Telensa, a United Kingdom-based developer of wireless smart city applications, recently announced that it is working with the City of Harrisburg to trial smart city technologies including smart sensors for traffic, air quality, and waste monitoring.
“Use of smart technology to collect data could have profound benefits for the City,” Mayor Eric Papenfuse said. “I look forward to seeing the results of this important test of smart sensors using the lighting network, and hope we can see significant savings and benefits.”
In 2016, Harrisburg deployed a Telensa smart street lighting system. The city is now using the existing physical and network infrastructure to deploy additional smart technologies.
The smart city project includes CA Traffic for traffic analytics, Libelium for air quality and FarSite for waste monitoring. The data from these sensors is analyzed, combined with existing lighting data and displayed in a smart city dashboard.
Harrisburg is also prepared to test the use of Traffic Adaptive Lighting, which enables the dynamic adjustment of groups of streetlights from a central management system using traffic data collected using a radar-based sensor.
“We’re thrilled to be collaborating again and deepening our relationship with the City of Harrisburg to utilise the connected streetlight infrastructure by adding smart city applications that bring more value to the city,” Will Gibson, founder and chief commercial officer at Telensa, said. “We are excited to showcase the potential of this technology and the benefits it can bring to the citizens of Harrisburg and those of other cities around the world.”
Harrisburg previously worked with Telensa to deploy more than 4,000 connected streetlights across the city, leading to utility bill reductions of 60-70 percent.