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Centralized control over the majority of a municipality’s lighting network
Zarasai municipality now manages the majority of its public lighting through Lusety cabinet controllers connected to the HORIZON platform. Rather than upgrading a handful of streets in isolation, the municipality built control across the network first, giving its staff a single point of command over city lighting that previously had to be managed cabinet by cabinet, on a case by case basis.
Location:
Zarasai, Lithuania
Hardware:
LIGHT KEEPER cabinet controllers
Software:
Urban lighting management platform HORIZON
The challenge
Most municipalities know surprisingly little about their own lighting network. Zarasai was no exception. The city’s lighting worked, in the sense that it came on at night. Only almost everything about how it worked was invisible from the municipal office:
- Switching and scheduling had to be set at each cabinet physically, so any change meant a round trip to every location
- Faults became known when a resident reported them, which meant a street could stay dark for days before anyone found out
- Lighting ran to whatever schedule each cabinet had been left on, with no guarantee that the lighting was behaving consistently
- Any plan to modernize further had no baseline to build on, because the current state was not measured
The underlying problem was not that the equipment was old. It was that the municipality had no way to see or direct its own network. Every operational decision depended on someone physically going to look.
The solution: centralized lighting control
Zarasai municipality worked with Lusety to install control cabinets across the majority of the city’s lighting network, all reporting into the HORIZON management platform:
- Lighting cabinet controllers deployed across the city, bringing the bulk of the network under managed control rather than treating a single area as a pilot
- Centralized switching and scheduling, so the whole city can be configured from one interface instead of cabinet by cabinet
- Segment-level visibility into operating status, making it possible to see what the network is actually doing at any hour
- HORIZON as the single point of oversight, replacing physical inspection as the primary way of knowing anything about the system
Results & benefits
City-wide lighting control from one interface
Schedules, switching and operating parameters for the majority of the network are now set centrally. A change that previously meant visiting cabinets across the city is applied in one place, in minutes.
Faults found before residents report them
The municipality can now see when a segment is not operating as expected, rather than waiting for a phone call. Response starts from knowing where the problem is, not from driving around looking for it.
Fewer service trips
Routine schedule and configuration work no longer requires travel. Staff time moves from driving between cabinets to resolving the issues that genuinely need someone on site.
Looking ahead
For other municipalities weighing where to start, Zarasai offers a practical answer. Control of the network is not the exciting part of smart lighting, but it is the part that makes the rest possible.