Industry Leaders Join Forces to Help Utilities,
Cities, and Large Campus Operators Upgrade Aging Street Light
Infrastructure and Create Path to Smart Cities
Today at the IES Street & Area Lighting Conference, North
America’s largest conference dedicated to improving the outdoor
lighting business of electric utilities and energy service
providers, Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE:AYI), through its subsidiary
Acuity Brands Lighting, Inc., and Silver Spring Networks, Inc.
(NYSE:SSNI) announced an agreement to jointly develop an
intelligent lighting platform for utilities, cities, and large
campus operators which will allow them to upgrade their aging
lighting infrastructure and establish a path to additional smart
city applications and services.
In the first step of the relationship, the two industry leaders
will jointly develop a networked street light control solution.
This solution will integrate Silver Spring’s standards-based Gen5
IPv6 networking platform and Streetlight.Vision smart city
management software, which enables operators to monitor and control
networked streetlights, with Acuity Controls’ DTL® DLL Elite™
intelligent photocontrols.
With more than 45 million street and highway lights in the US,
and nearly 300 million street lights worldwide, there is an ongoing
trend to upgrade aging infrastructure to networked, long-lasting
and efficient LED street and area lighting. Older street lights can
consume up to 40 percent of a city’s energy budget, and require
manual identification and maintenance to repair individual
luminaires. By networking upgraded LED luminaires, cities can lower
costs by as much as 60 percent by reducing energy expenses and
increasing operational efficiency. Intelligent street lights can
also vary brightness based on traffic flows, time of night, and
inclement weather, helping increase road safety for drivers and
pedestrians.
“This joint development effort brings the strengths of two
market leaders together. We are delighted to collaborate with
Silver Spring to add to our portfolio of technology to deliver
proven, smart lighting control and networking to large-scale
lighting operators. We anticipate that these solutions will enable
our customers to leverage their smart lighting canopy to easily and
cost-effectively deploy additional smart city applications over
time," said Audwin Cash, Vice President of Acuity Controls.
“We’re honored to work with a leader such as Acuity Brands and
be a core part of their solutions portfolio. Like Acuity, we
believe that the pace of innovation in networked lighting controls
is increasing rapidly, and that combining Acuity’s deep industry
knowledge and broad customer base with Silver Spring’s leading
networking and smart city management platform will accelerate
adoption and value,” said Brandon Davito, Vice President of Smart
Cities and Lighting, Silver Spring Networks. “We look forward to
being able to help utilities, cities and other operators around the
world utilize their smart lighting networks as the linchpin for
even more sophisticated smart city applications and services.”
Acuity is one of the world’s largest outdoor lighting solution
providers with customers across the US, Europe, and Asia. Acuity’s
DTL DLL Elite photocell has set the standard for long-life light
sensors and will provide the foundation for the integrated Acuity
and Silver Spring solution. Silver Spring Networks has delivered
more than 21.5 million critical infrastructure devices worldwide,
including selection for nearly 500,000 street lights in what is
believed to be the world’s largest smart street lights program in
Miami and South Florida. Silver Spring also connects critical
infrastructure in iconic global cities such as Chicago, Copenhagen,
Glasgow, Melbourne, Mexico City, Paris, San Francisco, Sao Paulo,
Singapore, and Washington, D.C., among others.
To learn more please visit the Acuity Booth (# 17) and
the Silver Spring Networks Booth (#23) at the 2015 Street
and Area Lighting Conference in Savannah, Ga. October 5-7.
About Acuity Brands
Acuity Brands, Inc. is a North American market leader and one of
the world's leading providers of lighting solutions for both indoor
and outdoor applications. With fiscal year 2014 net sales of $2.4
billion, Acuity Brands employs approximately 7,000 associates and
is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia with operations throughout
North America, and in Europe and Asia. The Company's lighting
solutions are sold under various brands, including Lithonia
Lighting®, Holophane®, Peerless®, Gotham®, Mark Architectural
Lighting(TM), Winona® Lighting, Healthcare Lighting®, Hydrel®,
American Electric Lighting®, Carandini®, Antique Street Lamps(TM),
Sunoptics®, RELOC® Wiring Solutions, eldoLED®, Distech Controls®
and Acuity Controls™. For more information, visit
www.acuitybrands.com.
About Silver Spring Networks
Silver Spring Networks is a leading networking platform and
solutions provider for smart energy networks. Silver Spring’s
pioneering IPv6 networking platform, with more than 21.5 million
Silver Spring enabled devices delivered, is connecting utilities to
homes and business throughout the world with the goal of achieving
greater energy efficiency for the planet. Silver Spring’s
innovative solutions enable utilities to gain operational
efficiencies, improve grid reliability, and empower consumers to
monitor and manage energy consumption. Silver Spring Networks
customers include major utilities around the globe such as
Baltimore Gas & Electric, CitiPower & Powercor,
Commonwealth Edison, CPS Energy, Florida Power & Light, Jemena
Electricity Networks Limited, Pacific Gas & Electric, Pepco
Holdings, Progress Energy and Singapore Power, among others. To
learn more, please visit www.silverspringnet.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements about
Acuity Brands’ and Silver Spring Networks’ expectations, plans,
intentions, and strategies, including, but not limited to
statements regarding the scope and benefits of the relationship
between the companies. Statements including words such as
"anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "expect" or “future” and
statements in the future tense are forward-looking statements.
These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties,
as well as assumptions, which, if they do not fully materialize or
prove incorrect, could cause the results of either company to
differ materially from those expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties include the
successful implementation of the relationship between Acuity Brands
and Silver Springs Networks, as well as those described in
documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange
Commission by either company. All forward-looking statements in
this press release are based on information available to Acuity
Brands and Silver Spring Networks as of the date hereof. Acuity
Brands and Silver Spring Networks assume no obligation to update
these forward-looking statements.
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Silver Spring NetworksAmy Cook, 650-839-4183Global
Communicationsacook@silverspringnet.comorAcuity Brands LightingNeil
Egan, 770-860-2957Director,
Communicationsneil.egan@acuitybrands.com
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