How to make street lights more efficient and sustainable?
With more and more cities adopting smart city technologies, developers and city planners are finding new ways to transform existing utilities and city services such as lighting, waste management, and public safety, and making it more sustainable. Smart street lights were one of the first devices that revolutionized outdoor lighting systems. Increasingly, it seems like the next generation of smart street lights will serve as the foundation for complex systems and utilities that could easily transform the urban areas and make them safer and sustainable. When talking about India, several cities are extensively illuminated with street lights at night. They are a significant source of power consumption. Thus, making it extremely important to analyze how energy efficient our streetlights are. As per the United Nations report, India is estimated to add 416 million urban dwellers by the end of 2050. With the growing urbanization and migration to metropolitan cities, a strong focus has be...