Cities are looking for a way to reduce lighting expenses while at the same time improve operating efficiencies and minimize upfront investment. One of the common ways Cities increase the operational efficiency of city-wide lighting implementations is by connecting the lighting and other sensors with Cisco secure IoT networks, and controlling the lights from a single dashboard.

Without network connected lighting, cities and operators have several challenges, including: Lack of proper visibility to the performance of lights typically provided by multiple vendors Minimal control capability, such as dimming automation Inability to leverage the lighting point of presence to provide additional city services or ingest new data streams Inability to manage and control the lifecycle of individual lamps from a central platform Cisco IPv6 mesh technology based on the 802.15.4 standard creates a secure, scalable, and reliable networking infrastructure that provides connectivity to a range of IoT endpoints including CIMCON Street lights. CIMCON's mesh connected lights are then be integrated into Cisco Kinetic for Cities, which provides a single pane of glass to manage data from lighting, parking, traffic, and waste management for cities.

Customers can now monitor the movement of people and vehicles, as well as light streets and other areas. Edge analytics, built in to the network, determines location and movements.

Data from these sensors and lights is ingested by Cisco Kinetic for Cities Cloud, where customers and partners can leverage the robust data models and associated APIs to report on and build applications against the data.
Capabilities employed
Industrial networking Cisco IPv6 Mesh Docs
Cisco Connected Grid Router (CGR) Overview
Cisco Aggregation Services Router (ASR) Overview
Thing connections Cisco Kinetic for Cities Learn
CIMCON Lighting Controller Overview
Service management Cisco Field Network Director (FND) Docs • Learn • Lab
CIMCON Lighting Management System Overview