Melbourne company Leadsun will install 10,000 smart solar lights across the Epperson development in Florida over the next few years which combine LED, Lithium batteries and wireless technology.
The Scottish capital will further work with provider CGI to put in place a programme of digital transformation which includes a range of smart city applications.
As well as control and manage the city’s lighting, the T-Light Galaxy Network from ST Engineering will provide a backbone for more advanced smart city applications.
Smart cities will be a major driver of the expansion with APAC expected to register the highest incremental growth due to increasing technology awareness by governments.
On average the projects are saving the municipalities almost 70 per cent in annual kWH hours and reducing consumption by more than 2.3 million kWh annually.
Cimcon’s latest round of funding includes a revenue-sharing facility that it claims will enable its city customers to deploy smart initiatives with "minimal" upfront costs.
A report by the Northeast Group find that smart street lighting is strengthening its position as a foundational layer for wider smart city implementations.
The Pennsylvania capital is piloting traffic analytics, air quality monitoring and smart waste sensor systems using Telensa’s connected streetlighting system.
The Scottish city has chosen technology company Pinacl to implement 3,500 lighting controllers and a LoRaWan network that will enable it to deploy other smart city applications.
What claims to be the largest survey of the US street lighting market finds that the vast majority of the country’s largest cities have begun or are considering deploying LED and smart streetlights
FIWARE CEO Ulrich Ahle speaks to Graeme Neill about how the Smart Cities for Germany programme is helping the country’s poor track record on digitising services and how the battle for public opinion on open-source has been won.
