1. Florida Power and Light
CJ Boguszewski
Global Commercial Director
Smart Lights and Cities
Silver Spring Networks
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2. Who is FPL?
Investor-Owned Utilities in the USA
Name # cust* MWh sold*
Florida Power & Light 4,515,032 105,003,376
Georgia Power 2,359,765 87,160,371
Pacific Gas & Electric 5,213,528 84,045,146
Dominion Resources 2,304,117 76,895,671
Southern CA Edison 5,212,170 75,597,423
Com Edison 3,743,215 43,609,598
DTE Energy 2,117,878 42,490,936
Public Service EG 2,115,116 26,613,454
Con Edison 2,677,350 24,141,995
* 2011 figures
• Lighting stock of more than 500,000 lights
• Some lighting infrastructure dates from the
1920s
• Organic growth and lack of strict record-keeping
means maintenance and operational headaches
• Lights in territory also owned by private entities,
municipalities …
• Energy reduction by using LEDs or dimming not
currently high on the agenda
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3. South-East FL: Network Coverage
From 75,000 street lights in
pilot phase with SSN …
… to nearly 500,000 street
lights across its 35-county
service territory statewide
World’s largest announced
network lighting programme
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4. Proven Network, Proving Lighting
• FPL today already runs:
– ~4MM AMI devices
– > 100k DA devices
– Wide range of other
devices in small numbers
• Lighting solution
includes a new (for FPL)
partner ecosystem,
needed verification
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5. Miami-Dade County – Testing Ground
• Home to 2.5M people in 4500 sqkm
– considered a “World City” like
Copenhagen, Paris, Singapore etc
• Terrain varies from dense urban
(Brickell) to wilderness (Everglades)
• FPL serves almost all of the county
• Approx. 75,000 lights to network
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6. Streetlight Control Architecture
CMS
Network
Internet
Light Operator Station
• Secure web connection
• Full management of system
• Full access to data
StreetLight.Vision CMS
• Full Security Mangement
• Seamless Upgrades
• Robust functionality
Network from Silver Spring
• Photocell to Datacenter
connectivity via IPv6
• Connection guarantees
• Photocell Firmware upgrades
Networked Photocell (variety of vendors)
• C136.41 5/7-PIN NEMA
• Long-life (1/5/10 year warranty)
• 2%,1%,.5% energy accuracy
7. FPL’s Horizontal Network Platform
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Smart Energy
Distribution
Autom
Advanced
Metering
for Power,
Gas, Water
Demand
Response
Energy
Efficiency
Customer
Engagement
RenewablesSolar
Network Environment
IPv6 Network
Control and Security Mechanisms
Data Platform
Smart City
TrafficStreet lights EV Signage
App
store
8. Criteria to Define Benefits
• FPL’s focus is
productivity gains
– no good geospatial info
– some lights installed in
1920s – no real “record”
– plenty of time “driving
around finding lights”
• Operating expenditure
reduction is crucial
– 120,000 “the light isn’t
working right” calls p.a.
– Multi-visit fixes
– IOU op structure and
SmartGrid interaction
(e.g., metering the light)
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9. CMS Delivers Business Benefit and Enables New Services
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Improved billing accuracyInventory/Asset Management
Increased revenues (disconnect for non-pay and inactive
accounts)
Real time control/command
Increased customer satisfaction (turn on/off lights for events,
turtles nesting and other applications)
Scheduling
Dynamic ticketing to WMS for non-functioning lights, other
errors
Alarms & Algorithms
Streetlight health by customer (total lights, % non-functioning)
Upcoming schedule changes by customer
Reporting
Ability to open UI to end customers
Increased troubleshooting capabilities for internal operations
Dynamic User Interface
10. Example: Vero Beach Area Coverage
• Circle & yellow – strong
radio performance
• Orange & purple –
range of radio, edge
• Extends overall radio
coverage of area
• … effect?
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11. Preliminary Latency and Hopcount Benefits
Mean hop-count from 6 down to 3
AMI Meters near to streetlights
down to 1-2 hops on average
Last-gasp and outage scoping
improvements
Reduce rtt to an individual node
from 2.2 seconds to 1 seconds
Reduce retries with better RF links
Reach 95% of all network devices
in under 1 min (> 5MM devices)
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Hop Count
Current AMI Hop Count
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W/ Street Light Hop Count
14. How Does it Fit with the IoT?
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Intersection of three crucial
trends
• Moore’s Law (Semiconductors)
• Metcalfe’s Law (Networked
Device Value)
• Truly Big Data
15. Platform Vision
Incumbency
&
Scale More customer engagement and
empowerment is key to loyalty
and satisfaction
Ability to deliver city services
more efficiently an in a
coordinated way
Ownership of poles, wires, right-of-
way is a critical asset for deploying
“internet-of -things”
Experience delivering
real/physical world services is a
big advantage
Proven returns to core business
from deploying core platform
Platform facilitates low marginal
cost to add devices, apps,
services to create new revenue
streams
16. Smart Grid, LEDs, Smart City, and the IoT – FPL Has the Foundation
Time
Devices
10s of
Millions
100s of
Millions
Billions
Smart Energy
Networks
Smart City
Infrastructure
Networks
Internet-of -
Things
Open, IPV6, standards-based, secure, reliable, scalable
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