Telensa provides smart city applications and services using lighting infrastructure. They have connected 1 in 10 UK lights and provide services for smart lighting, parking, waste management, and traffic. Their network supports both mains-powered and battery-powered devices over a wide area without connectivity costs. They are a leading partner for City Verve Manchester, the UK's flagship smart city project, and are working on integrating applications like parking, lighting, and traffic data using open standards. Selecting the right network technology is important for supporting a variety of smart city services and platforms into the future.

1. telensa.com
Smart Cities
Are they really happening?
ILP Summit 2016

2. Smart city timeline
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Smart cities – additional applications using the
lighting column2016
Integrated smart cities – fully integrated
applications bringing wide society benefits2018
Smart lighting – simple switching and
maintenance savings2006
Smart lighting – dimming, switch over to LED,
energy savings2010

3. Who are Telensa?
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1 in 10 UK lights are connected by Telensa

4. Smart city applications today - lighting
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UNB Network
- Example: Birmingham
- 1M population
- 30 base stations
- Supports mains and
battery devices
- No connectivity costs

5. Smart city applications today - parking
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Deployed over 2 years
ago
- Moscow 5000
units
- St Petersburg 5000
units
- Shanghai, Shenzen

6. Mesh and Low Power Wide Area (LPWA)
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Both have been around for 20
years
Mesh – electricity smart metering
LPWA – Internet of Things and
smart cities
Cost savings* of >£250,000 over 10 years compared to mesh
(based on 15,000 lights)
*Data taken from published Elexon figures

7. Smart city applications today - waste
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Litter monitoring
- Large customer bids
underway
- 7 year battery life
- 50% cheaper than
alternatives

8. Evolution of services IV – beacons
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Revenue generation
- Bluetooth
iBeacons/Eddystone
- Provide public service or
marketing information

9. Integrated smart city applications - traffic
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Video analytics
- Initial trial system up
and running
- Collaboration with BT
and Suffolk CC
- Integration using
Hypercat standard
Data Hub PLANET

10. City Verve Manchester
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Government competition to fund a
flagship smart city for the UK
Awarded to Manchester
Largest consortium contribution
- Cisco, BT, SAP, Telensa
Telensa leading workgroups
- Smart street lighting
- Smart parking

11. City Verve – an integrated smart city
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12. But which smart city platform do I use?
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Planet
UI
Telensa
Central System
Data API
BT Data
Hub
Cisco
CDP
Niagara Thingworx
TALQ
3rd
Party
CMS
Trial now
active Project
started
3rd Party
Lighting
Network
Lighting
dB
SCADA
Project
started
Smart City PlatformsLighting Specific Platforms

13. Hot off the presses!
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June 2016 – will see the alignment of the
major players in ETSI – a recognised
standards body
Supported by ARM,
Cisco, Accenture
Narrowband – designed for 100 000’s devices
Spread spectrum – designed for 100’s devices
Remaining a proprietary, single vendor
solution

14. Summary
• Lighting networks offer a free route to additional services
• So selecting the correct network technology is key
• Does it support wide area battery applications?
• Does it support a variety of city dashboard platforms?
• Is it based on an open standard?
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15. Jon Lewis
jl@Telensa.com
Thank you
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