Smart Infrastructure
The smart technology has the ability to examine the larger amount of raw data and convert them into useful information. So, the collected data can help the city to stay alerted for the future uncertainty and plan the city’s sustainable development future well in advance. In today’s time, implementing smart cities that leverage IoT and connected technology help promote economic development, improve infrastructure and environment, enhance transportation systems, and optimize costs of managing public assets.Connected technologies and IoT solutions for smart cities play important roles in transforming cities. Implementing a smart city with IoT and connected technology helps enhance the quality, performance, interactivity of urban services and optimize resources that reduce costs. The global market for smart urban infrastructure in smart cities includes advanced connected streets, smart parking, smart lighting, and other transportation innovations. Here’s how they work:
- Smart Street Lighting
The more than 350 million bulbs that light up the world consume a humongous amount of energy, which, many estimates put at about 19 percent of world’s energy consumed. These lighting costs are essential and not avoidable, though they cost governments roughly Euro 3 billion every year. Though LED lights are gradually replacing CFL and incandescent lamps, more than three fourths of the existing streetlamps are of more than 25 years old.
Most of these old vintage streetlamps are ON throughout the night, even when there is no one around.
Therefore, with the aim of reducing their carbon footprint, while saving both money and electricity, an increasing number of cities around the world are opting in for smart technologies to prevent unnecessary wastage of lights, by means of dimming or automatically switching ON/OFF these lights at night.
Safer, smarter, more efficient
Advantages of Smart street lighting:
- Deploy faster
- Reduce maintenance costs
- Enhance public safety
- Aid economic development
- Enhance customer service
- Conserve energy
2. Smart Parking Management:
Smart parking management system can be used to find the vacant location for a vehicle at different public places. Smart Parking’s In-Ground Vehicle Detection Sensors are core technologies, playing a key part in the Smart Parking solution that is revolutionizing how drivers in the malls and city centers can find an available parking space. Wireless sensors are embedded into parking spaces, transmitting data on the timing and duration of the space used via local signal processors into a central parking management application. Smart Parking reduces congestion, decreases vehicle emissions, lowers enforcement costs and cuts driver stress. For effective deployment of smart parking technologies, each device needs to have a reliable connectivity with the cloud servers.
3. Connected Charging Stations:
Smart infrastructure also includes implementing charging stations in parking systems, city fleets, shopping malls and buildings, airports, and bus stations across the city. Electronic vehicle (EV) charging platforms can be integrated with IoT to streamline the operations of EV charging and addresses the impact of the power grid. Smart EV charging is especially beneficial, even essential, for the energy market. But good things come in plenty: smartness is profitable for the electric car drivers, charging station owners and charging network operators as well. Benefit from smart charging are: Find available charging points, Charge faster, Charge faster, Avoid arguments with neighbors, Save money and the environment.
