Cleverciti and Itron partner up on virtual event on smart lampposts: “Streetlights can achieve the impossible”
On November 19th, 2020, Cleverciti & Itron came together during their latest webinar that was focused on the implementation of smart lampposts in smart city projects around the world. This virtual event, joined by a record number of attendees representing more than 12 countries, was moderated by Cleverciti’s very own Joe Survance, who leads the US organization. The speaker panel consisted of:
Itai Dadon, Global Head of Smart Cities at Itron
Thomas Hohenacker, CEO & Founder at Cleverciti
David Parker, COO at Cleverciti
Itron, an important Cleverciti partner, for the implementation of smart city projects around the world, is a global leader in the management of energy, water, and other utilities in cities. Mr. Dadon, Global Head of Smart Cities at Itron, started off by stressing how important smart cities really are for us. “They are entirely created for us, for the citizens that the cities serve. Cities are under tremendous pressure these days, and COVID is adding to that,” Mr. Dadon shared. Smart cities help to make the lives of their residents better. The challenges that cities face are global. There are 3 categories of challenges cities face:
Environmental (lower emissions)
Social (improve quality of life)
Economic (increase compliance and revenue)
It is of great importance to both Itron & Cleverciti to contribute with their technologies to directly help solve these challenges.
Next, Mr. Hohenacker brings the topic to lampposts and explains the vital role they play in smart city projects. “First of all, they are everywhere. There are over 30 million streetlights in the US alone. And they are of extraordinary importance as they ‘overlook’ very important assets.”
Cleverciti was able to solve parking search in cities by utilizing lampposts in 2 steps:
Building an accurate data layer of the whole city to be able to say which spots are available and which are occupied (by using Cleverciti Sensors)
Creating guidance technology to bring you to the nearest available spot (by using Cleverciti Sign, Cleverciti Circ)
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: parking search is extremely costly to society. 30% of all traffic is search traffic. It is no surprise that cities these days are eager to solve this problem and lower the ‘cost’. Lampposts play a key role in solving parking issues in cities.
Cleverciti moves on by sharing three real-life examples of implementation projects in which streetlights were key in the solution to smart parking:
City of San Antonio (in close collaboration with Itron)
Curious about these real-life examples and their smart parking solutions?
Watch the full recording of the event here:
The presentation that was shared during the event can be found here: