BROWSING: Smart Lighting

Annual shipments of smart lighting components including luminaires and sensors will reach 138.5 million units by 2030, according to ABI Research. The firm forecasts compound growth (CAGR) of 12 percent per annum over the five-year period, rising from 71 million shipments in 2024. Smart...

The network slicing demo took place at the new Deutsche Telekom lab in Poland and in partnership with with cthings.co and Valmont Deutsche Telekom demonstrated the use of 5G network slicing for mission-critical urban infrastructure with edge IoT solutions company cthings.co. The demonstration took place...

India-based IoT provider Quantela has signed a deal with T-Mobile in the US to bundle the carrier's cellular IoT airtime with its smart-city solutions. Quantela is focused on cities and utilities in the US, it said, particularly in the smart street-lighting space. The firm said...

The Things People – those in charge of the The Things Network (TTN) and The Things Industries (TTI) – took the magnanimous (though correct, given its place in the back-end IoT stack) step at its annual LoRaWAN developer event in Amsterdam, The Things Conference,...

Finland-based Edzcom and Netherlands-based Signify have entered a partnership to build a private smart-city 5G and IoT network using street-lighting and other road infrastructure for the city of Tampere, in Finland. The network, which is to be deployed and densified in quick-time by Edzcom...

France-based facility services company Derichebourg Multiservices has integrated 1,200 IoT sensors into the LED ceiling lights at its new headquarters in Créteil (pictured), near Paris. Data from the sensors will help the firm optimise its energy management at the site, as well as to...

Lighting firm Signify has completed its acquisition of UK-based Telensa, a pioneer in the smart street-lighting market, with a strong customer base among local councils and utility organisations, notably in the UK. The deal was originally announced last July; the transaction fee has not...

  Indian company Tata Communications and Saudi Arabia operator Zain KSA announced they have entered a strategic engagement to carry out smart city initiatives in Saudi Arabia. With this collaboration the partners will deliver solutions and platforms to remodel cities with smart street lighting, smart waste...

The DALI Alliance, the trade group representing the DALI smart-lighting interface, has released a new gateway specification to allow intelligent lighting fixtures to talk to Bluetooth mesh networks, and to share analytics across building management systems. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the trade association...

IoT connectivity provider Wirepas has closed a monster-sized deal with smart lighting provider Ingy for 100,000 units of its mesh networking solution, to be combined with Ingy’s indoor lighting control solutions. It is the biggest smart lighting deal to date for Finland-based Wirepas, providing...

Cities must keep faith in “tech-first optimism” as they grapple with the fallout from the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic in the next five years. A new forecast for smart-city spending in the period suggests they will embrace such a philosophy. Frost & Sullivan has issued a...

  U.K. smart city company Connexin announced it has raised an initial commitment of up to £80 million ($103 million) in funding to further strengthen its position in the smart infrastructure and Internet of Things (IoT) sector. The company said that new investment will support the...

The trade groups representing Bluetooth technology and the DALI smart-lighting interface are working together to promote their technologies as complementary IoT standards for commercial indoor lighting systems. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the trade association that oversees Bluetooth technology, and the Digital Illumination Interface Alliance...

The Zigbee Alliance and the Digital Illumination Interface Alliance (DiiA), the organisation for DALI lighting control, are working together to bring further standardisation and system interoperability to IoT-based luminaires in the smart lighting space. The pair said the collaboration will help realise the benefits of combining...

UK firm Telensa is combining indoor and outdoor smart lighting controls into a single management system with certain customers in the UK, the company has said. The projects, with unnamed customers, are among the first examples of integrated management of indoor and outdoor lighting systems,...

This is an excerpt from a new editorial report, part of Enterprise IoT Insights’ new Digital Industry Solutions series. The report, called Smart Lighting as a Platform – for Buildings and Cities’ – is available to download in full (for free) – click here. Lighting...

Smart lighting as a platform. Lighting is everywhere humans are, and already connected to power, making it the perfect apparatus for future wireless technologies and sensors. This report considers how smart lighting platforms are developing in the buildings / commercial real estate (CRE) market,...

Smart lighting as a platform. Lighting is everywhere humans are, and already connected to power, making it the perfect apparatus for future wireless technologies and sensors. This report considers how smart lighting platforms are developing in the buildings / commercial real estate (CRE) market,...

What smart-city lighting deployments are particularly innovative? That was the question Enterprise IoT Insights put to market commentators, during its research for a new editorial report (available tomorrow), which considers how smart lighting, in buildings and cities, is being used as a springboard for...

The vertical farming industry in its infancy, with most practitioners stuck in hobbyist production. But the fragile case for growing food in warehouses – automated and dynamic local production, using less water, less fertiliser, less energy – is alive and kicking, in the British...

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 by UK rival Telensa, will not cut it, the company has said.  Proprietary UNB-based technologies,...

Amsterdam-based Ingy has confirmed it is using wireless mesh protocol Wirepas as the foundational technology for its smart lighting offer, and the key component to scale smart lighting for hundreds of thousands of nodes in single networks buildings, including in offices, warehouses, hospitals, and...

Annual deployments of new smart poles for street lighting, featuring sensors and connectivity, willl increase at a compound rate of more than 50 per cent per year, from just 600 initial installations in 2019 to 22,000 in 2028, according to analyst company Navigant Research. At...

  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 Congress Center to energy-efficient LEDs, the firm said in a release. This week, Davos will host...