Sentinel System vs. Competitive Lighting Network Technologies

Relume Licensed RF System     Mesh Network ISM System   Power Line Modems
Extreme ease of installation uses existing city infrastructure with ‘plug & play’ components     Moderately complicated & costly – requires RF survey, possible interfering signals   Complicated & costly – requires local data concentrators and web access or a broadband network
Intrinsically compatible with LED street lights of all types     Will interface with HID lamps with special dimmable ballasts   Will interface with HID lamps with special dimmable ballasts
Interference immunity – high protected communication link     Interference immunity – low shared ISM radio frequencies   Interference immunity – moderate power lines are intrinsically noisy
Ability to sequentially strobe lamps for evacuation routes     Sequential strobing is not possible because of timing issues   Sequential strobing is not possible because of timing issues
Emergency call button feature implicit in controller functions     Emergency call button feature difficult & costly to implement   Emergency call button feature difficult & costly to implement
Remote emergency key fob is simple to implement at low cost     Remote emergency key fob is difficult & costly to implement   Remote emergency key fob is impossible or very costly

 

Typical Municipal System Using Power Line Modems
(Echelon Type)

 

Typical Municipal System Using a Radio Mesh Network
(Streetlight Intelligence Type)

 

Sentinel System Using Municipal Licensed Radio Repeaters