Smart Cities Expo in Barcelona ‘Profoundly Enriching’
A lighting pole is no longer just a lighting pole, but a platform for a range of sensors which can deliver and respond to...
Will Street Lights Become the Location of Choice for Sensors?
By Sara El Feky, Karl Göransson, Walter Longwe and Graham Mawer
There are more than 300 million street lights in the world and they are...
How to use asset tracking to improve infrastructure maintenance
Often an under-utilised resource, asset tracking should be a key component of an organisation’s management strategy, providing benefits for cost, efficiency and performance.
In a...
Zhaga Smart City Sensor Awards Winners Announced
The global lighting industry’s Zhaga Consortium has recently announced the winners of its inaugural Smart City Sensor Awards.
Zhaga has recognised that nothing beats the...
Making decisions today for a better tomorrow: the role of smart lighting in urban...
By Schreder
As urbanisation accelerates, with over half of the world’s population now residing in urban areas and projections indicating that 68% will live in...
Mindil Beach Sunset Market: Shuffle poles integrate light, CCTV, loudspeakers and WIFI for an...
By Schreder
Mindil Beach Sunset Market, Darwin's largest market, is famous for its stunning sunsets over the Timor Sea. Since 1987, it has grown organically...
Virtual Fibre: A Game Changer in Connectivity
CCTV, public WiFi, mobile telephony and a wide variety of smart city infrastructure are all data hungry and getting hungrier. A key challenge for...
Growing Threat to Public Lighting from Cable Theft
Cable theft is emerging as a critical threat to public lighting networks worldwide and is being driven by record copper prices. This crime is...
A Stocktake of Australia’s Progress Towards Smart Street Lighting
When IPWEA first started its Street Lighting & Smart Controls Program in 2016, about 6.5% of Australia’s 2.3 million street lights were LEDs while...
Introduction to Automated Vehicles
IPWEA Australasia President Rita Excell was recently invited to present in an American Public Works Association webinar on Automated Vehicles.
Excell, who is also...
