Hyderabad: Since the city receives almost 20,000 symptoms of incorrect or weak street lamps every month, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has started an urban audit to evaluate and revise its streetlight network. The step is part of a broader effort to improve the lighting quality, to ensure energy efficiency and to strengthen monitoring through advanced technology.The Civic Body plans to hire a third-year agency as part of a seven-year operating and maintenance contract to inspect existing LED road lanterns, CCMS boxes (Central Control and Monitoring System) and new installations. This agency will accidentally inspect 10 routes every day to evaluate the performance to cover the entire GHMC jurisdiction within one month.As part of the test process, the third party measures the light output (lumen) to ensure compliance with the standards. Errors are marked for the exchange. The audit will also check the condition of the buffer stock, which remains healthy and will be ready for use at any time.“With real-time dashboards and technical-based surveillance we do not recognize functional lights and condemn the luminosity in the city. We are also benchmarking practices from other metros to refine our geo-tagging and maintenance models. We also plan to transfer the streetlight maintenance to a private company, while the official efficiency of the street lights Operative efficiency of the city in the city in the city. In addition, all street lamps are geo-marked and all those endangered are immediately dismantled in order to restore the safety of the networks. The existing GIS mapping initiative of GHMC, which integrates the properties and service programs digitally logged-wing to map switching points and make it accessible via a web-based dashboard that is linked to Google Maps. The new contract also prescribes the establishment of a centralized complaint management system about fee -free figures, WhatsApp, SMS and a special website. The agency must provide real -time data for the functions of each game and grant GHMC complete access to this information both online and offline.GHMC initially teamed up with Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) in 2017 to switch to energy-efficient LED lights. The upcoming contract extends these efforts further by maintaining LED units, CCMS components, power lines, polar boxes, grounding and associated infrastructure.
GHMC revolves around faulty street lamps as complaints in abundance | Hyderabad News
