Linked Solutions
Smart lamp posts
Challenge / Goal
More and more cities have started adopting energy efficient LED street lighting, which offers substantial (up to 50%) savings on energy consumption. Milan is exploring how a range of sensors and services can be added to lamp posts to transform them into a smart infrastructure for the city, demonstrating how smart technology can add value to people’s lives.The goal was to improve the efficiency of energy use in public lighting.
Solution
Milan has already replaced all street lights with LED technology, saving 50% of energy consumption and reducing CO2 emission.
Smart lampposts became the enabling infrastructure for several new services: Wi-Fi antennas, environmental monitoring (such as air quality, temperature, humidity, rain and water level, atmospheric pressure, noise), transport monitoring (such as monitor traffic flows and speeds of vehicles and flows of pedestrian, discourage double parked cars system). The telecommunication infrastructure will use LoRaWAN protocol that enables long-range wireless coverage for the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm.
By installing data concentrators for collecting data from field sensors and interfacing the same concentrators to the network server, cities have a network for new services.
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Planning time: 0.5 - 1 years
Implementation time: 2 - 5 years
Implementers
a2a smart city, Unareti, Comune di Milano
Service providers
a2a smart city, Unareti, Comune di Milano
End users
Bürger und Gemeinden
Increasing safety
Improving life quality
Enhanced data collection