Somerville to buy streetlights from NStar, needs help finding broken ones first

[squirrelitude]

For those of you who don't subscribe to Resistat...

Somerville plans to buy the streetlights from NStar to cut down on maintenance costs (and replace the lights with LEDs). Your job is to:

1. Notice lights that are dark at night, on during the day, or flicker on and off.
2. Report them to NStar (via phone or web form).
3. Tell 311 (via Twitter, phone, or Facebook) which lights you've reported.

Contact details are on the resistat page I linked.

I hope the LED lights are more focused and shine less into my window at night...

Comments

[squirrelitude]

Thermostats have the same problem, except it's OK for them to bounce between on and off states, just not very quickly. Likewise, the streetlight's circuit would have to use hysteresis of some sort.

I like the 2-sensor solution.