A replacement column and lantern in my village was commissioned this week, however the lantern is fitted with a Telensa RF node. I was expecting the lantern to dayburn - loss of signal to node - but it is switching correctly.
My village is about 3 miles/5 km from the closest other nodes in Salisbury. There is also a 100m hill between my village and those nodes. The basestation is also likely to be in the centre of the city adding potentially a couple more miles in range.
Telensa quote 5-8km coverage in rural areas.
However the lighting in my village is fitted with part night NEMA cells.The new lantern is running all night. A query to Wiltshire council to have the node reprogrammed for part night was met with this response:
Ordered and fitted incorrectly with Telensa CMS control, should have been part night cell. Firsdown too far away to communicate with Salisbury stations. Passed to contractor for rectification and fitting of PN cell.So despite working at the maximum theoretical range for the Telensa system, the node will be replaced.
It also seems to indicate that the coverage of the Telensa system won't be extended to cover our 50 or so streetlights and that we will retain our legacy part night system.