Light-on-Demand Street Lighting Solution at SOHAR Port & Freezone

Modern, Safe & Sustainable Seaport in Oman Thanks to Tvilight’s Smart Street Lighting Solution

Tvilight’s smart street lighting solution supports SOHAR Port & Freezone’s sustainability ambitions, road safety and efficient lighting operations. Since the initial deployment in 2020, the project has expanded, bringing additional areas into the connected lighting network managed through CityManager.

”Our vision is to create and maintain a high-class port that is healthy, safe, secure and environmentally friendly for the industries, its employees, visitors and the surrounding population and nature. Motion sensing smart street lighting solution plays a cardinal role in achieving these goals.

Sohar Port and Freezone

Customer Challenge

As a major gateway for international trade, SOHAR Port & Freezone places safety, operational efficiency and sustainability at the heart of its development. Its roads experience varying levels of nighttime traffic, creating an opportunity to align street lighting with actual use while maintaining comfortable visibility for road users.

Working with Tvilight and its partner Mustafa Sultan Enterprises, SOHAR sought a light-on-demand solution that would reduce energy consumption, support safe movement and enable centralised lighting management. As the port and freezone expanded, these capabilities also needed to extend to additional areas.

Intelligent Street Lighting at Seaport

”The Assets Management Department has explored the recent development in the field of innovative technologies. The roads within the Port and Freezone area are not frequently used during the night, resulting in energy loss from the illuminated lights overnight. This is why we have identified a solution for real-time control of street lights within the respective areas.

Khalid Al Alawi, Manager of Assets Management at SOHAR

Solution

Following the upgrade from conventional streetlights to LED lighting, SOHAR Port & Freezone introduced Tvilight’s connected lighting solution in 2020. CitySense Plus motion sensors and intelligent outdoor lighting controllers brought light-on-demand operation to the initial deployment.

The solution adapts illumination to activity, increasing light levels when movement is detected and returning to predefined dimming levels during quieter periods. This helps provide suitable visibility for road users while reducing energy consumption and unnecessary nighttime illumination.

Since then, the project has expanded to include additional areas across the port and freezone. CityManager brings the growing lighting network into one central platform, enabling the authorities to monitor connected assets, manage lighting profiles and control individual luminaires.

CityManager’s Open APIs also provide a foundation for integration with other applications as operational requirements evolve.

Growing with SOHAR

The expansion builds on SOHAR’s existing connected lighting infrastructure, extending centralised management to additional project areas. Dedicated groups and lighting profiles in CityManager help the operational team organise the network and manage lighting according to the requirements of different locations.

This phased approach demonstrates how connected lighting can grow alongside the port and freezone, supporting a consistent overview of an expanding network.

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Adaptive "Light-on-Demand" in Oman

Empowering Intelligence

With innovative street light motion sensors, smart outdoor controllers, and an intuitive light management platform from Tvilight, the port authorities are able to provide just the right illumination, at the right time, at the right place, enabling:

  • Significant improvement in public and traffic safety
  • Exceptional energy savings
  • Cut in electricity wastage
  • Reduction in carbon emissions and light pollution
  • Decline in operational and maintenance costs

Further, by employing Open APIs-based CityManager platform, the port authorities have the freedom to incorporate necessary third-party applications easily.

Motion sensor, Open APIs-based smart street lighting solution truly empowers Sohar Port and Freezone to become modern, safe and sustainable.

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About TVILIGHT

TVILIGHT is a European market leader in smart city lighting control solutions, specializing in sensors, connected lighting controls, and management software. Our open platform, powered by Open API, enables Smart City and IoT integration.
Over 1000 cities across 35+ countries benefit from TVILIGHT solutions, including major municipalities across the Netherlands and Germany, for example the citywide deployment in Dortmund. With growing deployments in Luxembourg, Hungary, Greece, the UK, Morocco, the Middle East, India, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand, TVILIGHT’s global reach extends to cities such as Seoul, Jaipur, Chattogram, Muscat, and the Red Sea. Learn more: https://tvilight.com/

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