BROWSING: Smart Lighting

UK smart lighting firm Telensa and Thailand-based lighting manufacturer LIGMAN have struck a deal to combine their offers in the Asia Pacific market. The pair will offer LED luminaires and wireless controls as a combined offer in the region. The deal – bringing intelligent control...

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 said that this cloud-based, wireless connected lighting system is specifically designed for warehouses and manufacturing...

UK firm Telensa is to provide smart outdoor lighting, bringing remote control and energy savings, at the Port of Tyne, in the northeast of England. The Port of Tyne, one of the UK's major deep-sea ports, is a trading centre for a diverse range of...

U.S. firm Itron, a technology company that specializes in products and services for energy and water resource management, VINCI Energies’ Electrix and Transport Canberra and City Services (TCCS) are working to create an industrial internet of things (IIoT) network to support smart lighting and...

  The project stipulates the connection of 140,000 municipal smart streetlights in Chicago and northern Illinois   U.S. firm Itron, together with power company ComEd have a new initiative aimed at modernizing municipal lighting and driving smart city development in northern Illinois. ComEd serves more than 4 million...

Two hours from Warsaw, the town of Kazimierz Dolny has hardly changed since the Renaissance, when it thrived as centre for the grain trade. T-Mobile Poland has just announced plans to make it the country’s “first multifaceted smart city”. Deutsche Telekom, parent of T-Mobile Poland,...

  The city’s smart lighting initiative stipulates the replacement of 270,000 lights across Chicago Chicago has already installed over 76,000 new LED smart streetlight fixtures in each of the city’s 50 wards in the first year of the city’s smart lighting program. Progress so far on...

The IoT is applicable to energy in many more ways than just smart metering Smart metering--connecting electric, gas and other utility meters to the internet--has emerged as an important early use case for the internet of things (IoT). The data generated by smart meters can...

Learn how KCP&L is working with Nokia on a smart grid project as part of a more broad smart city development A smart city in many ways is the ultimate exercise in the internet of things in that it involves a huge variety of projects...

The smart lighting projects involved the installation of 12,000 connected street lights in Guadalajara In a new smart lighting deployment, Philips Lighting has installed 12,000 LED street lights in the city of Guadalajara, Spain. The street lights are managed by the Philips CityTouch street lighting...

Fostering long-term innovation is key to Barcelona's smart city ambitions Barcelona has been very active in terms of the deployment of smart city initiatives over the last few years. One key element of the Spanish city’s smart city plan is the so-called ‘Smart City Campus’ which...

South Korea is well known for the deployment of smart cities projects across several cities. The government, together with private investment, is making efforts to expand these initiatives in areas, including traffic, government services, security, energy and the environment. According to a previous study by...

Smart lighting serves as a 'vertical asset' that provides for a platform for further IoT initiatives CHICAGO--Coming with a clear path to return on investment and capable of serving to support broader smart city and internet of things ambitions, smart lighting is a major driver...

Smart lighting lays the groundwork for a smart city The City of Oslo needed a street lighting solution to satisfy European directives to reduce energy use and carbon dioxide emissions. The Norwegian capital also wanted to lower street light operating costs, ensure driver and pedestrian...

In June 2016, 3GPP finalized its Release 13 LTE Advanced-Pro specification, which included the fundamental technological features of narrowband-internet of things (NB-IoT) connectivity. Since then, the connectivity scheme has gained widespread attention and adoption from the global operator communities in support of use cases...

The NB-IoT project is a joint initiative between Nordic telco Telia Norway and Datek Light Control Nordic telecom group Telia Company and Datek Light Control have developed a prototype for smart street lighting in Norway using narrowband-internet of things (NB-IoT) technology. Telia said the new prototype...

Pair of studies focus on where and how smart city tech can make the biggest difference In many ways the digital transformation from a city to a smart city is the ultimate application of the internet of things--the umbrella term covers a wide array of...

American Tower and Philips Lighting partner on connected light poles to add network density for smart city applications SAN FRANCISCO--Siting of wireless infrastructure in urban spaces is often a tricky proposition for wireless carriers and neutral host providers. Regulations vary between jurisdictions, which makes developing...

Portugal’s capital Lisbon is currently testing a number of smart city initiatives to improve energy efficiency, sustainability and quality of life in the city as part of the city’s involvement in the Sharing Cities project. Under this smart city project, a number of European cities...

ABI Research said smaller cities tend to prioritize projects based on more immediate tangible benefits such as cost savings and reduction of carbon footprint. Los Angeles, New York and Chicago are the smartest cities in the United States, according to a new study by ABI...

Vodafone confirmed it will carry out proof-of-concept trials of smart lighting and smart parking through NB-IoT The Irish subsidiary of U.K. telecommunications operator Vodafone has launched a nationwide NB-IoT network, local press reported. Vodafone Ireland has upgraded existing 4G base stations, in cooperation with Ericsson,...

Poles will support IoT, Wi-Fi, autonomous driving and smart lighting A subsidiary of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate with French lighting company Ragni Group to develop smart lighting poles. The deal was signed by Innogy...

To improve the quality of life in urban areas, many cities are attempting to harness the power of the internet of things (IoT) to combat crime, increase efficiency, drive economic growth and improve accessibility, according to Nokia. The company offers a wide range of...

 The acquisition will allow Osram to expand its business with IoT lighting solutions   German firm Osram has agreed to acquire U.S. company Digital Lumens, which specializes in industrial internet of things (IoT) solutions. The Digital Lumens software platform can be used to run applications covering...