Phillips Unveils Solar/Wind Hybrid Streetlights in Moscow
An intelligent LED street lighting system that stays dim when humans are not around but increases its luminosity when it senses people walking nearby has been unveiled.
Philips, promotes the innovative street lighting concept as an ecological street light pole. The pole adapts its shape to capture the maximum source energy from sun and wind during daytime, using this energy during the night for illumination.
Depending on weather conditions, it can alternate between solar and wind modes.
Employing ‘flower mechanics’, the Light Blossom opens its petals to collect solar energy on sunny days and reorients them upwards to harness wind energy on cloudy days which, in turn, powers the lighting pole at night.
