IoT lighting for smart cities, the commitment of networking and lighting manufacturers

Many have been the IoT smart street lighting solutions presented in recent months by networking and telecommunications manufacturers together with lighting companies to promote energy savings with advanced control and connectivity systems for street lamps in smart city projects.

The recent celebration of important systems integration fairs, Smart buildings and lighting have been the framework to present advanced smart lighting solutions for smart cities based on the Internet of Things (Internet of Things – Iot), Result of joint developments between telecommunications and networking and lighting operators.

The following examples of IoT lighting solutions highlight the importance of these developments not only to improve energy efficiency in increasingly populated cities., but as a business opportunity for these industries, as discussed below.

One of the first solutions in the Spanish market, As he advanced Digital AV Magazine, is Zero Site, A prototype of a connected urban street lamp Ericsson installed in Santander that combines advanced ICT features with state-of-the-art Led lighting and offers macro coverage for 4G technology in 2.600 Mhz.

Huawei Connected City Lighting Solution

The Chinese multinational presented during the recent CeBIT contest 2016 its first IoT lighting solution with intelligent multi-level control that, based on the data provided, It will save a 80% of energy in municipal urban lighting.

Connected City Lighting Solution Huawei connects streetlights to IoT and adopts a GIS-based management system that allows cities to improve the control and performance of each. The solution offers municipal managers information on the status of each street lamp, on every street and enables precise control of on/off switches and individual brightness, with lighting on demand.

According to data The Climate Group exist approximately 304 millions of street lamps worldwide, and this figure will reach 352 millions to 2025, with significant energy consumption and management and maintenance costs for municipalities.

In Huawei's solution, Each street lamp is equipped with a power and brightness controller. Unlike industry standard access methods, like Wi-Fi, Connected City Lighting Solution adopts 6LoWPAN technology, that has low energy consumption, Automatic diagnostic function to resolve network problems, plus better interaction between street lamps and other smart devices, as sensors.

To improve street lamp control and performance, The solution integrates a series of preset smart lighting policies to automatically calculate lighting duration based on local longitude and latitude, and dynamically adjust the direction of lighting according to the season, specific month and day.

It is also possible to intelligently adjust the brightness by connecting integrated sensors with third-party traffic and people flow, or based on climate and other environmental conditions. This solution adopts a GIS-based management system, showing complete information about street lamps, including the number of streetlights on each street, your current state, as well as its position and time of installation to manage thousands of units located in different roads.

Huawei Connected City Lighting Solution brings multi-level intelligent controls. Agile IoT gateways and streetlight controllers are equipped with lightweight components to execute lighting policies and offer a two-tiered localized decision-making mechanism, with an open architecture in all its layers.

ZTE BluePillar

This provider of telecommunications and mobile Internet technology solutions has presented the BluePillar solution, an integrated street lamp with BlueBox charging pillar ZTE, Base Station (BTS) 4G iMacro and smart controller that allows the traditional pillar of street lamps to function as a repeater of the 4G/5G BTS signal or serve as a charging point for electric vehicles.

BluePillar not only solves the difficulty in 4G network sites, but also ensures the construction of Wi-Fi network, Environmental monitoring, Security and management of data collection in hotspots (climate, environment, transport, Etc.), while its large outdoor Led screen can be used to display information and advertising.

Philips CityTouch and Vodafone M2M

Another recent global partnership to offer connectivity and IoT lighting services stars Philips Lighting and Vodafone, with the aim of making it easier for cities around the world to deploy connected public lighting systems with remote management to offer energy savings and efficient maintenance.

To do this, Philips CityTouch will use Vodafone's global M2M network to connect the light points individually, so that each street lamp will integrate an M2M SIM of this operator so that the municipalities control and manage the system remotely of all the parameters (Performance of each light point, luminosity, Automatic configuration, Fault detection, Etc.).

This solution offers energy savings of 30-40%, based on the data provided, as well as the maintenance cost of each street lamp, and its scalable architecture will also be able to incorporate other IoT applications and services.

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