Q: How has your company innovated its solutions to help improve energy efficiency in airports?
With our CEDD AGL technology, we have taken airfield lighting to the next level in terms of energy efficiency. CEDD—the acronym for ‘Contactless Energy and Data Distribution’—is a highly innovative connectivity technology applied to airfield ground lighting (AGL). An AGL installation based on CEDD technology consumes 40% less energy than conventional LED lighting technology, one reason being the lack of energy loss in transformers and connectors. Compared to a Halogen lighting system, the energy consumption of a CEDD AGL system is even 70% lower.
Q: What are your company's strategies and approaches as the aviation industry takes on the path to making net zero possible?
We continue the development of the CEDD AGL technology to enable new innovative applications in the airfield. An example is the implementation of Follow-the-Greens, a concept that increases the operational flows in the airfield and contributes to a reduction of CO2 and NOx emissions. With CEDD, every single airfield light in the circuit can be controlled individually without the need for additional modules, tools, or hardware to be installed.
Q: Which airport(s) in Asia do you think others should emulate when it comes to reducing carbon emissions through energy-efficient airfield lighting without compromising lighting performance and why?
CEDD AGL has already been adopted by 10 airports in Europe and the Americas. But the interest from the Asian market is strongly increasing. We have installed our first CEDD AGL system in Asia in 2022 and expect a second installation to follow shortly.