
Cellular is the only solution for smart-city lighting, says Signify – UNB won’t cut it
Cellular is the best connectivity technology for smart street-lighting in cities, reckons Netherlands based lighting company Signify. The rise of ultra narrowband (UNB) for outdoor smart lighting in cities, popularized …

Davos upgrades street lighting system with Signify
Smart lighting specialist Signify is helping the city of Davos, in Switzerland, in achieving its sustainability goals as it upgrades both Davos’ streetlights and the lighting of the city’s …

Installed base of smart street lights to reach 31.2 million by 2023: Study
The installed base of smart street lights is forecasted to surpass 31.2 million at a global level by 2013, according to a new research report from the IoT analyst …

Amazon, Apple, Google combine to develop new smart-home connectivity protocol
Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance have announced a working group, under the name Connected Home over IP, to develop and promote a new, royalty-free connectivity standard to increase …

Signify installs smart lighting system at automotive facility in Germany
Dutch smart lighting solutions provider Signify, formerly Philips Lighting, announced that it installed Interact Industry in the newly developed warehouse facility of Pilkington Automotive in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The Dutch firm …

Zigbee certified IoT products and platforms passes 3,000-mark with Amazon
The number of certified Zigbee IoT products and platforms in the market for smart homes and cities has passed 3,000, according to the Zigbee Alliance. The alliance’s certification programme seeks …

Signify launches new smart pole with IoT apps, connectivity
Dutch lighting company Signify, formerly Philips Lighting, has launched a new smart pole dubbed BrightSites, the firm said in a release. The new BrightSites smart pole accommodates a wide variety of …

Revenue from smart street lights to hit $1.7bn by 2026, surge 31% per year
Annual revenue from smart street lights will grow at compound annual rate of 31 per cent to reach $1.7 billion in 2026, reckons ABI Research. The analyst house said street …

The biggest smart street-lighting deployments in the world – a rough guide (updated 12/18)
Back in August, Enterprise IoT Insights published a list of the biggest smart street-lighting deployments. It was an imperfect list, then, we acknowledged, and likely to be an iterative exercise …

“It’s a big change, this Michael Jackson scenario” – how Cardiff got to grips with smart street lighting
Note: This is the full version of an article that appeared previously as an excerpt, found here; it also forms part of a major new report on the state of …