Lighting Control Utility for the City
The City IQ system collects real-time data while supporting a wide range of open data APIs and smart city applications that will help address some of the city's challenges, including the Economic Development Office, the San Diego Police Department and the Transportation Engineering and Operations Department. The department is already using City IQ data to improve traffic flow and pedestrian safety, as well as to implement new public services.
For example, increased computing power can make the lights to help drivers optimize travel routes, find open parking spaces, traffic enforcement and even can tell when the vehicle is illegally parked.
Austin Ashe, general manager of Current's Smart City, said that this is only the beginning, as most of the data collected by the Street Light Internet of Things (IoT) network will be released publicly, and the city allows and encourages software developers to use the data to build applications to help Local residents and visitors.
Currently emerging applications include applications that identify the quietest walking routes (for those who want to talk while walking); "digital cane" apps designed to help the visually impaired cross the road with traffic and location data; and high Use the history of crosswalks frequently; and identify methods of interesting events in real time to find hotspots by tracking how pedestrians gather or move forward.
The lighting network can also be connected to the city's existing Shot Spotter network, which automatically locates sources and monitors sound in real time, and many municipalities use Shot Spotter to increase the efficiency of law enforcement. The addition of smart street lights can increase the coverage of Shot Spotter from 10 square kilometers (about 4 square miles) to a wider area.
Street in the city can be deployed using a sensor network, by recognizing the voice of broken glass or a car accident, a timely alert the police in a dangerous situation; application by means of a gunshot detection, it may be in less than a minute through a precise location Information captures more than 90% of shooting incidents to help first aid personnel.
Austin Ashe, GE's current general manager of smart cities, says that the way applications and City IQ come together, like the app store does for smartphones, saves time and money for the city - creating entrepreneurship, creating jobs, creating revenue and solve the problem.
San Diego is now said to have the world's largest city lights of Things sensor networks, involving cooperation GE, AT & T and Qualcomm and other public and private sector. The city is constantly striving to operate the city's intelligence, and recently won the 2018 Smart 50 Award.