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As IoT adoption rises , we hear from Phil Beecher , CEO and President of Wi-SUN Alliance , about the current use of Smart Streetlights and how they can benefit residents and communities .
COULD SMART STREETLIGHTING OFFER A SOLUTION FOR PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE CHALLENGES ?
T he UN has revealed that by 2050 more than two-thirds of the global population will be living in urban areas . Subjected to ever-greater pressures of the human population , it means that Smart Technologies will be integral to the successful functioning of urban environments , now and in the future .
This level of growth is creating a host of difficult challenges for councils and city authorities and urban planners . From the amount of traffic on the roads , rising carbon emissions and poor air quality , to increasingly hard-to-manage urban waste and a growing strain on utilities , huge stresses are being placed on critical public infrastructure and services that simply were not designed to cater to such volumes of people .
However , technology is helping to tackle many of these issues and has the potential to do much more .
Between highways and pedestrianised streets , many of the urban environments that we frequent are now leveraging the Internet of Things ( IoT ) to facilitate remote monitoring , management and control of critical assets , generating huge streams of real-time data that can be used to provide critical insights and actionable information . For Smart City planners , IoT is becoming a top priority for this reason .
In a ‘ state of the nation ’ report The Journey to IoT Maturity published by Wi-SUN in 2022 , a study of IT decision makers from UK and US IoT
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