Case Studies Connected Street Lighting in Los Angeles

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	Connected Street Lighting in Los Angeles

Connected Street Lighting in Los Angeles

Technology Category	Functional Applications - Remote Monitoring & Control Systems
Applicable Industries	Cities & Municipalities
Applicable Functions	Maintenance
Use Cases	Smart Lighting
Challenge	The 215,000 street lights in Los Angeles include more than 400 different styles distributed across 7,500 miles of roadway. Maintenance has traditionally depended on crews who scout the streets at night to identify outages— that, and calls from citizens. The bureau handles 40,000 such calls per year. They needed to find new technology that could improve customer service, make people feel safer, and create a more livable city. Read More
About Customer	Los Angeles Read More
Customer Name	Los Angeles Read More
Solution	After piloting systems from several different managers, street lighting directory Ed Ebrahimian selected Philips CityTouch, “the best product at the lowest price.” CityTouch capabilities that helped decide Ebrahimian included remote monitoring, automatic notification of outages and other events, easy installation and simple commissioning, accurate lighting asset information, integration with the bureau’s existing management systems, and futureproofing through software as a service delivery. Technology Deployed: • CityTouch software • CityTouch connector node Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Functional Applications - Remote Monitoring & Control Systems

Applicable Industries

Cities & Municipalities

Applicable Functions

Maintenance

Use Cases

Smart Lighting

Challenge

The 215,000 street lights in Los Angeles include more than 400 different styles distributed across 7,500 miles of roadway. Maintenance has traditionally depended on crews who scout the streets at night to identify outages— that, and calls from citizens. The bureau handles 40,000 such calls per year. They needed to find new technology that could improve customer service, make people feel safer, and create a more livable city.

About Customer

Los Angeles

Customer Name

Los Angeles

Solution

After piloting systems from several different managers, street lighting directory Ed Ebrahimian selected Philips CityTouch, “the best product at the lowest price.”

CityTouch capabilities that helped decide Ebrahimian included remote monitoring, automatic notification of outages and other events, easy installation and simple commissioning, accurate lighting asset information, integration with the bureau’s existing management systems, and futureproofing through software as a service delivery.

Technology Deployed:
• CityTouch software
• CityTouch connector node

Benefit #1	Ability to remotely manage more than 100,000 street lights to create a more livable city

Benefit #1

Ability to remotely manage more than 100,000 street lights to create a more livable city

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Connected Street Lighting in Los Angeles

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