Press Release – October, 2024 – Paris, France
Actility, a global leader in LoRaWAN® connectivity, has partnered with Flashnet, a leading smart lighting solutions provider, to launch the inteliLIGHT® LoRaWAN Smart Street Lighting Demo Kit. This innovative solution combines Flashnet’s smart street lighting technology with Actility’s LoRaWAN networks, providing cities with a powerful tool to enhance energy efficiency, reduce operational costs, and pave the way for future smart city applications.
The inteliLIGHT® LoRaWAN Smart Street Lighting Demo Kit is designed to revolutionize how cities manage their street lighting infrastructure. Through the seamless integration of inteliLIGHT® controllers with Actility’s LoRaWAN network, municipalities can address common challenges such as energy inefficiency, high maintenance costs, and rising carbon emissions. The solution empowers cities with real-time monitoring and control, optimizing lighting systems to significantly reduce energy consumption by up to 40%, lower maintenance costs by 42%, and extend lamp lifespan by 30%.
The inteliLIGHT® Demo Kit includes key components that deliver a comprehensive, scalable solution. It features inteliLIGHT® controllers for individual or segmented street lighting control, Kerlink’s Wirnet iStation v1.5 Outdoor LoRaWAN® Gateways for robust connectivity, and the Actility Network Server, which provides real-time insights through dashboards with network data and alarm management. The kit also includes inteliLIGHT® StreetLight Control software, enabling cities to monitor, manage, and optimize their street lighting with unparalleled visibility and efficiency.
Cities worldwide are grappling with the management of vast lighting networks that often suffer from inefficient energy usage and high operational costs. The inteliLIGHT® solution directly addresses these issues by offering real-time fault detection, smart scheduling, and 360° control over lighting systems. This allows municipalities to drastically reduce their environmental footprint while extending the longevity of their infrastructure. The scalable, TALQ-certified solution is also designed to support future upgrades, ensuring that cities can seamlessly expand their smart city infrastructure as their needs evolve.
In addition to providing immediate operational benefits, the inteliLIGHT® LoRaWAN Smart Street Lighting solution helps cities meet their long-term sustainability goals. By leveraging LoRaWAN’s low-power, wide-area communication capabilities, the solution delivers efficient, real-time data while minimizing energy consumption. This future-proof system supports the integration of additional smart city applications, allowing for smooth upgrades as cities enhance their urban infrastructure.
Actility and Flashnet’s partnership offers cities a comprehensive, future-ready solution for urban lighting management. The inteliLIGHT® LoRaWAN Smart Street Lighting solution optimizes energy use, improves operational efficiency, and minimizes environmental impact, all while laying the foundation for future smart city integrations. This collaboration empowers cities to enhance sustainability, reduce costs, and improve urban living through advanced lighting management technology.
With the combined expertise of Actility and Flashnet, urban areas can unlock a smarter, more sustainable future, addressing critical challenges such as high energy consumption, operational inefficiencies, and the need for scalable, future-proof technology. This partnership drives urban transformation and positions cities for long-term success in achieving their smart city objectives.
“At Actility, we believe in the transformative power of IoT for urban infrastructure. We’re proud to collaborate with Flashnet, combining our LoRaWAN infrastructure with their advanced street lighting technology to offer cities a powerful, scalable solution that optimizes urban lighting management and drives sustainability.”
Flashnet is a global leader in smart street lighting technology, integrating cutting-edge IT, communications, and energy management technologies into hardware and software solutions. With over 1,000,000 streetlights controlled worldwide, Flashnet’s innovations enhance urban infrastructure, benefiting more than 400 million people globally. Committed to driving efficiency, sustainability, and innovation, Flashnet continues to shape the future of smarter, more connected cities.
Actility, one of the co-inventors of LoRaWAN® technology and a founding member of the LoRa Alliance, is the leader in industrial-grade low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) connectivity and IoT tracking solutions. Actility’s ThingPark™ platform, which supports multi-radio connectivity (LoRaWAN®, NB-IoT, LTE-M), powers the majority of public networks and numerous private and enterprise networks worldwide. Through its subsidiary Abeeway, Actility offers patented ultra-low power, multi-radio trackers and comprehensive indoor and outdoor geolocation services. Additionally, the ThingPark Market boast the largest catalog of LoRaWAN® devices, gateways, and solutions available.
Learn more about the LoRaWAN technology by downloading the Actility “What is LoRaWAN” white paper