Mexico. During the Jalisco Campus Night held at the Diana Theater, the Government of Guadalajara awarded the winners of the challenge so that citizens could help think and develop applications that will facilitate the energy monitoring of the city's public lighting, so with an innovative and practical proposal, Héctor Durán López Velarde and Adrián Ramos Carretero presented a viable solution through the use of free platforms.
According to Diego Monraz Villaseñor, Coordinator of Municipal Services, last July this challenge was launched on the public luminaires of the city and it was proposed to develop a real-time monitoring system that would allow to know exactly the useful life of each focus and the real consumption of energy, instead of the estimated consumption that is as it is currently done.
He considered that the technological application should save the city money, which could be used for other programs that serve people.
"The Municipal President asked us to launch a challenge, the city has lived in the dark in many of its points for decades, we need to transform the technology of our city to recover public space, give more security to this beautiful city, that is why the direction of public lighting required the first monitoring system. We believed that there would be talent from the other side to answer it and the good news is that there was; we want today to thank all those who participated, all very good proposals, we had to choose one of them and it was the proposal that gave us among other things the greatest ease, the greatest economy, that it was a practical proposal, achievable in technology and local teams and that was what was selected today", Diego Monraz Villaseñor commanded.
"Congratulations to this team of talented young people, thank you for believing in Guadalajara and thank you for the benefit that your proposal will bring us. This award is an incentive that we hope will serve in their growth and technological knowledge. The prize is nothing more and nothing less than an all-paid trip to the city of Eindhoven in the Netherlands, to the Phillips headquarters, where state-of-the-art technology is developed around the world, congratulations and hopefully it will be very useful to you, "he added.
The winning initiative proposes for each luminaire a device and for each set of luminaires (20 or 30) a Gateway coordinator that will connect to the cloud or CLOUD and can be monitored from desktop computers and applications for mobile devices. Among the benefits of this intelligent application is that you will have a real payment of the energy, timely reports of its operation and preventive maintenance.
"Technologies based on free platforms reduce the existing gap with the most developed countries and in turn encourage local creativity, while reducing prices and dependence. We believe in the phrase fail often, succeed sooner, because we believe that you have to try and make mistakes a lot... but soon and cheap", considered the winners when presenting their project.
