Australia’s Sunshine Coast Selects Telensa for Smart Street Lighting Pilot
August 21 2018 - 7:00PM
Business Wire
Wireless system brings adaptive lighting and
sensor platform to flagship smart city development
Telensa, the market leader in connected street lighting and
smart city applications, today announced that it has been selected
by Sunshine Coast Council to deploy its PLANet intelligent street
lighting system, for a 24 month pilot in the Maroochydore City
Centre development, and in nearby Evans Street. Sunshine Coast is
one of the largest and fastest growing regional economies in
Australia, and the Maroochydore City Centre development will create
a new capital city for the region with smart technology embedded
from the outset. The Telensa pilot will demonstrate the social,
environmental and financial benefits of adaptive street lighting.
It will also show the potential for adding smart city sensors such
as for air quality, traffic analytics and waste monitoring. The
system is due to be deployed in September.
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Telensa PLANet is an end-to-end smart street lighting system,
consisting of wireless nodes connecting individual lights, a
dedicated wireless network owned by the city, and a central
management application. The system pays for itself in reduced
energy and maintenance costs, improves quality of service through
automatic fault reporting, and has the capacity to turn streetlight
poles into hubs for smart city sensors. With more than 1.5 million
lights connected, Telensa PLANet is the world’s most popular
connected streetlight system.
“By making our streetlights smart, Telensa will help us reduce
costs and improve the streetlighting experience, as well as
providing a platform for smart sensor applications,” said Sunshine
Coast Council’s Economic Development and Innovation Portfolio
Councillor, Steve Robinson. “This deployment is another example of
the Council’s commitment to intelligent infrastructure that
delivers a safer, smarter, and more efficient environment for our
citizens.”
The CEO of SunCentral, the company overseeing design and
delivery of the new Maroochydore City Centre, said the goal was to
create a Central Business District (CBD) for the future that would
remain cutting edge for many years to come. “With no legacy
infrastructure to remove or replace on the 53-hectare greenfield
site, we have a unique opportunity to create a CBD with
unprecedented communications and technological abilities,”
SunCentral CEO John Knaggs said.
“We’re delighted to be working with Sunshine Coast Council to
make street lighting in Maroochydore smarter and more efficient,
with a system that will be responsive to citizens’ needs for
decades to come,” said Will Gibson, Founder and Chief Commercial
Officer at Telensa. “We’re looking forward to working together on a
new generation of low-cost smart sensor applications, enabled by
the city’s lighting network.”
About Telensa
Telensa® makes wireless smart city applications, helping cities
around the world save energy, work smarter and deliver more
joined-up services for their citizens. Telensa PLANet is the
world’s most deployed smart streetlight solution, with a footprint
of more than 1.5 million lights. Building on the compelling
business case for its smart streetlighting, the company provides
cities and utilities with an open, low-cost platform to add
multiple sensor applications.
Telensa will be exhibiting at the Australian Smart
Light Summit 2018, September 11-12 in Melbourne. Keith Henry,
Telensa's Technical Sales Manager ANZ will be presenting. For
further details
visit http://www.lightingconference.com.au/
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