Schréder launches new IoT platform for smart lighting and smart cities - Schréder EXEDRA

Efficient public lighting management can generate important energy savings, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the impact on the environment.
Schréder EXEDRA is the most advanced lighting management system on the market for controlling, monitoring and analysing street lights in a user-friendly way. With this new platform, city managers can remotely control the performance of street lights, dim the street lights' brightness according to specific needs, generate and manage tickets, easily create reports and interact with other sensors and devices installed in public spaces.  

Schréder EXEDRA’s system architecture is:

• Open: we have taken a technology-agnostic approach, relying on open standards and protocols to design an architecture that is able to interact seamlessly with third-party software and hardware solutions.
   
• Interoperable: it offers the ability to control luminaires (and other devices), manage controllers, integrate sensors from other brands and to connect with third-party devices and platforms.
   
• Standardised: we play a key role in driving standardisation with alliances and partners such as uCIFI, TALQ or Zhaga. Our joint commitment is to provide solutions designed for vertical and horizontal IoT integration, from the body (hardware) to the language (data model) and the intelligence (algorithms).
   
• Cloud-native: with our customers’ data security needs in mind, we have selected the best cloud service solution provider in the market, Microsoft^TM Azure, relying on the highest levels of trust, transparency, standards conformance and regulatory compliance. 
   
• Simple: designed as a plug-and-play solution, it enables quick and easy deployment of a connected lighting network. Furthermore, city managers can use this powerful tool to set custom routines and automated actions, based on rules and conditions they define to simplify operations and automate repetitive tasks.
   
• Flexible and scalable: features can be independently deployable, the platform being fully configurable, including tools for user management and multi-tenant policy that enables contractors, utilities or big cities to segregate projects.
   
• Secure: it follows a multi-layered approach, where specific security measures are taken at device, communication and cloud levels. This security methodology provides continuous analysis of security risk vectors and mitigation of threat through security processes and mechanisms.