From Pilot to Citywide: Making Connected Streetlight Deployment Simple blog

 

Cities worldwide are rethinking how they manage infrastructure and connected streetlighting is becoming a cornerstone of more innovative, greener urban development. Municipalities can boost efficiency, safety, and sustainability by uniting centralised control with plug and play deployment, while keeping costs under control.

 

Centralised Control


With centralised control, city operators can remotely manage all the lighting across roads, parks, bridges, and crossings from a single platform. This unified system creates consistency, improves visibility, and saves significant resources by reducing the need for on-site interventions.

 

Operational Efficiency


Connected streetlighting brings new levels of operational efficiency. Real-time fault monitoring and streamlined maintenance workflows enable faster response times and better allocation of resources. These improvements can reduce operational costs by up to 50%, making lighting networks more cost-effective.

 

Energy and Sustainability


The energy savings are equally transformative. Intelligent scheduling, dimming capabilities, and solar integration can cut energy consumption by as much as 80%. This reduces expenses, eases pressure on the grid and helps cities progress toward ambitious sustainability and climate goals.

 

Safety and Ambience


Well-lit public spaces improve safety, enhance visibility, and create vibrant environments where communities thrive. With sensor-enabled lighting, uptime remains consistently high, ensuring that streets, crossings, and parks are well illuminated when it matters most.

The Benefits at a Glance:

 

  • Significant reduction in energy usage
  • Improved safety and citizen well-being
  • Enhanced urban management capabilities
  • Robust cybersecurity for critical infrastructure
  • Reduced downtime through automation
  • Open and scalable systems that grow with the city
  • Relief for overburdened grids

 

These benefits go beyond lighting alone, strengthening resilience, and providing a foundation for more innovative urban development.

 

Smarter Deployment Made Simple

 

Modern systems simplify deployment through automatic commissioning, location detection, and data upload making it easy to bring new streetlights online quickly.

 

The Easy Connect plug-and-play network takes this even further, delivering up to 30% more cost-effectiveness than traditional systems. It enables automatic luminaire data upload, ensures robust and reliable network performance, and provides greater flexibility for future adaptations. Cities also benefit from simple upgrade pathways, ensuring systems remain future proof.

 

Lighting the Way Forward

 

Connected streetlighting is no longer just about illumination. It represents more intelligent management, safer streets, and sustainable urban growth. With centralised control, smart monitoring, and simplified deployment, cities can unlock long-term value for their operations and communities.

 

Curious to know more? Dive deeper into how connected street lighting can enhance your cities’ operations and citizen well-being:
 https://www.interact-lighting.com/global/application-areas/city

 

To watch this webinar, click on this link:
 https://www.signify.com/global/lighting-academy/browser/webinar/simplifying-deployment-connected-streetlights

About the author:

Marcus Vongpraseuth
Michael Wilkinson

About Signify

 

Signify (Euronext: LIGHT) is the world leader in lighting for professionals and consumers and lighting for the Internet of Things. Our Philips products, Interact connected lighting systems and data-enabled services, deliver business value and transform life in homes, buildings and public spaces. In 2022, we had sales of EUR 7.5 billion, approximately 35,000 employees and a presence in over 70 countries. We unlock the extraordinary potential of light for brighter lives and a better world. We achieved carbon neutrality in our operations in 2020, have been in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index since our IPO for six consecutive years and were named Industry Leader in 2017, 2018 and 2019. News from Signify is located at the Newsroom, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram. Information for investors can be found on the Investor Relations page.

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