Building the smart city: facilitating effective city spaces
summary
Claim: street lighting acts as a low‑cost IoT backbone. Specifics: swapping to LED yields LED switch saves ~50% energy and adding sensors and controls raises savings to connected controls 70–80%, while only ~10% of 320 million poles are LED and 2–3% connected today (projected 29% by 2027). Tools and deployments: Signify’s Interact: 1.5M light points across 1,500+ projects plus examples — Los Angeles sensor+noise monitoring, Rotterdam acoustic 10s recordings, Schiphol light‑as‑a‑service — all reported working in city pilots.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:28Trends
- 2:21Cities
- 4:40The good news
- 5:30What is a smart city
- 7:00Lighting infrastructure
- 8:44Connected lighting
- 10:50Energy metering
- 12:52Examples
- 14:56Open systems
- 15:18Data sharing
- 17:20Financing
- 18:30Government policies
- 19:46Conclusion
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