Smart-pole project in China tackles emissions

Signify has supplied LED street lighting, smart poles, and a connected lighting system to the industrial parks in Huanggang City in Hubei Province, China. This large-scale smart pole project will enable the province to save energy costs and emissions, while digitalizing the urban infrastructure.
 
The city opted for Signify’s BrightSites smart poles, PhilipsLED streetlights, and Interact connected lighting system. This combination provides high quality and energy-efficient LED lighting, plus two-way communication on a cloud-based platform. The operations team can optimize street lighting performance and accurately measure energy usage in real time, all from a remote dashboard. This helps the team detect and act on any maintenance needs and optimize usage to bring down costs and energy-related emissions.

Even during daylight hours, the city’s lighting infrastructure is working behind the scenes. The BrightSites smart poles integrate security cameras, environmental sensors, Wi-Fi and other devices to collect city data and enable remote management and data analysis, all within a secure network. With this intelligent system in place, city planners can make informed decisions on issues like urban planning, safety, and traffic management, creating a benchmark for future smart city projects. LED screens integrated within the smart poles can be used to display information for citizens such as the date and time, weather forecast, real-time temperature, or city information.

Worldwide, replacing conventional street lighting with energy-efficient LED is an effective way to reduce energy consumption and associated emissions. A city simply switching conventional public lights to LED could expect close to a 50% reduction in energy consumption.