Smart poles:
digital real estate
for the IoT in smart cities.

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Philips and Ericsson team up to bring improved connectivity to citizens

Philips and Ericsson cooperate on telco-integrated smart city lighting infrastructure. With co-created Philips lightpole site we provide mobile broadband connectivity through smart city lighting. The pilots in Los Angeles and San Jose have taken a major step in the evolution of the connected smart city.

Philips lightpole site serves both as an important connected light source, which can be remotely managed and a Wi-Fi hotspot that improves mobile network performance across the city. Because they are a 2-in-1 solution – a connected device that also provides necessary light without taking up extra space – Philips lightpole site create digital real estate for the IoT in smart cities.

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Benefits:

2-in-1 solution that takes up no extra space

Improved mobile network performance

Capable of housing additional services in the future
Enhanced mobile broadband user experience

The Philips lightpole site initiative provides the City of San Jose with a unique win-win-win: more energy conservation, reduced expenditures on energy and maintenance, implementation of LED lighting on dark city streets, and an enhanced broadband experience for our residents.”

Sam Liccardo

Mayor of San Jose, California, USA

Helsinki pilots smart city parking

The smart parking pilot explores new applications for connected technology. This pilot builds on a connected lighting infrastructure by using sensors embedded in the light poles and cameras to monitor parking availability. Monitored data is sent to a central server and pushed to platforms that can be used by 3rd party applications and services. Continuous tracking helps identify available spaces and parking bottlenecks.

Jakarta embraces connected technology

Jakarta's recent lighting project, a significant milestone in the city's ongoing transformation into a smart city, involved upgrading nearly 90,000 street luminaires with energy efficient LED lights connected to a Philips CityTouch lighting management system. Completed in just seven months, this project represents the world’s fastest street lighting retrofit and remote management project undertaken to date.

Evolving applications,
Los Angeles

"There is a lot more that can be achieved using the street lighting infrastructure, in addition to providing lighting for the citizens.” Ed Ebrahimian, Director, Bureau of Street Lighting, City of Los Angeles.

Philips Lighting created a pilot program that uses an open systems approach to leverage the city’s connected street lighting infrastructure:

San Francisco

In 2011, the non-profit arts organization, ILLUMINATE, collaborated with the California Department of Transportation, and artist Leo Villareal to create a stunning display of light on the San Francisco -Oakland Bay Bridge. Unveiled in 2013 and originally intended as a short-term installation, The Bay Lights became a global attraction. Before going live, it was dubbed by Hemispheres magazine as “the number one thing to see in the world during 2013.”

Siegburg

Utilizing the CityTouch workflow app, which designed exclusively for lighting, officials of the city of Siegburg, Germany, are now able to efficiently streamline workflows, improve maintenance response times, and more.

Buenos Aires

"In addition to enabling energy savings, CityTouch provides our customers with unique, flexible, sustainable, and integrated lighting management solutions."

Gustavo Verna, CEO Philips Argentina

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Smart poles: digital real estate for the IoT in smart cities.