Hong Kong Highways Department Selects Telensa for Yuen Long Smart Street Lighting Pilot
April 16 2018 - 8:00PM
Business Wire
Wireless solution saves money by connecting and
managing LED streetlights and provides a low-cost platform for
smart city applications
Telensa, the market leader the leader in connected street
lighting and smart city applications, today announced that it has
been selected by the Highways Department of the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region Government (HKSARG) to deploy its PLANet
intelligent street lighting system in a pilot programme led by
engineering services group South King-Kum Shing JV to replace about
600 streetlights in Yuen Long Town with wirelessly managed LED
lights. The Yuen Long community has a population of 148,000 and is
located in the New Territories.
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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 one million
lights connected, Telensa PLANet is the world’s most popular
connected streetlight system.
“We’re delighted to be working with our partners, the Highways
Department of the HKSARG and South King-Kum Shing JV to pilot an
efficient, resilient and smart street lighting system for Hong
Kong, one 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 in future on
low-cost smart city 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 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’s Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) wireless networks simply
attach to light poles. They can provide city or region-wide
coverage in a matter of days, and are designed to run reliably for
decades. The company is working alongside other leading vendors
within ETSI (the European Telecommunications Standards
Institute) to develop standards for LPWA networks.
Telensa is also a founding member of ETSI’s City Digital Profile
(CDP) that will help accelerate the delivery of integrated citizen
services and provide a technology road map for city leaders who
will benefit from standardized solutions from their suppliers.
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