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Public Lighting

Ireland's 31 Local Authorities and Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) manage and maintain over 480,000 public lights across the country.  These lights consume 210 million kWh of energy annually, which is the equivalent to the total annual energy use of 15,500 domestic homes each year. 

The RMO were tasked by the National Public Lighting Steering Group to explore options to reduce energy consumption and upgrade the existing Public Lighting asset to a state-of-the-art public service. 

The Local Authority Public Lighting Energy Efficiency Project’s (PLEEP) was established with the primary aim to enable Local Authorities reach their statutory energy efficiency targets and help achieve a 50% reduction in energy consumption by 2030.

MapRoad Public Lighting system (MPL) was developed specifically to support the delivery of the PLEEP. MPL operates both on desktop and mobile applications and is used by the PLEEP contractors, Local Authorities and the PLEEP project team to capture data and monitor progress through the PLEEP contract. 

Each public light is spatially mapped in MPL with functionality to record 135 individual inventory attributes including photos and files against each lighting and service pillar asset. As part of the survey process each asset will also get a condition rating across 25 categories.  MPL’s dataset is dynamic, updated daily as the surveys and retrofits are recorded via the mobile App on site by the contractor.