Smart Street Lighting
Smarter Lighting Starts with Smarter Connectivity
Street Lighting: A Smart City Priority
Street lighting plays a critical role in a city’s safety, economy, and citizens’ experience. However, it constitutes up to 65% of a city’s electricity costs and 10% of its overall budget.
Smart street lighting combines energy-efficient LED luminaires with wireless connectivity and optional sensors, allowing cities to remotely manage, monitor, and control lighting on roads, streets, parks, and plazas via a single dashboard.ÂÂ
Luminaires can automatically switch on, off, or dim based on natural light levels. Motion sensor lights turn on automatically upon detecting a person or vehicle approaching, while emergency areas can override schedules.ÂÂ
Smart street lighting typically covers large urban areas with a dense grid of line-powered luminaires that provide a reliable infrastructure for other IoT capabilities, such as smart waste bins, parking meters, and air quality sensors.
According to the Northeast Group, smart street lighting investment is expected to reach $28.1 billion over the next decade, not including installation value.
Cellular Connectivity Is Transforming Smart City Lighting
LTE-M and NB-IoT technology provides cost savings, energy efficiency, safety, scalability, and reliable connectivity. Smart lighting systems driven by IoT are incredibly energy-efficient, automatically adjusting light intensity based on time of day or presence of people. These systems are governed by global standardization and security alliances, ensuring the highest level of security available. Municipalities can take advantage of existing global cellular network infrastructure and scale from a single streetlight to millions.
IoT Requirements for Smart Street Lighting
Smart city lighting systems need chips capable of controlling the lights, collecting data, and communicating with other devices in the system. Reliable connectivity is essential for seamless communication between sensors, controllers, and cloud-based management software. Security is a key concern, and systems should integrate easily with other hardware and software components to fit seamlessly into existing infrastructure.
Performance Built for Smart Street Lighting
Our cellular IoT chips are designed from the ground up for reliable connectivity, feature a hardware-based security engine with GNSS functionality, and include an integrated SIM, providing everything you need for smart city lighting deployments.
Transform Your Smart City Lighting with Altair Cellular IoT Chips
With Altair, better connectivity means smarter cities. Our IoT chips provide ultra-low power consumption, a miniature size, extended battery life, reliability, and cost efficiency.
Partner with Us for IoT-Enabled Smart City Lighting
At Altair, we are dedicated to helping our customers succeed in their smart city initiatives. With years of experience in cellular IoT and a commitment to the highest-quality solutions, our chips provide the ideal foundation for comprehensive smart city lighting systems.
Connect with us to unlock the benefits of smart street lighting.
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