San Diego will add 1,000 smart sensors, LED street light efficiency increased by 20%

The city of San Diego announced last year that it is building the world's largest smart city IoT platform and using CityIQ solutions developed by General Electric (GE) to improve parking, traffic and public safety on city streets.

The CityIQ solution is a smart city digital infrastructure launched by GE and based on Intel technology that provides sensors (or "smart nodes") that can be installed in street lights.

Recently, the city promised to add another 1000 CityIQ sensors and add a lighting control utility interface to increase the efficiency of LED street lights by 20%.

All in all, the project's large-scale digital infrastructure will include 4,200 new CityIQ sensors (3,200 planned last year) installed on 14,000 LED street lights. Building your own Urban IoT by installing Intel Atom processors, cameras, microphones, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, acoustic sensors and CityIQ sensor nodes that measure temperature, air pressure, humidity and even magnetic fields on street lights ). Part of the collected data was uploaded to GE's Predix cloud via AT&T's LTE network.

The program is expected to save the city $3.6 million in energy and maintenance costs annually.

GE is currently working with US data carriers AT&T and Intel on the project. As a data carrier, AT&T provides highly secure and reliable networking services. Intel IoT technology provides advanced computing, processing, and edge analysis capabilities to help extract metadata and integrate with sensors through secure cloud connections.

San Diego will add 1,000 smart sensors, LED street light efficiency increased by 20%

The city of San Diego announced last year that it is building the world's largest smart city IoT platform and using CityIQ solutions developed by General Electric (GE) to improve parking, traffic and public safety on city streets.

The CityIQ solution is a smart city digital infrastructure launched by GE and based on Intel technology that provides sensors (or "smart nodes") that can be installed in street lights.

Recently, the city promised to add another 1000 CityIQ sensors and add a lighting control utility interface to increase the efficiency of LED street lights by 20%.

All in all, the project's large-scale digital infrastructure will include 4,200 new CityIQ sensors (3,200 planned last year) installed on 14,000 LED street lights. Building your own Urban IoT by installing Intel Atom processors, cameras, microphones, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, acoustic sensors and CityIQ sensor nodes that measure temperature, air pressure, humidity and even magnetic fields on street lights ). Part of the collected data was uploaded to GE's Predix cloud via AT&T's LTE network.

The program is expected to save the city $3.6 million in energy and maintenance costs annually.

GE is currently working with US data carriers AT&T and Intel on the project. As a data carrier, AT&T provides highly secure and reliable networking services. Intel IoT technology provides advanced computing, processing, and edge analysis capabilities to help extract metadata and integrate with sensors through secure cloud connections.