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Streetlight networks are strategic assets for cities. Streetlights illuminate the roads we drive on, the pedestrian paths we walk along and the public areas where we gather. It provides us with safe roads, inviting public areas and enhanced security in our homes, businesses, and city centers. Streetlight Networks are also strategic as a potential peer-to-peer network that could be leveraged as a city communication network that could be operated or subcontracted, at a later stage, for environmental data metering, internet communications and distribution of city information and advertising. But the number of streetlights in a city and their wide geographic distribution make them difficult and expensive to operate : increasing cost of electricity, lamp replacements every four years, manpower and service trucks for onsite maintenance operations and outdated luminaires to retrofit. Street lighting systems add to carbon dioxide (CO², the principal “greenhouse gas”) emissions or nuclear dust from the production of electricity required to power the system. Did you know that the 90 million streetlights installed in Europe are consuming a total estimated 45 million Kwh representing an estimated cost of 5 billion euros per year to cities and being responsible for 20 million tons of CO² each year ? Together with the world-wide leaders in street lighting, Streetlight.Vision designs and markets an open Streetlight Monitoring and Control Solution to reduce energy spending and associated greenhouse gaz emissions while enhancing security and safety on the roads.
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