Lighting Grid Network to deploy 5G and improve city services

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City of Tampere, Finland

BrightSites uses the City’s streetlights network to deliver city-wide connectivity, together with Edzcom. It allows the city to create the most sustainable society using the power of technology.

"Tampere's ambition is to create the most sustainable society using the power of digitalization and technology. We are building a human centric society that benefits unrivalled opportunities for our citizens and businesses. It’s a society that lives on real time data driven actionable insights.

We have partnered with two industry leading companies Signify and Edzcom to create the foundation of such a society. With their technology and services, Tampere aims to achieve the leap forward in its ambition to create the society we strive for."

Teppo Rantanen, Executive Director, City of Tampere

The Opportunity

Tampere’s ambition is to create the most sustainable society using the power of digitalization and technology. It is using and testing diverse new technologies to advance on their digital agenda, aiming to improve digital services and provide a highly connected environment. The ultimate objective of the city is to become a human centric city and the use of connected solutions shall accelerate this goal.

The Solution

The City of Tampere introduced the BrightSites solution and embedded a wireless gigabit network in the lighting fixtures, creating a neutral host network that offers the full granularity of the lighting grid, as opposed to the more limited fiber point-of-presence. It accelerated the deployment of their Smart City agenda with multiple use cases on a single platform.

Read the press release from Signify here