Cambridge, UK, May 16, 2019: Telensa, a company that is into smart street lighting and smart city applications, today announced that it had been selected by Sandwell Council to provide a smart street lighting solution as part of the region’s 2030 Vision Initiative.
The company said in a press note that the Council planned to install nearly 4,000 lights by 2020, with the intention to increase this to over 11,000 by 2022. The smart lights will be wirelessly connected and managed using Telensa’s PLANet system. The Council would also convert all streetlights to the efficient Light Emitting Diodes (LED) as part of the upgrade. PLANet will give the Council control over lighting levels, allowing them to remotely tailor for each location, in addition to energy and maintenance cost savings.
Telensa PLANet is an end-to-end intelligent street lighting system, consisting of wireless nodes connecting individual lights, a dedicated network owned by the city and a central management application. The system pays for itself in reduced energy and maintenance costs, improves quality of maintenance through automatic fault reporting and turns streetlight poles into hubs for smart city sensors. Telensa PLANet has already connected over 1.7 million lights.
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