Hyderabad: For commuter safety, reducing road accidents and also gives a aesthetic touch to the Outer Ring Road (ORR), the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has completed the 158 km LED lighting from ORR.
While in the first phase LED Light was carried out between Gachibowli to Shamshabad covering a distance of 22 km three years ago, the balance of 136km was completed now.
The city minister KT Rama Rao inaugurated LED lighting on ORR on Thursday.
LED lighting includes major carriageways, Inter change, road service and one km on both sides of the intersection and under the trajectory at a cost of 100 crores that include operation and maintenance of lights for seven years.
The work began in October 2020 and finished work now.
A total of 13,392 lights were installed on all ORR.
HMDA officials said special features ORR is provided with a GSM-based automation system consisting of web-based management for lighting operations remotely from laptops or cellular, programming and reporting systems, light intensity that controls and monitors online lamp street functions, dimming options Lights up to 10% to 100% in five stages or linear dimming to save power consumption during low traffic time.
It has a very reliable system providing warning messages for power theft, short circuit, energy leakage, more or under the voltage and power failure.
After the inauguration, KTR tweeted “likes to illuminate the whole stretch of ORR, all intersections and important parts of the service road with a total of 190 km with 6,340 poles and 13,009 LED equipment at a cost of Rs 100 Crore.”