Municipal engineering, smart city programs, digital transformation offices
Engineering and smart city teams have to justify the investment, pick a technology that outlives the tender, and avoid adding one more platform to a stack that is already siloed.
I want a solution that will still be relevant in ten years.
Council wants the number before the project, not after. A system that measures neither energy nor maintenance leaves the business case resting on a vendor estimate.
The network standard chosen today has to still be supported halfway through the life of the fixtures. Betting on a closed protocol turns the next phase into a replacement.
Lighting, parking, traffic and environmental sensors each arrive with their own portal and their own data model. The data never joins up.
Dimming profile, tonight
Open alarms
| Node | Issue | Age |
|---|---|---|
| RME-04812 | Lamp failure | 14 min |
| RME-01197 | Power fault | 1 h 20 |
| RTM-00934 | No response | 3 h 05 |
Laval: 37,000 luminaires on one platform
Laval converted 37,000 streetlights and connected the lighting platform to the Oracle asset, Intelight traffic and Esri GIS systems already in place. Savings of $2.75M CAD and 15 million kWh a year, 10,607 t of CO2 avoided, payback in five years.
Laval converted 37,000 street lighting fixtures under a $34.5 million contract and connected the lighting platform to the asset management, traffic and GIS systems the City already ran.
Read the case studyIntegrations in production include ArcGIS/Esri, Oracle EAM, Azure, PowerBI, Grafana, Intelight MAXVIEW 2.0 and Parknet/Parquery. A bidirectional REST API covers the rest. Laval runs the lighting platform alongside the Oracle, Intelight and Esri systems it already had.
On measured data. In Laval, converting 37,000 streetlights returns $2.75M CAD and 15 million kWh a year, avoids 10,607 t of CO2 and pays back in five years. LED conversion cuts energy by 50 to 70% and truck rolls by 30 to 40%.
One system manages up to 1,000,000 nodes or sensors in real time. Wi-SUN, DigiMesh, LTE-M, Ethernet and cellular coexist natively in the same network, and third-party NB-IoT or LoRaWAN sensors can join it too. Firmware is updated over the air across the fleet, with a change notice and customer approval.
A deployment of 10,000 to 50,000 luminaires takes 6 to 18 months, in phases. Send your network constraints and your GIS and asset systems and we will map them to what already runs.