The residents of Playa del Carmen will benefit from a greener, more efficient and responsive streetlight service
Mexican municipality Solidaridad has awarded a contract to Telensa to provide its smart streetlight solution to the city of Playa del Carmen on the Riviera Maya.
Appointed by Traffic Light, the municipality’s urban planning consultancy and contractor, Telensa’s smart streetlight solution will be deployed across an initial 4,000 streetlights in the municipal seat.
Environmental wellbeing
A specialist in the design and implementation of lighting solutions for cities, Traffic Light has awarded Telensa the contract to help deliver energy and operational efficiencies to the municipality, and to create savings for the city and improve environmental well-being.
Telensa’s smart streetlight software, PLANet, will feed into Traffic Light’s network operations centre (NOC) from where data analytics are used to optimise services for residents and visitors.
“Every year the population in large cities increases and the demand for services and resources grows”
Control nodes, known as ‘Telecells’ installed on each streetlight luminaire will communicate wirelessly back to the PLANet software to help provide deeper understanding of the way the municipality’s lights are performing.
In return, each luminaire can be controlled and programmed via the central software individually, as part of a group programme on a group of lights or programmed as a whole across the entire estate. As a result, according to Telensa, the 305,000 residents of Playa del Carmen will benefit from a “greener, more efficient and responsive streetlight service”.
“Our municipalities rely on us to work hard in the background for the benefit of their citizens. We were impressed by Telensa’s vast knowledge and experience which came through clearly when it was demonstrating its system,” said Gustavo Rios, founder and general manager, Traffic Light.
“[The company's] global deployments, rich-data technology and reputation as a pioneer meant it was an obvious fit for our new Playa del Carmen streetlight platform.”
Jorge Ávila, commercial manager of Signify in Mexico, added: “Every year the population in large cities increases and the demand for services and resources grows. Thanks to the authority’s vision, Traffic Light’s experience, and to our Telensa system, today we can optimise energy consumption, reduce operating costs and improve the lives of the 350,000 inhabitants of Solidaridad.”
Acquired by global lighting company Signify, Telensa provides smart streetlighting solutions helping cities, utilities and local government organisations around the world to reduce their energy consumption and carbon emissions. It has a footprint of more than two million lights from some 400 cities around the world.