Connected Street Lighting: A smart city starting point

A smart city is as much an approach as a physical entity. There is no clear blueprint or fixed set of criteria that a city has to meet before it is called ‘smart’. What is becoming clear, however, is that smart cities are not delivered by any single initiative.

An ecosystem approach is important in order to avoid siloed thinking that is almost certain to lead to lack of interoperability across different systems in the future, affecting a city’s ability to innovate further down the line.