Evolving smart city applications,
for better light and lower energy
Philips Lighting and the City of Los Angeles are exploring new smart city applications that build on the CityTouch connected lighting system, which manages 110,000 street lights across the city. The ability to add new applications and data streams to the digital ecosystem demonstrates the power of open system.
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A responsive city for improved city services
Remco Muijs; Senior Research Scientist at Philips Lighting
The Los Angeles Bureau of Street Lighting and Philips Lighting have collaborated on a program that uses CityTouch connected street lighting management and connected sensors to obtain additional value from the public lighting system:
The LA pilot projects demonstarte how a connected street lighting infrastructure and an open systems approach support evolving smart city applications.
Dietmar Offenhuber,
Northeastern University
Using street lighting to advance smart city applications
The customer: Ed Ebrahimian
Director, Bureau of Street Lighting, Los Angeles
Lighting infrastructure as a conduit for data collection
The researcher, Dietmar Offenhuber
Assistant Professor of Art+Design and Public Policy, Northeastern University
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