of IT, smart cities (public lighting, water distribution and management, surveillance etc.), telecommunications, healthcare, education and traffic management. Imtac provides product engineering, Industry 4.0 solution, Academic Management System and Human Efficiency Tracking System and has established itself as the leading provider of eGovernance solution. For additional information visit: http://www.imtac.com/
About Signify
Signify (Euronext: LIGHT) is the world leader in lighting for professionals and consumers and lighting for the Internet of Things. Our Philips products, Interact connected lighting systems and data-enabled services, deliver business value and transform life in homes, buildings and public spaces. With 2020 sales of EUR 6.5 billion, we have approximately 38,000 employees and are present in over 70 countries. We unlock the extraordinary potential of light for brighter lives and a better world. We achieved carbon neutrality in 2020, have been in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index since our IPO for four consecutive years and were named Industry Leader in 2017, 2018 and 2019. News from Signify is located at the Newsroom, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram. Information for investors can be found on the Investor Relations page.
For further information, contact:
Nivruti Sheth
Corporate Communications
IMTAC LLC
E: pr@imtac.com
Ebru Ertan Bilge
Integrated and Marketing Communications Director
Middle East, Turkey, Africa & Pakistan
Signify
E: ebru.bilge@signify.com (Turkey)
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