The Federal Capital Territory Authority has begun upgrading the Airport Road lighting in Abuja with intelligent Smart Light Emitting Diode (LED) lights.
This upgrade aims to realize the vision of a greater FCT, complementing the ongoing infrastructural development.
According to Felix Obuah, Coordinator of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council, plans are underway to migrate all major roads and streets in Abuja to smart LED lighting. The contract has been awarded and will be implemented in phases.
“We are ready to light up Abuja,” he said.
Obuah had last week decried the attitude of some streetlight contractors that failed to meet up with standards, threatening to blacklist them.
However, in a statement on Sunday, the Executive Director, Tejaff Multi-Concept Limited, Mrs Ronke Ozoh, said the company in charge of the project, Concrete Thinking Limited, recently commenced the upgrade.
She said that thousands of units of Smart LED will be fixed from the Airport Road area to the Central Area of the FCT to give it the befitting looks of the smart city.
Ozoh, who visited the site last week, noted that LED lighting would result in a reduction of up to 60 per cent of the operations and maintenance costs of streetlight infrastructure.
She said a smart LED streetlight system is one of the enabling technologies for a Smart City, adding that the intelligent nature of this streetlighting system enables remote management of streetlight assets and ensures enhanced.
“The intelligent smart LED can give the exact amount of energy consumed. It can also be detected from a central control unit if any of the bulbs is faulty. It will also help inaccurate energy consumption bills from electricity companies,” she said.