Chicago completes largest wireless smart-streetlight program in the U.S.
The smart cities of the future might not be about flying cars and jetpacks as they will be about increasing the efficiency of municipal infrastructures.
Chicago recently completed the largest city-wide wireless smart streetlight program in the United States, a move that will ultimately help reduce electricity usage and cut associated energy costs in half for the city, according to Dan Evans, senior director of product management at Itron. Itron, a technology company that enables cities and utilities to better manage energy and water, first became involved in the Chicago smart streetlight project in 2017.
The project is expected to save the city $12.4 million in electricity costs this year and more than $100 million over the next 10 years
By the time the project was complete in February, the wireless streetlight program provided 280,000 streetlight fixtures across the city. Those fixtures, said Evans, created an underlying Industrial IoT(IIot) communication infrastructure that lays the foundation for future uses.
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