According to a new research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the installed base of smart street lights amounted to 23.0 million globally at the end of 2022.

Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.7 percent, the installed base will reach 63.8 million by the end of 2027.

Europe leads the adoption of smart street lighting technology and accounted for as much as 35 percent of the global installed base in 2022. North America is catching up with Europe and is growing robustly, accounting for around 37 percent of global shipment volumes in 2022. China was at the same time home to almost half of the installed base of smart street lights outside Europe and North America.

The world’s leading smart street lighting vendor was as of Q3-2023 Signify which with nearly 4.9 million connected street lights accounted for 18 percent of the global installed base. The company climbed to pole position after acquiring the former market leader Telensa in July 2021. Included in the top three were also US-based Itron and the Chinese Fonda Technology, of which the latter has most of its lighting controllers deployed in the domestic market. In total, the top three vendors accounted for almost a third of the global installed base of individually controlled smart street lights. Itron furthermore also constitutes a global leader in the networking segment.

Major smart street lighting players also include Quantela, Dimonoff, Ubicquia and LED Roadway Lighting from North America; Schréder from Belgium; Rongwen Energy Technology Group from China; Revetec and Umpi from Italy; Flashnet (Lucy Group) from Romania; Lucy Zodion (Lucy Group) and SSE from the UK; and ST Engineering Telematics Wireless from Singapore/Israel.

“The smart street lighting market experienced significant growth in 2022 and the first quarters of 2023, after a slowdown during 2021 following supply chain constraints and delays in the issuance of tenders for new projects in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic”, said William Ankreus, IoT analyst, Berg Insight.

Cities and municipalities have become increasingly aware of energy costs and environmental issues related to street lighting which has been a catalyst for growth in the smart street lighting market. While proprietary RF networking platforms have been the dominant connectivity type for smart street lighting deployments, the market is now clearly trending towards increased use of cellular communications in several parts of the world.

Mr. Ankreus continued:

“The simplicity and plug-and-play nature of cellular connectivity have made it an increasingly popular alternative for smart street lighting deployments and is expected to be the fastest growing connectivity technology”

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According to CITiLIGHT, the VELOCITi LMS smart lighting platform has saved 1.29 billion kWh of energy through smart street lighting implementation in more than 100 Indian cities.

Semtech Corporation, announced its collaboration with CITiLIGHT, provider of smart lighting solutions for smart cities, for its VELOCITi LMS lighting management system.

As street lights are fixed assets typically placed 40 to 50 meters apart from each other, VELOCITi LMS features Semtech’s LoRa® devices and the LoRaWAN® standard to communicate large packets of data over a long range. Per CITiLIGHT, more than 1 million street lights have been automated with the smart lighting solution that have saved up to 1.29 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of energy in more than 100 cities.

“Safety is a critical part of any city. As we move toward smarter cities, our view of citizen safety also needs to evolve. This is where city street lighting plays an important role. The spots in the city that are dark or less brightly lit are the ones that are most vulnerable to crime and accidents, and VELOCITi LMS is a solution to this issue,” said Aman Chawla, CEO of CITiLIGHT.

“Controlling street lighting is a unique challenge which entails work on both the hardware and network of the system. Semtech’s LoRa devices and LoRaWAN were the ideal solution for smart cities as the technology is able to solve both hardware and network needs due to each street light requiring to be metered, while accounting for additional data such as daylight, motion and temperature.”

The VELOCITi LMS system is able to keep street lights connected and monitored in real time, from anywhere on the globe, without any dependence on field personnel. Any commands given to the street lights, like change of lighting schedule or change in intensity, are executed within seconds as the system offers less than five second command latency and 0.5-1% accuracy on metered data according to CITiLIGHT. Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN standard complement the street light system as the technology can support larger data packets based on a city’s needs and communication over a long range.

“Real-time analytics are aiding in the growth of smart cities,” said Marc Pégulu, vice president of IoT product marketing and strategy for Semtech’s Wireless and Sensing Products Group. “Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN standard are adding intelligence and networking to street lighting that is creating better and more sustainable smart cities. This, in turn, creates a smarter planet that also improves lives of citizens globally through the reduction in energy usage.”

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Leaders in Low Power Networking and Central Management Systems Provide Ideal Solution for Smart Street Lighting.

Dhyan, the device management experts, today announced a turnkey solution partnership with Senet to manage smart streetlights powered by Senet’s LoRaWAN® network service.

Senet is a leading provider of cloud-based software and services platforms for the on-demand build-out of Internet of Things (IoT) networks and operates the largest public carrier-grade LoRaWAN network in the US. With interoperability testing completed, the turnkey nature of this solution makes it easy to add smart streetlights to existing LoRaWAN networks such as those deployed for water utility Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) projects or other municipal and enterprise applications.

LoRaWAN is a long range low power, Wide Area Network protocol designed to wirelessly connect low power devices to the internet in networks of any size, and targets key IoT requirements such as bi-directional communication, end-to-end security, mobility and localization services. Its long range and low power make it ideal for smart street lighting projects, as it provides a greater connectivity range than Zigbee or Wi-SUN without the expense of cellular.

Senet pioneered the use of LoRaWAN for commercial IoT deployments in the US, with significant success deploying high-capacity networks for municipal water utility districts across the United States. Dhyan’s central management system technology is in use in IoT deployments worldwide, including a growing number of smart street light networks. This partnership and integration bring together two leaders in hardware, software, and cloud-based network and device management to create a world-class smart street lighting solution.

The two companies are currently collaborating on commercial deployments and exploring Proof-of-Concept installations with several municipalities. Both organizations will also be attending the upcoming Smart Cities Connect conference in Columbus, Ohio, April 4-7. Senet will be participating in a workshop titled Sensorize Your City!, Monday, April 4th from 1-5pm EST.

“The technical attributes of LoRaWAN make it ideal for public lighting systems which can be a valuable anchor application for smart cities or easily added to an existing municipal LoRaWAN network deployment,” said Bruce Chatterley, CEO of Senet.

“The testing we’ve completed with the Dhyan street light controller provides municipalities with a proven solution to improve the quality of public lighting while also enabling a foundation for future efficiency and operations management through the use of additional IoT sensors.”

“Dhyan is pleased to be working with Senet as their experience with LoRaWAN dovetails nicely with Dhyan’s StreetMan smart streetlighting management system,” said Prakash Ramadass, Dhyan’s VP Smart Cities. “This is a great solution for cities looking for a low-cost, long-range smart streetlighting solution.”

The Dhyan family of central management software for the IoT market consists of StreetMan for managing smart streetlights, LightMan for managing smart area lights such as in campuses, parking lots, buildings, and warehouses, and CitiMan for managing smart city IoT assets.

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Developed by Urban Control, the Urban Node 324 is said to be plug&play simple to install and can scale cost-effectively from one streetlight up to millions.

Nordic Semiconductor today announces that leading smart city solutions provider, Urban Control, has specified a Nordic nRF9160 multi-mode NB-IoT/LTE-M System-in-Package (SiP) into each of its Urban Node 324 city streetlight LED luminaire controllers.

In operation, each Urban Node 324 simply plugs into an industry-standard ‘Zhaga’ LED lighting socket and connects over the local cellular IoT network where it can then be remotely controlled by any smart city Central Management System (CMS) that is based on the common ‘TALQ’ smart city standard.

Urban Control says its Urban Node 324 controller delivers all the benefits of smart city LED street lighting. These include the ability to precisely control brightness and thus energy consumption and costs depending on actual local conditions; the ability to dynamically respond to sudden changes in pedestrian numbers or road traffic; the ability to monitor energy consumption in real-time; and the ability to identify and even preempt faults and precisely target maintenance crews – again reducing operating costs and unnecessary maintenance via environmentally-polluting, service-van inspections.

The operational simplicity of each Urban Node 324 comes from them being engineered to work via a lightweight-machine-to-machine (LwM2M) platform called ‘ALASKA’ from award-winning scarce resource IoT device management and security specialist, IoTerop. This leverages the two most common smart city IoT standards: ‘uCIFI’ and ‘TALQ’. It additionally uses state-of-the-art embedded design engineering to minimize on-air bandwidth and get power consumption levels low enough to support battery-powered smart city sensors and devices.

Urban Control Innovation & Development Director, Miguel Lira, explains:

“Unlike traditional smart city lighting installations that require a specialized network to be built, the Urban Node 324 works straight out-of-the-box just like a smartphone.”

“This makes it commercially and technologically viable for any size installation because it does not require the operator to build their own wireless IoT network or become a wireless IoT network operator themselves. Critically, this includes robust security that combines the superb security features of the Nordic nRF9160 SiP and the IoTerop ALASKA Cloud IoT device management platform.”

Lira adds: “So suddenly all the benefits of smart lighting are now open to small clusters of streetlights in retail parks, hotel chains, office branches and university campuses, all the way up to massive, multi-million node capital city-sized installations. This is truly a game changer in the smart city streetlighting industry.”

“Early non-cellular IoT smart city lighting installations were invaluable for showing the potential and value of the smart city,” adds Olivier Carmona, Head of Sales & Marketing at IoTerop. “But they were also almost all based on proprietary technology that forced city authorities to have to build their wireless IoT networks and become expert wireless IoT network managers: neither of which they wanted to do or become.”

“In contrast, cellular IoT leverages the network infrastructure of cellular networks that are already in every town, city and significant population center worldwide. And by partnering with us, Urban Control has created a smart city lighting control solution that could not be easier for non-wireless IoT experts to install, operate and maintain. And by using the highly integrated, single device Nordic nRF9160 SiP: a solution that could not be more optimized for resource constrained wireless IoT smart city devices, sensors, and applications that extend way beyond smart streetlighting control. Examples include local air and noise pollution measurement, and camera-based traffic management.”

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NNNCo partners with technology provider Wellness TechGroup to roll out one of LoRaWAN®’s largest smart street lighting projects in the world.

Sydney-based National Narrowband Network Company (NNNCo), the 100% IoT telco, has signed a contract with technology provider Wellness TechGroup, to provide IoT network coverage to 70,000 smart streetlights in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay.

The project will cover 200 square kilometres and provide smart street lighting to more than 1.3 million people, improving community and road safety, and reducing carbon emissions by up to 80%. This initiative will also establish an infrastructure-based network that can accommodate other smart city initiatives.

NNNCo, Wellness TechGroup and their partners will replace Montevideo’s existing lighting system with LED technology and roll out a powerful and interoperable remote management system, which is designed to reduce carbon emissions by 31,500 tonnes of CO2 per year, a decrease of approximately 80%. The project will also improve the quality of public lighting service and provide greater efficiency and operations management to the whole city.

The Smart Street Lighting project will see the deployment of 70,000 new streetlights with LED technology using Wellness TechGroup’s CMS WeLight Manager software, LoRaWAN® Actis Nema 7 LPC nodes and NNNCo’s LoRaWAN® network. Smart Street lighting provides a unique opportunity to improve public and road safety, energy efficiency and customer amenity via network and application management software and the integration with other urban smart applications like waste management and water conservation.

NNNCo, Australia’s leading LoRaWAN® network operator with a carrier licence, provides a scalable IoT network service and platform to enable enterprise-grade solutions for businesses and the government. LoRaWAN®, now an international ITU standard, is a proven, scalable low-power, wide-area networking protocol technology that wirelessly connects devices to the internet and manages communication between end-node devices and network gateways.

Rob Zagarella, NNNCo CEO and Co-Founder, said:

“This is a milestone contract in the establishment of NNNCo’s LoRaWAN® network as one of the world’s leading networks for smart streetlight use cases and we hope to facilitate similar projects in Australia and in other countries in the near future.”

“This is a great example of Australian technology driving global Sustainable Development Goals”, added Mr Zagarella.

Wellness TechGroup and NNNCo will be able to provide added services to the city of Montevideo as the contract signed include the opportunity to bring third parties customers across the same gateways into the LoRaWAN network. The Australian network provider will be able to service customers across the whole city, using the NNNCo N2N-DL data aggregation layer and the NNNCo N-Tick device interoperability programme.

Wellness TechGroup will roll out 70,000 Actis Plus Nema 7 LCP nodes for remote control of light points. The Actis Plus Nema 7 nodes will connect with WeLight Manager TALQ certified CMS, powerful and leading-edge software that will provide real-time information on all the data from the intelligent public lighting service. Luminaries become effectively a data-enabled lighting server, true central nodes and form part of a smart city IoT ecosystem, beyond lighting.

David Garcia, Wellness TechGroup CEO, said:
“We have deployed more than 300 smart lighting projects worldwide, where we are already managing almost 1 million points of lights in municipalities remotely”.

“Our technology must help reduce the costs, improve the efficiency and environmental impact and provide a better service, but it must also serve citizens by improving their day-to-day. Montevideo will now have a more versatile lighting system, capable of responding to events and unforeseen events, facilitating a feeling of more security on the streets”.

Montevideo’s new public lighting system will be one of the largest smart street lighting projects over LoRaWAN to date. LoRaWAN technology was selected to ensure a low total cost of ownership, advanced technical attributes, high security, flexible network deployment models, optimisation of battery life and the ability to access a fast-growing ecosystem of other solutions.

“I congratulate NNNCo on this massive LoRaWAN deployment, which exemplifies how 2021 has truly been the year of scale for the LoRaWAN standard,” said Donna Moore, CEO and Chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance®. “This project demonstrates the strong value of LoRaWAN, first in its flexible deployment for street lighting, and second, as a means to positively impact the environment, people’s lives and business efficiency. I look forward to following the progress of this project and seeing the positive impact that NNNco and LoRaWAN bring to Montevideo.”

NNNCo and Wellness Techgroup are investee companies of Enzen, a global knowledge practice that provides consulting, technologies, governments, non-governmental organisations and not-for-profits. This contract shows the synergies of both companies in the areas of IoT, smart cities and sustainability.

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The Companies Completed Six Projects in 2021, including the Largest in India.

On the heels of launching its newest LoRaWAN® gateway, Kerlink, a specialist in solutions dedicated to the IoT, partnered with CITiLIGHT, the leading smart-lighting solution provider in India, to collaborate and deploy large smart street-lighting projects in India and internationally.

CITiLIGHT, whose systems manage more than 1 million streetlights in India, completed six projects using Kerlink IoT gateways in 2021, including the largest smart-lighting installation in the country. That project serves a population of 1.2 million people and is located in Thane district of Maharashtra. It covers an area of 67 km2 and includes 35,000 lights, of which 18,000 operate with LoRaWAN® technology.

CITiLIGHT, an OEM partner to leading Indian and global lighting companies, has completed smart-lighting projects in 112 municipalities and five smart cities and several other districts in India. Its solutions automatically manage streetlights, road lights and highway lights via VELOCITi LMS (Lighting Management System), the company’s web and smartphone-compatible application. It controls light-change schedules, detects faults, and notifies system owners about their streetlight networks on a real-time basis.

CITiLIGHT’s LoRaWAN® smart-lighting projects are powered by Kerlink’s Wirnet iStations, a long-range and low-power gateway that comes with exclusive features for remote monitoring and advanced radio network configuration. These gateways specifically meet the standard requirements of municipalities and other users that want to adopt the efficiency benefits of the IoT in customized, reliable networks that can connect high volumes of end devices and manage millions of bidirectional messages every day. More than 100 of these gateways have been installed in India’s smart-lighting systems.

CITiLIGHT estimates that streetlighting consumes as much as 40 per cent of the power used by municipal infrastructure, and in many cases implementing smart systems can deliver a return on investment (ROI) within three years, along with increasing the overall safety of citizens by reducing the number of accidents on the streets.

According to industry reports, the installed base of smart street lighting is increasing at a CAGR of 24.8 percent globally. The 16.2 million smart streetlights operating in 2020 are estimated to increase to 48.8 million by 2025. CITiLIGHT, with its experience of automating a million-plus streetlights in India, expects to play a vital role in this growth on a global stage.

Girish Dadheech, vice president of Kerlink India, said:

“Kerlink and CITiLIGHT plan to grow in India and internationally by designing and deploying smart street lighting projects in Europe and the U.S., where we can expect much higher adoption rates for these technologically advanced smart-lighting solutions.”

“CITiLIGHT’s growth strategy is to develop cutting-edge, intelligent streetlight and IoT solutions that impact lives, which is in line with its mission to impact a billion lives globally by 2025,” said Aman Chawla, CITiLIGHT’s founder. “Both of our companies are leaders in their respective domains and with this collaboration we aim to set benchmarks for deployments and accelerate the pace at which the smart-city lighting projects are executed here and abroad.”

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The ALASKA Lightweight Machine to Machine (LwM2M) platform works with uCIFI and TALQ standards to enable smart city solutions that are interoperable, scalable and secure.

Urban Control, a leading provider of smart city solutions, has embedded ALASKA, a Lightweight Machine to Machine (LwM2M) platform from IoTerop, a leader in IoT device management, to manage its smart city devices.

The first implementation of this platform is the Urban Node 324 cellular IoT streetlight controller, launched earlier this month.

LwM2M, uCIFI and TALQ – the importance of standards

Using LwM2M enables Smart Cities to leverage uCIFI, the first unified data model that was created to address IoT interoperability for smart city applications. Additionally, the TALQ Consortium has defined a globally accepted interface standard for smart city device networks, meaning that a single CMS can configure, control, command and monitor heterogeneous smart city device networks. These three standards create a powerful tool that allows Smart Cities to be truly interoperable and scalable.

Constrained devices can more easily be connected, and the optimization of bandwidth makes it more efficient and less expensive to connect. Devices modeled include streetlights, water meters and distribution monitors, waste management devices, parking meters, traffic monitors, air-quality monitors, smart buildings, as well as safety and security devices.

Adherence to globally-recognized standards is imperative, as it allows for the optimization of bandwidth constraints and provides a reduction of data volume used by urban smart objects. Device security is also a considerable benefit in an era when cyber security has never been so important. ALASKA follows devices throughout their entire lifecycles, from activation to firmware updates to decommissioning, all managed remotely.

Miguel Lira, Innovation and Development Director at Urban Control, said:
“Selecting a LwM2M interface that adheres to global standards was important for us, as it offers our customers game-changing benefits that are important for this specific sector.”

“By selecting IoTerop’s ALASKA, we are empowering our customers to diminish bandwidth usage, decrease their operational uptime by automating operations, and ultimately, rationalize their long-term investment in urban connected solutions.”

“We understand that security, scalability, and interoperability are crucial aspects for any smart city’s long-term success. By using our ALASKA LwM2M interface, cities will be able to see a much quicker return on investment without the need to deploy a heavy infrastructure. ALASKA will address battery-powered solutions and devices in the most difficult-to-reach places, which are normally costly and logistically challenging to address,” adds Hatem Oueslati, CEO of IoTerop.

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According to a new research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the installed base of smart street lights amounted to 16.2 million globally at the end of 2020.

Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.8 percent, the installed base will reach 48.8 million by the end of 2025. Europe leads the adoption of smart street lighting technology and accounted for as much as 35 percent of the global installed base in 2020. North America continues to lag behind Europe but is nevertheless growing robustly, accounting for around 24 percent of global shipment volumes in 2020. China was at the same time home to more than half of the installed base of smart street lights outside Europe and North America, while the Rest of World region excluding China constitutes the fastest growing market.

The world’s leading smart street lighting vendor was at the end of 2020 UK-based Telensa which with nearly 2.1 million connected street lights accounted for 12.8 percent of the global installed base. Included in the top three were also Dutch Signify and US-based Sensus, of which the latter primarily serves the market through its SELC brand. In total, the top three vendors accounted for nearly a third of the global installed base of individually controlled smart street lights. Major smart street lighting players also include CIMCON Lighting, Dimonoff, Acuity Brands, LED Roadway Lighting, Current and Ubicquia from North America; Lucy Zodion and SSE from the UK; Rongwen Energy Technology Group from China; Revetec from Italy; Schréder from Belgium; Flashnet from Romania; and ST Engineering Telematics Wireless from Israel/Singapore. US-based Itron furthermore constitutes a global leader in the networking and CMS segments.

Levi Ostling, smart cities analyst, Berg Insight, said:

“The smart street lighting market continued to experience healthy growth throughout 2020 despite the Covid-19 pandemic, though the market might see a slight hick-up in its growth tempo during 2021 following some temporary delays in the issuance of tenders for new projects in the midst of the crisis.”

A number of new growth opportunities is at the same time emerging in the market. Procurements for large-scale deployments in the South American market have for example in the past two years really started to pick up pace while activity is also growing in the potentially huge Indian market.

“We have now also reached the point in time where the first large-scale replacements of early smart street lighting technology installations start to appear”, continued Mr. Ostling.

In June, Telensa became the first vendor to announce a major replacement project and a growing number of similar projects are expected to follow in early adopter markets such as the UK in the next years.

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Berg Insight, the world’s leading IoT market research provider, today released the latest edition of its comprehensive smart city technology report comprising in-depth studies of five key technology areas – smart street lighting, smart parking, smart waste collection, urban air quality monitoring and smart city surveillance.

In 2020, the global installed base of individually controlled smart street lights amounted to 13.0 million units (excluding China). The corresponding figures for the smart parking and smart waste sensor technology markets were at the same time 957,000 and 657,000 units respectively.

Smart parking sensors refers to in-ground or surface-mounted parking occupancy detection sensors while smart waste sensor technology consists of fill-level sensor devices that may either be pre-integrated into bins and containers, for example as a smart bin offering, or retrofitted on existing collection points.

The smart street lighting market has now gained significant traction and its installed base will grow at a robust CAGR of 23.4 percent to reach 37.4 million units in 2025.

The number of installed smart parking sensors is expected to see a slightly slower growth of 21.6 percent (CAGR) while the smart waste sensor technology market will be the fastest growing of the three with a CAGR of 29.8 percent.

A more nascent smart city technology area is the field of non-regulatory urban air quality monitoring, which comprises increasingly small and low-cost air quality monitoring devices that can serve as valuable complements to traditional regulatory monitoring stations. In 2020, the number of such non-regulatory air quality monitoring devices installed in outdoor urban environments amounted to 73,000 units globally and will surpass 300,000 units in 2025.

The largest of the five covered smart city application areas was meanwhile the smart city surveillance market, which reached a global market value of € 9.9 billion in 2020. The market, which includes both fixed and mobile video and audio surveillance solutions, is expected to grow at a CAGR of 19.7 percent throughout the forecast period.

Levi Ostling, smart city analyst, Berg Insight, said:

“Looking just at the sheer volume of various types of smart city device shipments, China has in the past few years outrun most other countries in the world and now plays in a league of its own.”

Outside China, Europe has emerged as the leading smart city technology adopter and North America constitutes the second largest market. An exception is however the North American market for smart city surveillance, which was about 27 percent larger than the European in 2020.

“While publicly funded deployments of smart city technologies in many cases were delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, they were more importantly not cancelled thanks to their growing status as key infrastructure projects,” continued Mr. Ostling when asked about the Covid-19 impact on the overall market.

The pandemic has in many ways highlighted the benefits of remotely managed infrastructure and the need for smart city technologies, which should help the smart city market to recuperate strongly after a short period of slightly reduced growth.

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Liveable Cities’ smart city solutions empower municipalities to enable safer and more efficient communities using existing street lighting infrastructure.

Sierra Wireless today announced that Liveable Cities, a division of Canada-based LED Roadway Lighting, has selected Sierra Wireless’ LPWA solution to enable smart city applications.

Liveable Cities is using Sierra Wireless Ready-to-Connect HL78 modules for its SilQ Luminaire streetlight and the tool-less Sensor Platform (TSC) ANSI Controller, which can add radar, pollution and noise sensors to transform any streetlight into a network that provides data to cities to help them reduce pollution and keep citizens safe.

The Sierra Wireless LPWA solution connects sensors integrated in the Luminaire streetlight or TSP platform and securely transmits speed, pollution and noise data over cellular networks to Liveable Cities’ SMARTLINX cloud platform for analysis. City planners can use the data to understand speed, pollution and acoustic patterns across the city, evaluate effectiveness of reduction measures over time and make informed decisions about where to deploy additional resources.

Ken Cartmill, Vice President of Product Development, LED Roadway Lighting, said:
“Municipalities are asking for solutions that will help them make evidence-based decisions and measure the outcomes of their initiatives in real time. Using cellular was the best approach, and Sierra Wireless’ LPWA solution allowed us to get to market two to three months faster by streamlining our development and deployment process. Our customers can securely connect the TSP-Radar platform anywhere in the world.”

The ubiquity of streetlights allows municipalities to deploy sensors anywhere in the community for lighting scheduling, asset management, energy reporting, traffic analytics and more. The tool-less TSP platform can be installed into virtually any streetlight in 15 seconds. “Now that we can help cities understand traffic patterns and management strategies, a logical next step is to help them understand the impacts of congestion on air quality and other factors,” added Cartmill.

Ross Gray, VP, Product Management, Sierra Wireless said:

“Liveable Cities is making smart city applications practical and accessible by allowing communities to leverage their existing streetlighting infrastructure. Sierra Wireless’ LPWA solution provides the secure, reliable device-to-cloud connectivity needed for cost-effective smart city solutions.”

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The Sierra Wireless Ready-to-Connect HL78 embedded module is the industry’s smallest multimode LPWA module, offering best-in-class power performance for global LTE-M, NB-IoT and GNSS networks. The integrated operator-agnostic smart SIM simplifies global deployment, and all SIM subscriptions and devices can be managed using the AirVantage® IoT Platform.

Ready-to-Connect modules provide the industry’s lowest TCO for OEMs and system integrators. By reducing IoT management costs and eliminating SIM logistics and truck rolls to resolve connectivity issues, Ready-to-Connect bundles reduce TCO by up to 40 percent*, compared to other available embedded modules. Customers can work with one vendor for their IoT infrastructure and avoid the complex pairing of multiple components that can lead to security vulnerabilities.

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According to a new research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the installed base of smart street lights was 10.4 million worldwide at the end of 2018.

Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.5 percent, the installed base will reach 31.2 million in 2023.

Europe is the leading smart street lighting market accounting for nearly 40 percent of the installed base. Characterised by a higher degree of utility ownership of street lighting assets, the North American market has seen a more scattered uptake of smart street lighting but is nevertheless home to several of the world’s largest deployments. North America accounted for around 30 percent of the global installed base in 2018. The Rest of World accounted for 31 percent of the global installed base in 2018 and the Chinese market constitutes a large part of these installations.

The world’s leading smart street lighting vendor is UK-based Telensa which accounted for 14.4 percent of the global installed base of connected endpoints in Q3-2019. Included in the top three are also Signify and Sensus, of which the latter became a top player within the market in 2017 through its acquisition of the major smart street lighting vendor SELC. Together, these three vendors account for a third of the global installed base of individually controlled smart street lights. US-based Itron is also a leading player in the networking segment, having acquired Silver Spring Networks in 2018. Other important smart street lighting vendors include Rongwen Energy Technology Group from China; CIMCON Lighting, Acuity Brands, Current, LED Roadway Lighting and DimOnOff from North America; Lucy Zodion and SSE from the UK; Reverberi Enetec from Italy; Flashnet from Romania and Telematics Wireless from Israel.

Levi Ostling, IoT Analyst, Berg Insight, said:

“While various proprietary RF mesh or star networks today account for the majority of smart street lighting installations, the adoption of LPWA technologies such as NB-IoT and LoRa is now growing fast, particularly in the European and Asian markets.”

He added that in line with this development, the smart street lighting market is currently undergoing significant transformation and is now entering a new era of competition where the success of vendors will be determined by their ability to establish themselves as competitive providers of communications and management platforms for smart city devices.

“Finding new ways to monetise data from a variety of smart city sensors and devices will be essential for smart street lighting vendors in the next couple of years to avoid becoming mere vendors of commoditised hardware”, concluded Mr. Ostling.

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Future-proof solution connects 3rd party sensors over multiple wireless networks to dashboard and analytics built on Microsoft Power BI.

Telensa today announced the launch of Urban IQ. A future-proof, open solution designed to connect sensors using smart streetlight infrastructure and visualise the data collected.

Telensa is the world leader in smart street lighting, and Urban IQ is a natural addition. The evolution of smart city sensing is at an early stage, and cities cannot predict the mix of sensors and networks needed to support future projects. Urban IQ uses the light poles’ perfect position to host multiple sensors, connected using the best-fit lighting and cellular networks. Telensa has created Urban IQ to enable cities to deploy sensors today and to support any future smart city strategy.

Flexibility is achieved through the three main elements of the solution:

• Sensor Hub – a multi-purpose device that provides power and connectivity for multiple sensors on any light pole or arm. It enables sensors to be mounted anywhere on the light pole and requires no adaptation to the luminaire itself, preserving its long-term reliability. Sensor Hub also provides local wireless connectivity for sensors near the pole such as those in waste bins or drains. It also connects sensors to the cloud through a combination of the dedicated lighting network and cellular options, such as NB-IoT.

• Dashboard – built on Microsoft Power BI, the industry-leading solution supported by systems integrators across the world. This provides the modular flexibility to customise and integrate sensor data into other systems, providing real-time insights from sensor data across the city.

• Sensors from 3rd party vendors – Telensa has worked with a group of leading sensor solution providers to prove the Urban IQ solution. The solution is designed to work with any mix of sensors that cities may prefer to use over time.

Sensor types already deployed include air quality, environmental, waste, drainage, road quality and gunshot detection. Products have been running in pilots for the past 12 months in the US and UK and are now commercially available.

Leading partners who have already connected devices through Urban IQ include CA Traffic, Vaisala, Aeroqual, Libelium, Farsite Communications, Intouch, Gill, and Eagl.

Will Gibson, Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Telensa, said:

“We have been working with cities for over a decade to make their streetlights smart, and with the introduction of Urban IQ we are providing a cost effective way to use their smart lighting infrastructure to add multiple smart city sensors. We are excited to be working with cities to provide the flexibility needed to achieve their smart city ambitions.”

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A little over a century ago we had lamplighters. Today our street lighting uses electrical grids and timers. Tomorrow, thanks to Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) public lighting will likely be more akin to Lighting-as-a Service (LaaS) leveraging networks, sensors and predictive analytics to provide cars and pedestrians with lighting on a personalized, as-needed basis with the maintenance done much faster at a reduced cost.

According to a new report from ABI Research, “the annual revenue from smart street lighting will grow by 31% between 2018 and 2026 to reach $1.7 billion in annual revenue by 2026”. Migrating street lighting under the umbrella of digital control opens up a new horizon of automation and predictive monitoring.

Smart Streetlighting: The Low-Hanging Fruit of Smart City Initiatives

Thanks to embedded sensors and digital networks, street lighting is becoming the bedrock of smart city initiatives. They now have the power to collect and transmit information that helps cities to monitor, maintain and adjust its infrastructure to their constituents in real-time.

Managing more than 3 million streetlights around the world, Itron has been recognized as a leader by the Navigant Research Leaderboard on Smart Street Lighting. Not only does the smart city platform vendor provide end-to-end streetlight solutions, but it also collaborates with cities and utilities to offer solutions from intelligent transportation and parking management to public safety and air quality.

In this array of challenges, Travis Shanahan, IoT architect with Itron Idea Labs believes:
“Standards like LightweightM2M (LwM2M) can allow us to more quickly bring mature IIoT offerings to market and enable feature-rich, multi-service, multi-vendor ecosystems.”

Future-Proofing Street Lighting Solutions

Members of the Open Mobile Alliance SpecWorks, Itron, and IoTerop both agree standards are necessary to support open, sustainable, smart-city programs.

Hatem Oueslati, CEO and co-founder of IoTerop, says:

“By adopting consistent standards, such as LwM2M, smart city solution providers ensure product compatibility, shorten time-to-market, reduce management overhead, improve security by using encryption and authentication features, while perhaps most importantly future-proof solutions so that technology’s needs never slow innovation.”

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Pennsylvania capital piloting traffic analytics, air quality monitoring and smart waste sensor systems using Telensa’s connected street lighting system.

Telensa, a world leader in smart street lighting and smart city data applications, today announced that it is working with the City of Harrisburg to trial smart city technologies featuring smart sensors for traffic, air quality and waste monitoring.

The City deployed a Telensa smart street lighting system in 2016 and saw the potential to use this physical and network infrastructure to roll out additional smart technologies.

The Smart City project is now deployed and Telensa partner sensors, including CA Traffic for traffic analytics, Libelium for air quality and FarSite for waste monitoring, have been installed. The data from these sensors is analysed and combined with existing lighting data and displayed in a smart city dashboard. This provides custom visualisation of multiple sensors, showing correlations across departments and driving insights for smarter, more efficient and joined up services. Harrisburg is also set to test the use of technology for Traffic Adaptive Lighting, whereby groups of streetlights can be dynamically adjusted in the central management system using real-time, raw traffic data received from a radar-based sensor. This adaptive lighting results in energy savings of up to 30%.

Harrisburg has previously worked with Telensa to deploy over 4,000 connected streetlights spanning the whole city, leading to utility bill reductions of 60-70%. The city realised the additional value of their lighting infrastructure as a platform for smart city sensors, providing a power source and secure cloud connection, and located in citizen-dense areas yet positioned safely out of reach.

Telensa PLANet is an end-to-end intelligent street lighting system, consisting of wireless nodes connecting individual lights, a dedicated network owned by the city and a central management application. The systems pays for itself in reduced energy and maintenance costs, improves quality of service through automatic fault reporting and turns streetlight poles into hubs for smart city sensors. With more than 1.7 million lights connected, Telensa PLANet is the world’s most popular connected streetlight system.

“We’re thrilled to be collaborating again and deepening our relationship with the City of Harrisburg to utilise the connected streetlight infrastructure by adding smart city applications that bring more value to the city,” said Will Gibson, Founder and Chief Commercial Officer at Telensa. “We are excited to showcase the potential of this technology and the benefits it can bring to the citizens of Harrisburg and those of other cities around the world.”

Wayne S. Martin Esq., Harrisburg’s City Engineer, said:

“We live in a data-driven world, but we’re not going to monitor stuff just to monitor it – it has to make sense to the city! That’s why we have chosen these smart city applications to open up endless possibilities for us to improve city efficiency and save money – the dollars can really add up.”

“Use of smart technology to collect data could have profound benefits for the City,” said Mayor Eric Papenfuse. “I look forward to seeing the results of this important test of smart sensors using the lighting network, and hope we can see significant savings and benefits.”

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Annual revenue from smart street lighting will grow at CAGR 31% to reach US$1.7 billion in 2026.

Street lighting programs today, and over the next several years, will focus on replacing conventional lamps with LED lamps. However, only 20 percent of LED street lamps will be truly “smart” through integration with lighting controls systems.

This imbalance will slowly correct itself and by 2026, central management systems will connect to over two-thirds of all new LED street light installations.

“Smart street lighting vendors such as Telensa, Telematics Wireless, DimOnOff, Itron, and Signify have been the most successful in benefiting from their cost-optimized products, market expertise, and aggressive commercial approach,” said Adarsh Krishnan Principal Analyst at ABI Research.

“And, there are additional opportunities to be had by smart city suppliers leveraging street pole infrastructure by hosting of wireless connectivity infrastructure, environmental sensors, and even intelligent cameras. The challenge is finding a feasible business model that encourages deployment of multi-sensor solutions cost-effectively at scale.”

Smart street lighting applications that have seen the most adoption are (in order of priority): remote scheduling of dimming profiles based on seasonal changes, time shifts, or special social events; metering individual street light energy consumption for accurate usage-based billing; asset management to improve maintenance planning; and finally, sensor-based adaptive lighting.

Regionally, street lighting deployments are unique in a vendor and technology approach, as well as end-market requirements. In 2018, North America has been a leader in smart street lighting accounting for 31 percent of the global install base, followed by Europe and the Asia Pacific. In Europe, non-cellular LPWA network technologies have a dominant share of smart streetlights today but will cede some market share to cellular LPWA network technologies, especially as NB-IoT based end-devices become more commercially available in Q2 2020.

By 2026, the Asia Pacific region will have the largest installed base of smart streetlights, accounting for over one-third of global installations. This growth is due to China and India, both which not only have ambitious LED street lamp retrofit programs but also are building local LED component manufacturing facilities to lower lamp costs.

“In India and China, LED streetlights have seen a very low penetration of lighting control systems due to a nascent domestic solution vendor ecosystem and international vendors that are unable to adapt their solution to meet local market requirements for innovative yet low-cost products,” concluded Krishnan.

Low-cost solutions based on cellular LPWA network technologies followed by non-cellular LPWA network technologies will witness the most growth in the APAC region, accounting for a market share of 48 percent and 36 percent respectively of the total install base in 2026.

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Transport Canberra and City Services to Utilize Itron Network to Enable Smart Energy and City Services in Canberra, Australia’s Capital City.

Itron, Inc., VINCI Energies’ Electrix and Transport Canberra and City Services (TCCS) are working together to create an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) network to support smart lighting and smart city and energy solutions in Canberra, Australia’s capital city.

TCCS, which manages streetlights and other critical infrastructure in Canberra, will deploy Itron’s multi-purpose network across the region, connecting streetlights on the network that will be managed by Itron’s Streetlight.Vision central management software. This project represents the largest standalone smart lighting project in Australia and the first energy performance contract in Australia and Oceania.

With the Energy Performance Contract, Electrix, leading provider of electrical engineering, construction and maintenance services, will operate, maintain and upgrade the streetlight network over a seven-year period. This innovative model will help TCCS achieve significant energy savings, accelerate progress toward environmental goals, minimize investment risk and help manage to fixed annual allocated budgets over the contract term.

Initial benefits of the network will include increased electrical safety and energy savings from energy efficient fittings, which can be tracked with metering on the lights. Long term, the Canberra community will benefit from a Smart City Lab, which will be developed to test and develop additional smart city solutions such as, smart waste management, traffic monitoring, pollution sensing and other applications using the same network platform. A new digital control maintenance management system will also be delivered as part of the upgrade to offer real-time monitoring of the network to automatically detect faults such as lamp failures or cable problems.

This will be the start of a seven-year collaboration that will focus on three key outcomes: keeping the lights on, getting energy efficient and contributing to Canberra being a smart city.

Paul Nelsen, vice president of commercial and customer enablement for the Asia-Pacific region, said:

“Itron’s open standards-based, globally proven smart city network is the ideal platform to help councils and governments like TCCS to realize its vision to transform critical city services for consumers.”

“We are excited to work with TCCS and Electrix on this innovative project, which showcases the power of collaboration and creativity. Together, we will develop a strategic, scalable process for rolling out smart city applications under a single, unified network.”

“Electrix has extensive local expertise in maintenance of electrical infrastructure, particularly street lighting. We are excited to apply our experience in collaboration with TCCS and Itron on this unique project,” said Tony Croagh general manager, Electrix.

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Ahoy Systems smart street light solutions offer ultra-low power capabilities to save cities on utility costs.

Semtech Corporation, announced that Ahoy Systems, an electronic design house and OEM for several smart city devices, incorporated Semtech’s LoRa® devices and technology into its smart street-lighting products.

Neel Maharaj, CEO at Ahoy Systems, said:

“Our smart street lights are built to ensure city efficiency and sustainability, without compromising the safety of streets for pedestrians and drivers. Smart cities leverage our smart lights to reduce their energy footprint and cut down on maintenance costs.”

“Semtech’s LoRa Technology provides the ideal IoT platform for cities to drastically reduce their electricity costs without compromising infrastructure quality and community services.”

Ahoy Systems provides smart street lighting solutions for municipalities, network operators, LED companies, residential managers, and parking lots. The LoRa-enabled street lights offer “ultra-low” electricity consumption that pays for itself in less than four years, important as electricity consumption by street lights constitutes a huge portion of an average city’s budget.

Ahoy Systems smart street lighting solution is easily incorporated into preexisting LED streetlamp infrastructure, offering a low deployment cost. The smart streetlamps automatically dim according to programmable schedules, detect moonlight and dim accordingly, and can send automated messages to managers upon malfunction detection.

“With Semtech’s LoRa Technology and smart city IoT networking, Ahoy Systems can offer street light solutions that increase energy efficiency and reduce city operating costs. LoRa solutions are easy to implement into existing infrastructure and allow smart monitoring of the grid over a LoRaWAN network,” said Vivek Mohan, Director of IoT, Wireless and Sensing Products Group at Semtech.

“With hundreds of global cities adopting LoRa Technology for smart city solutions, it’s clear the technology is the ideal IoT platform for smart cities to create a smarter planet while enhancing community services.”

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Today Teleena, a global IoT and MVNO enabler, and Tvilight, European market leader in professional end-to-end street lighting control solutions, announced that the companies are expanding their current partnership into the international realm, with Teleena becoming a preferred global connectivity supplier for Tvilight’s international Smart City projects.

Teleena’s SIM-cards are currently the standard connectivity element offered in all Tvilight intelligent lighting networks.

Tvilight will rely on ‘IoT Connect’, a module in Teleena’s IoT Suite, in its overseas operations, enabling international hardware vendors to reap the benefits of wireless connectivity, outdoor wireless networks, and remote device management. The partnership will allow Tvilight to lower its operational costs and improve its go-to-market strategy. In addition, Tvilight will explore the service billing possibilities of Teleena’s ‘IoT Bill’ module to offer its partners and customers optimal billing services.

Teleena’s IoT Suite consists of four modules and is a complete end-to-end service for the IoT ecosystem. The IoT Suite offers Teleena’s business customers a range of connectivity options such as 2G/3G/4G, low power LoRa and Sigfox, as well as connectivity management (‘IoT Connect’), device management (‘IoT Insight’), integration workflow management (‘IoT Grail’), and service billing (‘IoT Bill’).

This partnership will allow Tvilight to immediately enter the market with all the functionalities of Teleena’s IoT Suite enabling it to build transformational IoT Smart City solutions and monetize new business models.

Teleena’s founder and Executive Director Timo Smit stated:
“We believe that the integration of our IoT Suite with Tvilight’s intelligent lighting solution will have a big impact on Smart City developments around the globe. The future starts now and looks bright to us.”

Frans Heijmans, Chief Operations Officer at Tvilight, commented:

“The decision to choose ‘IoT Connect’ for our international projects and make Teleena a global connectivity supplier is a logical continuation of our long-standing partnership. By tapping into the functionality of Teleena’s IoT Suite, we are able to offer our partners and clients improved services and support globally.”

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New Cognitive, Adaptive Streetlighting Becomes Platform for Smart Cities to Integrate IoT Applications.

Internet of Things (IoT) pioneer Echelon Corporation today announced its collaboration with IBM Watson IoT to bring cognitive intelligence to its adaptive streetlight control platform, helping municipalities transform into smarter, safer and more sustainable cities.

Echelon will infuse Watson IoT capabilities into its next-generation, adaptive LED lighting control solution to form a pervasive, more intelligent infrastructure that can easily integrate IoT applications to address municipal safety, environment and energy challenges.

IBM Watson IoT is a cognitive system that learns from and infuses intelligence into the physical world. By combining IBM Watson IoT data with Echelon’s IoT connected streetlighting architecture, municipal leaders can gain significant insights which they can use to improve public safety. IBM Watson IoT capabilities closely align with Echelon’s promise to municipalities – to enable them to more cost-effectively leverage innovations in technology that drive safety and sustainability initiatives.

Sohrab Modi, Chief Technology Officer, Echelon, said:

“With a mission to continually advance our adaptive streetlighting solution, we are excited at the prospect of integrating the cognitive and real-time analytics capability of IBM Watson IoT into Echelon’s platform to enhance its inherent intelligence.”

“If mayors and town selectmen can have infrastructures that adapt to the data produced by billions of interconnected sensors and devices, they can positively impact crime and weather-related accident statistics. The omniscience that IBM Watson IoT will bring to our next-generation technology will be a huge asset for local and state governments.”

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Silver Spring’s Starfish Network-as-a-Service deployments to provide foundation to support innovative, cutting-edge solutions to help achieve greater resource efficiencies in leading cities.

Ameresco, Inc., a leading energy efficiency and renewable energy company, announced today that it has executed a non-exclusive master reseller agreement with Silver Spring Networks, a leading networking platform and solutions provider for the Internet of Important Things™.

The collaboration affords an innovative approach to assist cities and other public lighting operators to deliver smart street lighting programs and to establish a foundation for future Internet of Things (IoT) applications and services such as smart water, traffic signals, and distributed energy resources.

“This is a natural evolution of Ameresco’s successful track record in implementing energy saving LED street lighting conversion projects,” said Louis Maltezos, Executive Vice President, Ameresco. “In addition, it enables us to extend our traditional project implementation role into an ongoing service/support role while more seamlessly offering a broader array of energy management and smart city value-added services and capabilities to our customers.”

This agreement allows Ameresco to offer Silver Networks’ IPv6 Starfish™ platform and SLV6 city management platform service models to Ameresco’s customers as part of its smart city and municipal street lighting solution offerings. Ameresco believes Silver Spring’s solution will be a valuable tool as Ameresco continues to enhance and execute its LED and Smart City strategy.

Brandon Davito, Vice President, Smart Cities and Street Lighting, Silver Spring Networks, said:

“We look forward to working with Ameresco to help utilities and cities build smart lighting systems and to support their broader smart cities goals.”

“Ameresco offers outstanding value at a lower capital expenditure, reducing the capital and operational barriers that have constrained the market.”

The innovative network-as-a-service model allows municipalities and utilities to cost-effectively deploy a multi-application network and data platform without having to build and manage the network themselves, helping to reduce their capital outlay and the need for IT expertise. The economics and benefits of the smart street light network approach helps cities and utilities manage their resources prudently, and achieve sustainability-driven initiatives and goals throughout their communities.

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OPPLE LIGHTING, China’s leading lighting brand, has lately signed up Smart Home Strategic Cooperation Agreement with Huawei, the global leader of telecommunication equipment suppliers and smart phone manufacturers.

By establishing smart home system with cutting-edge technologies, the agreement opened up a new chapter of cross-boundary cooperation at strategic level for both sides. Mr. Wang Yaohai, Opple board director, Ms. Ma Xiuhui, Opple president and Mr. Shao Yang, CSO of Huawei Consumer Business Group were present to witness the important moment that would shape the future.

As the leading lighting brand in China, Opple has been sparing no effort providing consumers with quality and healthy lighting experience; while Huawei, as a global leading telecommunication brand, is strong in “connectivity.” With the concerted efforts and the leading technologies of respective areas from the two giants, interconnection and intercommunication shall be realized in the true sense; and there would be breakthroughs in improving the compatibility of communication protocols and the convenience of operation, which has long been the bottleneck for smart home development.

Opple will release a whole new range of smart lighting products integrated with Hilink protocol to meet the different lighting challenges and control requirements in applications like living room, bedroom and study, which also allows interactions with other recreational devices to create healthy, comfortable and romantic atmosphere at home. In future, it is even possible to realize light switch and remote dimming control by voice command or gesture via Huawei mobile terminals such as smart phones, so that consumers can easily enjoy intelligent lighting in life.

The development of Internet of Things (IoT) has been rapidly breaking the boundaries of industries, shaking the traditional commercial model and changing people’s life. Smart lighting is just the beginning of smart life. Only by realizing interaction between devices of light, entertainment and security by scenarios settings can Smart Home bring greater value to consumers. This strategic cooperation with Huawei indicates that Opple Lighting is attempting to break industry boundaries by seeking various partnerships across different industries to build an open eco-system and platform, on which the extensive cooperation between partners would eventually offer consumers with the ultimate convenience brought about by smart technologies and a new lifestyle that is intelligent in the true sense.

Mr. Wang Yaohai, said:

“The omnipresent light is the most convenient and efficient means for IoT in homes. The cross-boundary cooperation of ‘connectivity’ power between Opple and Huawei is the rewarding exploration to improve the lighting experience for consumers; furthermore, it signifies the grand beginning of the blueprint for Opple ‘Smart Home’.”

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Today at CeBIT 2016, Huawei debuted its Connected City Lighting Solution, the industry’s first Internet of Things (IoT) lighting solution with multi-level intelligent control.

Huawei Connected City Lighting Solution connects street lamps to the IoT and adopts a GIS-based management system, enabling cities to enhance the control and performance of every street lamp. The solution provides municipal managers with status information on each lamp, in every street and enables precise control of on-off switches and brightness of individual street lamps, allowing on-demand lighting and a reduction in energy consumption by up to 80%.

According to The Climate Group, there are approximately 304 million street lamps around the world, and the number is expected to reach 352 million by 2025. Street lamps are almost ubiquitous in cities. While these lamps bring convenience to people’s lives, they also consume a vast amount of energy and increase management costs for municipalities. For example, London has approximately 35,000 street lamps, resulting in an estimated total power consumption of 56,000,000kWh per annual, together with inspection costs and maintenance fees, the street lamps significantly impact municipal expenses. Huawei Connected City Lighting Solution is designed to address these issues.

Integrated Smart Lighting Policies to Ensure High Energy Efficiency

With Huawei’s Connected City Lighting Solution, each street lamp is equipped with a power and brightness controller. Unlike industry-standard access methods such as through Wi-Fi, Huawei adopts 6LoWPAN technology, which has lower power consumption, and can automatically diagnose, network, and trouble-shoot problems, as well as enable better interaction between street lamps and other smart devices such as sensors. To enhance the control and performance of street lamps, the solution integrates a series of preset smart lighting policies to:

• Automatically calculate lighting duration based on local longitude and latitude, and dynamically adjust lighting duration according to the specific season, month, and day.
• Smartly adjust brightness by connecting built-in brightness sensors with third-party traffic and people flow sensors, or based on weather and other environment conditions.

Huawei Connected City Lighting Solution pares LED lamps with smart lighting polices. When compared with conventional street lamps, such as high pressure sodium lamps, they help reduce energy consumption by up to 80%.

Visible Management and Online Inspection to Prevent Failures

Huawei’s solution adopts a GIS-based management system, which displays comprehensive information about the street lamps, including the number of lamps in each street, their current status, as well as their installation position and time. Using this solution, one person can manage thousands of lamps in different streets.

Multi-level Smart Control for Enhanced Protection and Reliability

Traditional street lamps are controlled collectively at a central point, and cannot be controlled individually. Huawei Connected City Lighting Solution addresses this challenge by providing multi-level smart controls, which comprise network smart controls on the first level and local smart controls on a secondary level. The agile IoT gateways and street lamp controllers are equipped with lightweight components to execute lighting policies and deliver a two-level localized decision-making mechanism.

All-layer Openness to Build a Smart City

Huawei Connected City Lighting Solution adopts an all-layer open architecture:

• Its base-layer processor development can be based on lightweight open-source LiteOS, facilitating standardization and efficient connections among third-party devices.
• The agile gateways support a virtualized architecture, enabling the development and installation of customized applications by partner companies.
• The agile controllers also provide third-party application systems with a standard northbound interface, helping to better integrate various service components, allowing comprehensive interaction with the smart transportation, environment monitoring, and municipal management systems.

Commenting on the role of Huawei Connected City Lighting Solution to drive Smart City development, Wu Chou, CTO of Huawei Switch and Enterprise Communications Product Line, said:
“Since the launch of Huawei Agile IoT Solution in May 2015, we have delivered several successful applications, including the power IoT solution, smart building solution, and smart stockbreeding solution.”

“Huawei Connected City Lighting Solution is another powerful application of Huawei Agile IoT Solution, and an important advancement towards a truly Smart City. Lighting IoT lays a solid foundation for the integration of a variety of sensors, to facilitate functions such as environmental and transportation monitoring, and installation of smart charging facilities and intelligent rubbish bins, providing Smart City development with valuable big data and integrated interaction to improve citizens’ lives.”

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Internet of Things Industry Leaders Accelerate Path to Smart Cities.

Today at Light + Building, the world’s leading trade show for lighting and building services technology, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Silver Spring Networks, Inc. announced a partnership to develop a networked LED street lights solution, helping to cut costs and simplify connected lighting componentry for luminaire manufacturers. This will accelerate the road to smart cities for municipalities, utilities, transportation departments and other outdoor lighting network operators. Networked LED public lighting systems deliver significant energy and operational savings, helping cities, utilities and other entities quickly establish a broad network canopy that can also be utilized for Smart City and Internet of Things (IOT) applications, such as traffic and parking management, environmental sensing and citizen safety.

The joint smart street light solution will be designed to enable luminaire manufacturers to take advantage of a pre-integrated networked photocell with auto-configuration and management capabilities, lowering costs and simplifying the end solution for customers. The collaboration will enable advanced capabilities such as wiring multiple sensors to a single driver, dynamic override commands, and advanced management of configuration files and firmware images across large-scale lighting networks.

The solution will build on Silver Spring’s IPv6- based Gen5 wireless networking platform and SLV6 smart city management software, and the Samsung Smart Lighting Module (SLM) that powers the Samsung Smart Lighting Platform (SLP). SLM is an all-in-one lighting application-specific wireless and wired connectivity solution that can be embedded into a sensor bus for smart cities and other IOT environments. Samsung SLM supports both wired and wireless communication protocols, including DALI and Bluetooth, to help operators seamlessly connect to various sensor networks and smart devices. SLM enables smart lighting luminaires to act as nodes for diverse smart lighting environments.

“Samsung and Silver Spring Networks share a common vision for the IOT. Large-scale outdoor lighting networks offer a viable path to smarter cities and safer communities, and provide a solid foundation for future Internet of Things applications,” said Dr. Jacob Tarn, Executive Vice President, LED Business Team, Samsung Electronics.

“The Samsung and Silver Spring solution will leverage open standards to provide a simple, scalable and highly efficient long-term path for connecting Internet of Things devices.”

“We are pleased to partner with an industry leader like Samsung to help advance the outdoor lighting, smart cities, and broader IOT markets,” said Brandon Davito, Vice President of Smart Cities and Lighting, Silver Spring Networks. “We are committed to delivering standards-based solutions that simplify the roll out of smart lighting networks and unlock clear economic benefits for our customers.”

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Vodafone announced today a new agreement to become a global Internet of Things (IoT) managed connectivity partner for Philips Lighting, a Royal Philips company and the global leader in lighting.

Under the agreement, the two companies will enable city authorities worldwide to implement smart street lighting systems which will be connected wirelessly, saving energy and making maintenance easier and more efficient.

The Philips CityTouch street lighting management system will use Vodafone’s world-leading machine-to-machine (M2M) network to connect individual light points. Every connected street lamp will contain a Vodafone M2M SIM. City authorities can then monitor and manage lighting through a user-friendly and highly flexible system while engineers will be able to check performance, identify faults and control the lighting remotely.

The joint offering allows city authorities to create an infrastructure that is easily scalable, and will be able to support other smart city applications in future.

Vodafone M2M Director, Erik Brenneis, said:
‘Lighting plays a key role in the smart city. Our agreement with Philips will see this technology transforming cities across the world backed by Vodafone’s world-leading innovation, technologies and networks.’

Bill Bien, SVP, Head of Strategy and Marketing, at Philips Lighting added:

‘Just less than 12% of the world’s street lights are LED and less than 2% are connected. We are at the start of a new era which will see highly energy efficient connected street lighting become the backbone of most smart cities.’

‘Robust, reliable wireless connectivity will help make this happen, linking streetlights with sensors, devices and management systems. By partnering with Vodafone we can work together to take light beyond illumination, helping to make cities more energy efficient, safer and ultimately more liveable.’

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Option announces the acquisition of the shares of the Dutch LED lighting companies Lemnis Lighting BV Public and Innolumis Public Lighting BV and merges the two companies into a single commercial organization under the name Innolumis Public Lighting.

By merging the two LED companies, Option creates a strong LED enterprise that will continue to serve the Dutch public lighting market from its new location in Amersfoort and will further expand the activities in Belgium, Europe and worldwide.

Lemnis and Innolumis shared the same portfolio but had geographically divided the market and ran separate organizations. Following the merge, the single organization will combine the strengths of both organizations.

Option has found a strong partner and its acquisition fits perfectly in its ‘Internet of Things’ strategy.

The advanced technology of Option and Innolumis allows the creation of smart lighting to provide citizen comfort by real-time surveillance of traffic, parking, road conditions, temperature mapping, CO2 emissions and particulate matter, and maintain safety with real-time integrated camera technology including license plate recognition, people tracking and intrusion detection.

LED streetlights represent a saving of 60 to 70%, in addition, savings are increased by an additional 50% with the possibility of dimming the LED lamps.

With the integration of the two companies public-private partnerships (PPP) in cities and towns are possible with the aim to support the tasks of the government and improve the quality of life of citizens.

A pilot project will take place in the city of Leuven.

Jan Callewaert, Founder and Executive Chairman of Option:

“This acquisition strengthens Option’s portfolio with a total solution in the rapidly developing market of Smart City applications. The demand for LED streetlights is growing and Option’s Cloud Gate technology enables the development of smart applications.”

“We are excited to partner with Option. With the integration of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) solutions Innolumis is now ready for the future”, says Gert Grolleman, CEO Innolumis Public Lighting.

With the demand of cities and municipalities for energy-efficient street lighting, coupled with smart technology, both companies are on track to make the streets safer, more economical, more environmentally friendly and more pleasant.

The LED lamps have been developed according to the mesopic Innolumis concept with the correct light passing before the human eye, especially in situations of low light. Mesopic light sources have red, green and blue (RGB) LEDs that provide an optimal light spectrum with little energy. Gert Grolleman: “We do not sell light but sight.”

Innolumis has an installed base of 60,000 LED lamps, a large number of them in the Netherlands including Schiphol Airport and has a steady stream of repeat orders.

The company foresees a turnover of EUR 6 million this year with a positive operating cash flow from the second half. The figures of Innolumis, a 100% subsidiary of Option will be included in the reporting of Option.

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