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In an era where urban efficiency, safety, and inclusivity are paramount, Signify’s BrightSites solution introduces a transformative approach to build city infrastructure and unlocks the potential of existing streetlights, turning them into beacons of connectivity. BrightSites acts as a backbone for smart city initiatives, supporting applications such as public Wi-Fi, traffic optimization, public safety, smart waste management, and pollution monitoring, enhancing the overall quality of life for citizens.
Discover how BrightSites can help your city achieve greater efficiency, safety, and digital inclusivity with:
Join Khalid Aziz, SVP and Managing Director of the BrightSites Business Unit in Signify along with Barnaby Dickinson, Founder of Ontix and Senior Advisor to Signify to talk about cities digitalization trends and how Signify can help cities in the smart city journey reshaping the fabric of our communities for a smarter, more connected future.
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Khalid Aziz
SVP & Managing director
BrightSites BusinessUnit, Signify
Khalid Aziz is a seasoned executive currently serving as the Senior Vice President and Managing Director of BrightSites, a transformative business unit within Signify. In this role, Khalid spearheads the convergence of outdoor lighting infrastructure with broadband connectivity, driving innovation and shaping the future of smart urban environments.
With a wealth of experience in global ventures and business development, Khalid previously held the position of Managing Director of Global Ventures at Signify, where he played a pivotal role in incubating and scaling the next generation of businesses within the company.
Barnaby founded Ontix, a UK-based wireless infrastructure company in 2017. He worked successfully in virtually every management position in the company, including finance, product, business development and operations.
Barnaby spent three years engaged on property strategy at Cornerstone, the UK’s largest mobile infrastructure company. At Cornerstone, Barnaby evaluated the opportunity and developed the strategy for Cornerstone entrance into small cell infrastructure market. Barnaby led a successful bid to secure long term exclusive rights to deploy telecommunications equipment on lighting infrastructure in the City of London, securing MNO orders for an initial deployment of 200 small cells and 150 Wi-Fi access points and creating the densest outdoor urban small cell network in the UK.
Q1.The Interact city platform still uses 2G/M2M communication with limited data communication. Does Signify BrightSites involve a change in the technology used? can the costs be broken down?
Answer: No. There is no conflict to Interact City platform. The BrightSites solution enhances the capability to Multi Gigabit transfers for broadband applications.
Q2. How are owners of lights pricing the allowance of their luminaires being used for enabling high bandwidth telecoms? Are they charging fees up front, or perhaps asking for ongoing revenue share? Any indicative per pole value numbers?
Answer: Cities and Municipalities do not charge for the swap of the luminaire to the broadband luminaire. They would charge for 5G small cells mounted on light poles. The rate is monthly or yearly and varies per city and country.
Q3. Complimenting you for taking up the issue of Street Lighting, how do you see the importance of the technology from Road Safety point of view?
Answer: Extremely relevant for Road Safety as it allows to deploy sensors on demand and much more proliferated manner to enhance street safety infrastructure. Compared to current costs associated, we are referring to factor of 10 reduction in cost and speed.
Q4. How we, as Indian Society of Lighting Engineers can help you in your mission?
Answer: Please extend the awareness as much as possible of the fact that Lighting Infrastructure is underutilized if only used for functional lighting. Technology innovations today can transform it to a ubiquitous data platform that scales on demand.
Q5. How does one decide the communication protocol for particular smart lighting solution in city
Answer: The BrightSites solution is based on IEEE 802.11ad technology and hence industry standard.
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