Washington DC progresses smart city transformation plans
Source: Smart Cities World by SmartCitiesWorld news team
The city’s streetlights will be converted to energy-efficient LED technology with remote monitoring and control capabilities to reduce consumption and optimise operations.
Washington DC has approved a project to convert all the city’s streetlights to energy-efficient LED technology with remote monitoring and control capabilities as part of its smart city transformation project.
The aim is to reduce the energy consumption by more than 50 per cent, optimising maintenance operations and enabling safer, more connected communities.
Smart lighting modernisation
Historically, the District of Columbia’s maintenance services department relies on its citizens to contact them to identify streetlight malfunctions with the current lighting based on older, high energy-consuming sodium lamps without remote monitoring.
The implementation consortium includes Engie North America, responsible for the design and construction, Equans, the lighting service provider for the next 15 years and Romanian-based Flashnet as the smart lighting solution provider, which includes hardware, communications and software. The city will install 75,000 inteliLIGHT streetlight controllers from Flashnet.
“The benefits of inteliLIGHT connected street lighting extend beyond illumination, and we are proud to demonstrate our capabilities in Washington DC”