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Uploaded by on Mar 19, 2010

Think of all the electricity that's wasted by city lights that stay on when no one needs them. To solve this problem, one Barcelona neighborhood is using a system of LED lights, controlled wirelessly, to provide light exactly when, and where, it's needed. It keeps the streets safe while saving the city money. For more information, go to www.endesa.es/

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  • I love Barcelona. Fantastic, beautiful, sun dirty city.

    The best place in the world to be pick-pocketed,

  • I would think that the carbon footprint of all those electronics is way more than savings.

    wouldn't it be easier to just use led lights with a simple ambient light sensitive circuit?

    and what about safety. If an attacker immobilize a victim, then there will be no "smart" lights providing amargin of safety or detection?

    oh wait, maybe we can have a laptop on each light that does voice analysis and checks against database of voices.... aaaargh..

    over complication isn't green.

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  • they look like some that are used in Tokyo

  • What if you needed to see something down the end of the street?

  • Goddamn, if you were trying to go to sleep, this would annoy the shit out of you.

  • I love spain really i want to be there !!! Barcelonaaaa

  • Don't be fooled Barcelona is a horrible city. Looks can be very deceiving. Fantastic Air Port probably the best Ive ever been to.

  • @YoLninYo

    fully agree on lack of safety:

    will the people start entering streets with dark ends? or just merely avoid them?

    it will be heaven for robberies, stay without moving in the dark ends and then strike the victims, then again lights go off and no one will notice there is criminal and victim in the alley's end.

    Barcelona is already on the top unsafe cities, it can only get worse!

  • this is really good project. hope they do something like this in our country. but yeah, in my dreams! i'm sick of the government and politicians running it. hopeless.

  • Si la bolsa sona, Barcelona es bona~~!!

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