Lighting Infrastructure as a Service Platform

Lighting Infrastructure as a Service Platform
C2 Street Lights in Aarnio
Team Organizations	C2 SmartLight Elisa Greenled Misal Nokia Tehomet Valopaa
Team Leaders	Eveliina Juntunen
Participating Municipalities	Helsinki Finland
Status	Launched
Document	None

Description

Lighting infrastructure is centrally located in city, close to people and activities. It provides excellent opportunity to collect and deliver information and services beyond lighting. Project targets to employ lighting infrastructure as the IoT backbone for different services in urban environments.

Challenges

Advanced sensing and communication (5G) technologies are struggling to find installation places in city environment. The challenges relate to the visual impression of devices in the cityscape and to the need of electricity and requirements of installation height.

Solutions

Smart solutions offer added value for urban environments on various levels of experience. However, there is a lack of knowledge on user’s experiences to support design processes. Understanding users’ needs is essential for creating feasible services and business opportunities in platforms.

Major Requirements

The project develops intelligent LED lighting pilots in participating cities, to which companies involved develop solutions to better respond to the cities’ needs. The research partners integrate the project together through the design of pilot contents and realization, user experience evaluation and technical development and testing. The project pilots smart lighting solutions in six Finnish cities in different kinds of urban environments. The research focus is dual: to study user needs and experiences of smart solutions, and to develop and test technology needed for such solution in harsh northern outdoor conditions. Together, separate pilots in different cities around Finland create a living lab ecosystem for developing and testing innovative solutions.

Performance Targets

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)	Measurement Methods
Reduced energy consumption in street lighting User acceptance of innovative, smart city solutions	{{{measurement}}}

Standards, Replicability, Scalability, and Sustainability

• Existing lighting infrastructure to be used to serve smart solutions, such as acting as a base station installation stage.
• Cloud service combines data from various data sources

Cybersecurity and Privacy

Not available at this time

Impacts

Not available at this time

Demonstration/Deployment

The project started in 2015 and finishes 2017 and has already shown promising results. Many pilots such as residential area in Raahe, bicycle route in Helsinki, public road in Salo, and augmented reliability service in Lahti are already implemented. Interactive and communicative lighting in city harbor in Lahti and schoolyard in Oulu will be finished by autumn 2017. In Tampere and Turku different piloting activities of smart city technology for various applications such as safety, traffic control and surveillance are constantly on-going with technology partners.