Lighting Live Annual Conference 2025 | Speaker Spotlight 'Adam Chaffey'
Adam Chaffey is the Technical Director of Smart City Lighting Products at Liveable Cities. Adam has been involved in developing industry-leading technology for street and roadway lighting applications since 2008. Adam actively participates in the ANSI C136 Committee on Roadway and Area Lighting Equipment and other technical committees.
He is also involved in the IES Street and Area Lighting Conference (SALC), the premier outdoor lighting conference in North America, where he is currently serving as SALC Executive Committee Chair. In 2019, Adam served as Conference Chair for the SALC in San Diego, which hosted over 1000 outdoor lighting professionals.
He has hosted and delivered seminars on outdoor lighting and lighting controls technology to audiences in North America, the Caribbean, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Europe. Adam is a licensed professional physicist (P.Phys). He holds an Honours B.Sc. in astrophysics from Saint Mary’s University, an M.Sc. in physics from Dalhousie University, and has been awarded two patents for LED optical systems design.
Adam's paper 'Driving Toward Adaptive Lighting' explores LED streetlights, with dimmable power supplies that have held the promise of additional energy savings while maintaining safe levels of public lighting on our roadways. Technologies exist today that can monitor changes in traffic patterns or road utilisation over the nighttime hours and enable lighting systems to respond accordingly. This is traffic-based lighting.
Sensors deployed onto streetlights on public roadways can monitor, classify, and report on vehicle volumes on a 24/7 basis. This data can be very useful to our transportation management teams, but is also very important to the lighting system- tying traffic monitoring to public lighting offers a new mechanism to understand changes in roadway utilisation, and further allows our public lighting systems to respond accordingly.
There are many different ways to make use of traffic data to modify light levels in response to changing roadway utilisation, so how do our councils and communities begin to implement strategies to take advantage of unrealised savings opportunities? How do operators support Vision Zero goals and maintain safer streets while taking advantage of technologies to reduce energy consumption?
This presentation will provide an overview of several approaches to answer these questions. Drawing on real-world case studies and lessons learned from projects in the USA, the Caribbean and others, while touching on relevant standards in the space, participants will gain an understanding of strategies and approaches that already exist to support Traffic-based lighting.
Lighting Live Annual Conference takes place 18th – 19th June 2025
Thank you to our Event Partner: Street Lighting Supplies & Co. Ltd
Thank you to our Headline Sponsors: Charles Endirect | Orange Tek | Urbis Schréder | C.U. Phosco | Signify | Lucy Zodion
