Smart street lighting, signage, videoprotection: the Smart City by ENGIE

Making the city of tomorrow energy-efficient, turning it into a smart city, is one of ENGIE’s ambitions for its local authority customers.

The smart city, at the heart of all the issues

By 2050, 7 out of 10 people will live in urban areas ⁽¹⁾. To meet the challenges of this large-scale urban development, cities need to take into account the weight of street lighting in their energy consumption, expected to increase from 20 to 40% in the next 30 years ⁽²⁾. Digital technologies along with the use of LEDs could make it possible to generate energy savings of 60% ⁽²⁾.

A better quality of life thanks to the smart city

Smart street lighting contributes to the quality of life of a city’s residents, offering security and comfort, while at the same time enhancing the architectural heritage of their city. The lights themselves contribute to the urban aesthetic sought by elected representatives and their fellow citizens.

Smart street lighting infrastructures also create a veritable nervous system for the urban space, made ever smarter thanks to digital technology. This system, which tightly interlinks the city’s spaces, is an ideal support into which WiFi, 5G, videoprotection equipment or air quality sensors can be integrated, with perfect compatibility.

Finally, local authorities expect these infrastructures to be more reliable and more energy-efficient, to help them control their operating costs and respect the environment. Reducing electricity consumption, supplying green energy, reducing light pollution and architectural integration are all aspects that need to be taken into account in terms of environmental impact.

ENGIE, the global market leader in smart street lighting

We have a built up a broad range of expertise hinged around smart street lighting, connectivity systems, traffic regulation and urban safety:

-   Outdoor smart street lighting: networks and lights in all types of public spaces and roads
-   Customised building lighting, lighting of sports facilities
-   High-energy performance lighting solutions (LEDs, etc.) and adaptation to usages: control of lighting duration according to neighbourhoods and sites, modulation of light intensity according to time of year or place (school outings, festive events, etc.).
-   Implementation of smart management systems (remote management, supervision, hypervision, smart lamp-posts, smart lighting, light bubbles, individual management of lighting at the light point, detection of available parking spaces, real-time monitoring of traffic conditions, etc.).
-   Traffic signage networks
-   Videoprotection equipment combined with the smart street light network
-   WiFi hotspots integrated into the smart street light network

Our smart street light and signage activity in figures

Our references

Montargis (France)

Renovation of street lighting under a lease with option to purchase contract

Montargis, the second biggest town in the Loiret department after Orléans, wants to offer residents and visitors convivial places to meet, take a break and communicate, and a better quality of life. ENGIE Solution proposes to improve street lighting, replacing 2,657 light points with LED bulbs. A €1.5 million lease contract with a 5-year purchase option. This lighting replacement will enable the town of Montargis to make energy savings of 70%.

Niteroi (Brazil)

The Livin’ solution to regulate urban traffic

In Brazil, the city of Niteroi in the Rio conurbation is facing one of the major challenges that fast-growing metropolises need to address: road traffic congestion. To improve traffic flow and give its residents a better quality of life, the city has embarked on an ambitious automated, real-time smart urban traffic management programme with the Livin' solution, developed by ENGIE, to bring the Smart city to life.

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Uberlandia (Brazil)

Modernisation of street lighting thanks to a 20-year partnership

As part of a 20-year public-private partnership, ENGIE is modernising, improving the efficiency of, developing, operating and managing the maintenance of the city’s street lighting network. The partnership schedules the modernisation of more than 87 street lighting units with LED technology, generating energy savings of at least 49.39%.

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