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Smart Street Lighting Products Getting Ready for Global Standard – TALQ Consortium releases Beta version test tools

March 15, 2017

 

Smart Street Lighting Products Getting Ready for Global Standard

TALQ Consortium releases Beta version test tools

 

The TALQ Consortium, developers of the global standard interface for smart outdoor lighting networks, have just released the formal beta version of the entire TALQ Test Suite for its members. With this test tool companies can now start testing their smart lighting solutions for multi-vendor interoperability. The Test Suite will allow first products to be TALQ certified later this year – ensuring interoperability without the expense and delay of plug fests. Furthermore the tool enables the Consortium to work on extending the TALQ Standard to other smart city applications.

Cities and municipalities, when planning long-term investments like street lighting, always try to choose future-proof and interoperable solutions that will not constrain their future investment decisions. That is why, in 2012, the TALQ Consortium was founded to develop a global interface standard to connect and manage heterogeneous street lighting networks from many different hardware and software vendors. The TALQ Specification focuses on the so-called ‘application layer’ of the interface protocol, allowing maximum freedom for outdoor lighting manufacturers to develop optimized solutions within an interoperable framework. The TALQ Interface is built on standard internet protocols and security standards, such as XML/HTTP and Transport Layer Security, and is independent of connectivity technology.

Test Suite to ensure interoperability of Outdoor Lighting Networks

In addition to the technical specifications, a rigorous test procedure and intelligent test tool have been developed to ensure TALQ-compliant products provide the highest level of interoperability. The beta version of this complete TALQ Test Suite is now available to all TALQ member companies. For the first time lighting manufacturers have access to a tool allowing them to evaluate their own products for TALQ protocol compliance. The test tool supports the full TALQ protocol and can test both the TALQ bridge and Central Management System interfaces.

The beta version of the test tool allows real-time testing of the manufacturer’s implementation of every feature for TALQ compatibility. First tests of existing products during an earlier plug fest have proven the added benefit of functionality and reliability testing using the test suite.

“The test tool is the fruit of constructive collaboration and detailed feedback from many experienced companies of the lighting industry. We are proud to release a tool that enables the industry to develop interoperable systems and ease investment decisions for cities.” says Dr. Nick Hewish, facilitator of the TALQ Certification Working Group. A larger plug fest for TALQ member companies to test their products against each other and to approve the test tool itself will take place in Valencia, Spain, on April 4- 6, 2017.

While the TALQ Consortium finalizes the rollout of the Smart Outdoor Lighting Standard, it can now concentrate on new topics such as opening the TALQ Specification to become a standard interface for other smart city applications. In this way TALQ will continue to enable cities to have more flexibility, reduce investment risks, become future-proof and achieve greater operational savings.

 
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About TALQ Consortium

 

Founded in 2012, the TALQ Consortium is establishing a globally accepted standard for management software interfaces to control and monitor heterogeneous outdoor lighting networks. The new TALQ interface is a specification for information exchange, suitable for implementation in various products and systems. This way interoperability between Central Management Systems (CMS) and Outdoor Lighting Networks (OLN) from different vendors will be enabled, such that a single CMS can control different OLNs in different parts of a city or region. In 2016 TALQ decided to open up its scope to standardizing interfaces for wider smart city applications.

TALQ is an open industry consortium consisting of currently the following member companies:
Cisco Systems, Current – powered by GE, Harvard Engineering, Philips Lighting, Schréder, Streetlight Vision, Telensa, UVAX Concepts, Bouygues Energies et Services, CAOS Computersoftware, CAPELON, Cimcon Lighting, Citègestion, Continental Automotive, DimOnOff, Dongguan Kingsun Optoelectronics, Future Intelligence, Itslux Limited, LED Roadway Lighting, Lightronics, Lucy Zodion, Lumine Lighting Solutions, Mayflower Complete Lighting Control, ncs, Petra Systems, Silver Spring Networks, Sinapse Energia, SOGEXI, citilight.net, TRIDIUM, Unicoba Energia, Zumtobel.
For more information visit www.talq-consortium.org

Perfect Priming for Smart City Expansion: Simon Dunkley, Secretary General, TALQ Consortium

February 23, 2017

 

 

Perfect Priming for Smart City Expansion

Street Lighting Consortium elects new Secretary General

Simon Dunkley, Secretary General, TALQ Consortium

 

The TALQ Consortium, which has developed a global standard for interfaces to manage heterogeneous outdoor lighting networks, is well prepared for an important and exciting year in 2017. With the election of Simon Dunkley as new Secretary General, the TALQ Consortium is refining its certification capabilities leading to release of the first accredited street lighting products later this year. The General Assembly in Paris in February 2017 not only confirmed the new Secretary General but also endorsed the program to open the TALQ Protocol to wider IoT (internet of things) applications.

In 2012 TALQ was founded as an open industry consortium to set a globally accepted standard for uniting smart outdoor lighting. After six busy and successful years and just before the first street lighting hardware components and outdoor lighting control systems will be certified as TALQ-compliant, the organization will be led by a new Secretary General.

Simon Dunkley has many years of experience in the IT and lighting industry and is an expert for technology standards. He works for the TALQ member company Silver Spring Networks as European Regulatory Director since 2011 and is based in London, UK. Simon Dunkley is involved in regulatory and standards activities in both the lighting and radio domain including CEPT, ETSI and TALQ, and is also is a committee member of the Low Power Wireless Radio Association. He is holding a Ph.D. of the University of Cambridge.

“I’m proud of the trust of the TALQ General Assembly shown in confirming my election and am looking forward to helping to establish the TALQ Standard in the lighting business as well as adopting it for other needs.”, says Simon Dunkley, new Secretary General, TALQ Consortium. “And I would like to thank my predecessor Gerard Lokhoff again for his excellent work in building up a powerful and effective consortium. I am most impressed by the open and constructive collaboration of the member companies – who are often competitors – with the goal of easing investment decisions of cities and municipalities.”

 

 

About TALQ Consortium

 

Founded in 2012 by leading lighting industry players, the TALQ Consortium is establishing a globally accepted standard for management software interfaces to control and monitor heterogeneous outdoor lighting networks. The new TALQ interface is a specification for information exchange, suitable for implementation in various products and systems. This way interoperability between Central Management Systems (CMS) and Outdoor Lighting Networks (OLN) from different vendors will be enabled, such that a single CMS can control different OLNs in different parts of a city or region. In 2016 TALQ decided to open up its scope to standardizing interfaces for wider smart city applications.

TALQ is an open industry consortium consisting of currently the following member companies:
Cisco Systems, Current – powered by GE, Harvard Engineering, OSRAM, Philips Lighting, Schréder, Streetlight Vision, Telensa, UVAX Concepts, Bouygues Energies et Services, CAOS Computersoftware, CAPELON, Cimcon Lighting, Citègestion, Continental Automotive, DimOnOff, Dongguan Kingsun Optoelectronics, Future Intelligence, Itslux Limited, LED Roadway Lighting, Lightronics, Lucy Zodion, Lumine Lighting Solutions, Mayflower Complete Lighting Control, ncs, Petra Systems, Silver Spring Networks, Sinapse Energia, SOGEXI, citilight.net, TRIDIUM, Unicoba Energia, Zumtobel.
For more information visit www.talq-consortium.org