Street & Highway Lighting
Automates dimming and scheduling to reduce energy use and improve public‑area safety.
Smart City
Smart Lighting
A smart, energy‑efficient lighting system that uses IoT, wireless control, and adaptive automation to optimize street and industrial lighting across cities and large facilities.
Overview
About Smart Lighting
The Smart Lighting System is an intelligent IoT‑driven platform designed to modernize and optimize outdoor and industrial lighting infrastructure. Using wireless LPWAN technologies such as LoRaWAN and NB‑IoT, each lighting pole or fixture becomes remotely controllable, enabling real‑time dimming, scheduling, energy monitoring, and fault detection.
This transforms traditional lighting networks into adaptive, energy‑efficient systems that significantly reduce operational costs while improving visibility and safety in streets, highways, campuses, industrial zones, and public spaces.
The system integrates seamlessly with centralized lighting controllers and cloud platforms, allowing municipalities and facility operators to manage thousands of lights from a single dashboard. Automated brightness adjustment based on time, motion, or environmental conditions ensures optimal illumination with minimal energy waste. With remote diagnostics, predictive maintenance, and open API integration, the Smart Lighting System supports smart‑city initiatives, sustainability goals, and long‑term infrastructure resilience.
Where it’s deployed
Applications & Use Cases
Real-world environments where Smart Lighting delivers measurable operational value.
Community & Park Lighting
Adjusts brightness based on presence to enhance comfort while minimizing light pollution.
Commercial & Campus Lighting
Enables centralized control for buildings and campuses to optimize energy and maintenance.
Industrial Yard Lighting
Provides sensor‑based illumination for warehouses and logistics yards to improve safety and visibility.
Solution architecture diagram
How Smart Lighting works, from sensor to cloud platform
Each luminaire becomes an addressable asset. Dimming follows schedules and measured conditions, and a failed lamp reports itself instead of waiting for a night patrol or a public complaint.
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On the pole
Field devices and placementLuminaire controller
On, off and dim level, burn hours and fault codes
- Placement
- NEMA socket or driver compartment
- Power
- Mains from the luminaire
Energy metering
Voltage, current, power factor and consumption per pole
- Placement
- Inside the controller
- Power
- Mains
Ambient and motion sensing
Daylight level and presence for adaptive dimming
- Placement
- Pole head
- Power
- Mains or battery
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Wireless connectivity
Low power wide area networkLoRaWAN or NB-IoT
Controllers accept downlink commands as well as reporting uplinks, which allows scheduling, group dimming and remote switching from the platform.
Gateways and network server
Gateways mounted along the route cover long strings of poles. The network server manages device keys, downlink queueing and payload decoding for every controller.
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Cloud platform
Storage, rules and reportingPlatform services
Device management, secure ingestion, time series storage, rules and alerting, role based access and open interfaces for integration with the systems already in use.
- Pole and luminaire asset register with location
- Calendar, astronomical and adaptive dimming profiles
- Lamp failure, driver fault and burn hour tracking
- Energy consumption and saving reporting per group
- Group and zone control with change history
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Who acts on the data
Operations and reportingMaintenance teams
Fault list per pole, so a visit carries the right replacement part.
Energy management
Consumption per circuit and the effect of each dimming profile.
Municipality
Service level, availability and energy reporting by district.
What it does
Key Features
Engineered for real-world municipal and operator deployments — built to scale.
Remote Lighting Control & Automation
Turn lights on/off, dim, or schedule operations remotely through LoRaWAN/NB‑IoT for full network-wide control.
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Adaptive Brightness & Energy Optimization
Automatically adjusts lighting levels based on time, occupancy, or environmental conditions to reduce energy consumption.
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Real‑Time Fault Detection & Alerts
Instant notifications for lamp failures, power issues, or abnormal behavior to minimize downtime and maintenance costs.
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Energy Monitoring & Analytics
Tracks power usage per pole or zone, enabling data‑driven decisions and measurable sustainability improvements.
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Scalable Multi‑Site Cloud Management
Manage thousands of lighting nodes across cities or industrial campuses through a unified cloud dashboard.
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Seamless Integration with Smart‑City Platforms
Open APIs and IoT protocols allow integration with traffic systems, environmental sensors, and citywide automation frameworks.
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Questions
Smart Lighting questions we are asked most
- Can smart lighting controllers be retrofitted?
- In most cases yes. A controller fits the existing socket or driver compartment on the luminaire, so poles and cabling stay as they are and the work is done pole by pole without street excavation.
- How much energy does adaptive dimming save?
- The saving depends on the baseline lamp type, the dimming profile agreed and the hours of operation, so it is calculated per project rather than quoted as a fixed figure. The platform reports measured consumption per group before and after a profile change.
- How are lamp failures detected?
- The controller reports fault codes, burn hours and electrical behaviour, so a failed lamp or driver appears in the platform as a fault against a specific pole, with the information a crew needs to carry the right part.
Related reading: Smart City solutions, wireless technologies and smart cities industry page.
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