5G streetlights installed a Peachtree Corners: Smart City USA

The smart city at Peachtree Corners is beaming with innovative technologies, even though some of it is hiding in plain sight.

There are solar panels built into street pavement that the autonomous shuttle continually drives over for testing, lidar sensors high up on poles sending signals to the IoT control center and streetlights that look like, well, streetlights.

However, the normal looking streetlight is anything but.

It contains a 5G small cell, Wi-Fi access point, IoT sensors, closed-circuit television and, of course, LED lights.

The Israeli company behind this is Juganu, which has partnerships with Qualcomm, NCR, Comcast and Amdocs, with Comcast and Amdocs also investing in the company.

The idea of packing all the technology into the lighting fixture started simple enough.

“It all started through the lighting,” Roger Bigio, chief revenue officer Juganu, told me during an extensive tour of the Peachtree Corners smart city. “It was the light poles where it all started.

“Then on the lighting, we added some edge and an AI camera.

“And then we realized that there is a lot of opportunity here, especially if they communicate to each other. So we enhanced it with the proprietary network communication that can manage multiple bands.”

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