City

The future of your city

An IoT-ready smart lighting system that improves
city services and safety
Find out more about Interact City
www.interact-lighting.com/city
 Cologne, Germany

The new era

of the city
Over half of the world’s population lives in urban Smart cities: the way forward
centers¹, and this figure is set to rise.
How can we successfully navigate these challenges?
This presents cities with major challenges
For many decision-makers, the answer is smart
globally. Rapid urbanization and population
cities.
growth are putting more pressure on resources.
This is reflected in the environmental impact In an increasingly digitized world, it’s clear that
of cities; despite occupying a mere 2% of the technology will significantly impact how we manage,
world’s landmass, their footprint is staggering. run, and grow our cities. This has spurred a rapid
Cities consume over two thirds of the world’s increase in smart city initiatives and interest in the
energy² and account for more than 70% of potential for smart cities in recent years.
global CO2 emissions³.
Smart cities can offer important benefits, including:
Cities must now reduce their environmental
impact while adapting to the needs of the • More efficient city planning and operations
people who live there. Cities need to become • Improved city services
safe living spaces that facilitate high quality of
• Increased sense of safety and security
life for citizens.
• Significant energy savings and reduced costs
¹ World Health Organization: https://www.who.int/gho/urban_health/en/
• Enhanced city sustainability potential
² C40 Cities: https://www.c40.org/why_cities
³ https://new.unhabitat.org/topic/climate-change • Enabling the community to engage with data
from the Internet of Things (IoT)

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 Get more value from something
you already own - your lighting
To create a smart city you need a city-wide
infrastructure. Fortunately, street lights are found in
abundance all over public spaces, meaning they can
easily play a role in the success of smart cities.
The right lighting is essential at night for proper
visibility and safety. It can have a profound effect on
the attractiveness of a city, which in turn impacts
tourism. But the role of lighting is evolving far beyond
illumination.

“
Switching to LED lighting can offer energy savings
between 50-70%. And the potential doesn’t stop
there. By pairing LED with smart controls, cities can
realize energy savings of up to 80%.
Connected lighting enables the use of applications
that can save energy in numerous ways, like accurate I wanted to plan for the city of
on/off switching, dimming control, light level
Albany, New York, USA
management and integration with other systems to
the future. We needed to ensure
enable condition-based lighting. It allows cities to fully that we’re investing now for
enjoy the benefits of LED.
generations to come.”
Street lighting is everywhere that people need
to go. When connected, it can serve as the ideal
Kathy Sheehan
Creating a smart city infrastructure for distributing IoT capabilities across
a city, and as an integration point for new applications
and services.
Mayor, Albany, United States

Making the most of smart city opportunities • Improve the city infrastructure
while navigating technical, legislative and political
challenges is a balancing act. • Demonstrate technology leadership (e.g.
leveraging technology for more rapid
Limited budgets and funding. Resource constraints. responses to complaints)
Siloed infrastructures. The pressure to solve more
immediate problems rather than focusing on longer- • Enhance engagements between citizens and
term transformative goals. These are just some of the city
the challenges getting in the way of creating a • Save taxpayer dollars, improve operational
smart city. efficiency and create energy savings
But despite these difficulties, city leaders are • Access grants and private sector funding via
expected to deliver results. They are often called public-private partnerships (PPPs) to attract
upon to: new citizens and business
• Continually improve citizen services (e.g. provide • Manage the expectations and ambition of key
inner city parking, reduce traffic, create a stakeholders
healthier environment)

• Enhance the feeling of public safety by reducing

crime rates and accidents

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Welcome to Interact City Your smart city building blocks Interact City utilizes powerful software
applications which can transform city
luminaires into valuable sources of data.

You can then share the data you collect with

other city management systems to analyze
Interact City is a connected LED lighting
and gain new insights into your operations.
management system which helps you improve
services, enhance safety, beautify public spaces,
encourage civic pride and increase energy What Interact City can
efficiency. The connected LED lighting system and
management software enable you to remotely
do for you
manage, monitor and control all city lighting, from Lighting asset management
roads and streets, to sidewalks and crossings, and • Control and monitor lighting remotely
Lighting asset management software gives you full visibility into your lighting
parks and plazas, all from one single dashboard. Plus,
• Set appropriate lighting schedules to infrastructure. Automatic fault detection alerts you to issues for quick response
the savings you make can be reinvested into future
deliver the right light when and where it's and minimal downtime. Data can be used to make informed decisions and
projects.
needed optimize lighting performance. Manage lighting-related workflows from an
intuitive application and view data from a centralized dashboard.
Interact City is also compatible with your existing • Override schedules manually in the event
lighting infrastructure, allowing you to integrate it of incidents and emergencies
with a smart city dashboard and other applications
like noise and air quality monitoring, incident • Identify lighting failures through real-time
detection and more, via open APIs. These APIs make fault notifications
it easy to respond to the challenges of the city, • Support sensors that collect both lighting Energy optimization
improve liveability and create a more attractive and non-lighting related data, which can be
urban environment. Overall, Interact City helps you Optimize street lighting performance and accurately measure energy usage in
used for further analytics and use cases
to forge a unique city identity capable of attracting real-time. Full control of your city lighting lets you reduce CO₂ emissions, make
more visitors and investment. • Achieve energy savings of up to 80% over progress toward your sustainability goals, and lower energy usage and costs.
conventional lighting Those savings can be reinvested into other areas of your city’s infrastructure.

• Visualize lighting assets in one dashboard

• Export lighting data to smart city

dashboards Scene management
Remotely adapt city lighting to suit time of night, season, or event. Turn lighting up
if there’s a traffic incident or a crime. Dim to 30% when the streets are empty late
at night. Use sensors on the light poles to detect activity, keeping your citizens
safe and comfortable – easily turning parks and plazas into livable spaces.

Sensors
Turn every street light luminaire into a city sentinel. Outdoor sensors which
detect motion/presence, tilt, vibration, ambient temperature, noise and others,
can be attached to a luminaire fitted with the ZHAGA Book 18 push-and-twist
lock socket interface. The sensing functions can be remotely configured and
data can also be sent directly to the Interact City application.*

* Check sensor availability with you local Signify representative.

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How it works
Smart street lighting is part of the smart city Through this integration, the customer is able to SR, D4i and Flexible group
environment. By integrating smart street lighting extract, analyze and utilize the data generated from Future-ready ZD4i certified and individual
into a central dashboard, it enables the lighting to various systems like transportation, environment or for sensors luminaires, light point
communicate with other smart city applications such traffic. This benefits all stakeholders across the whole nodes & sensors
as smart parking, waste management and traffic range of municipal services. system
control.

Optimize
communications Suitable for
Luminaire
with Cellular new & retrofit
agnostic
and RF Mesh projects
networks
On-premise
server

Available for RF Mesh

& Cabinet Systems

Group cabinet
Open APIs to connect M2M Communications
• Cellular network
to Smart City Dashboard

Smart City
Dashboard

Camera Traffic Lighting

management* system* management NEMA ANSI
C136.41 or Zhaga
Book 18 socket

Individual Light Point Individual Light Point

• Cellular networks • RF Mesh networks
(2G/3G/4G M1/NBIoT*) (sub-GHz)
Zhaga Book
• LoRAWAN networks* 18 socket
*In consideration

* Third party vendor

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State-of-the-art
technology in your hands
IT and network security Developing applications
We take system security very seriously. Interact Interact City uses standardized data interfaces
employs a number of measures to safeguard data and open APIs to enable integration with existing
integrity and network security. city management systems. We are continuously
developing future applications that extend beyond
To ensure that scheduling and control commands the lighting ecosystem using a combination of
are executed properly all network communications sensor technology, data sharing, and platform-
are encrypted from end to end. Only registered level integrations.
devices can communicate with the system, and two-
factor authentication prevents unauthorized third Each application is designed to be scalable and
parties gaining access or tampering with data during future-ready. Partners and third parties can also
transmission. All collected data is regularly backed up use the Interact City APIs to develop new smart
and encrypted. city applications using the data collected via the
connected lighting system.
Our policies and processes are aligned with global
standards such as ISO/IEC 2700x—Information Security www.developer.interact-lighting.com
Management Systems (ISMS) and the ISA/IEC 62443
standards suite for product development. We are the
first lighting company to be certified to IEC 62443-4-
1. The IEC 62443-4-1 is the Security Certification for
the product development process which ensures that
all identified security requirements are implemented,
verified, tested, and documented with traceability.
Our business processes are internally and externally
audited on a regular basis.

www.signify.com/global/security-and-privacy-
statement-for-connected-products

Ecosystem partners
We are constantly expanding our ecosystem
partner network. We currently work with partners
including Axis, SAP, Cisco and Ruckus on application
developments in these specific areas:
• Motion and presence sensing
• Air quality monitoring
• Weather monitoring
• Traffic monitoring
• Traffic incident detection
• Road surface monitoring, e.g. extreme weather
conditions
• Noise monitoring for incident detection, e.g.
sudden loud noises
• Intrusion and zone crossing detection
• Personal safety, e.g. emergency panic buttons
• Parking violations

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Street lighting for the Interact City powers a
people, of the people, Software applications used:
smart transformation Software applications used:

and by the people Jakarta, Indonesia

Scene management Scene management
New York State
The vision

The project, a significant milestone in Jakarta’s

The vision
Lighting asset management ongoing transformation into a smart city, involved Lighting asset management
Growing urbanization is forcing mayors and upgrading 90,000 street lights to energy-efficient
municipal leaders to confront a host of economic, LED and connecting them with remote management
environmental and social issues. Smart Street software in just 7 months. This made it one of the
Lighting NY is a collaboration between the fastest street lighting retrofits to date. Subsequent
New York Power Authority and various Energy optimization phases bring the number of upgraded street lights Energy optimization
municipalities in upstate New York, with the to 150,000, all centrally controlled and managed by
goal of converting 500,000 street lights to Interact City. It is the largest smart street lighting
LED by 2025. The program demonstrates the project in Southeast Asia.
important role connected lighting can play
in building smart city infrastructures. Project details Project details
The solution

The Interact City software installation meant

The solution
Energy savings can reach Jakarta could upgrade approximately 50% of its More than 150,000 connected
The mayors of Rochester, Albany, and White Plains up to 70% lighting by replacing inefficient mercury-vapor LED street lights
are already seeing the benefits brought about lamps with high quality, energy-efficient LEDs. It
by the Smart Street Lighting NY program. Where was also able to control and monitor its new street
Interact City has been installed, carbon emissions lights remotely and generate new insight into the
Innovative pricing model grants Supports Jakarta’s
have been greatly reduced, citizens have reported operation and optimization of a key city resource.
financial freedom transformation into
feeling safer at night, and the infrastructure has a smart city
been laid for future developments — all without
breaking the bank thanks to an innovative and
tailored pricing model. Connected lighting infrastructure
can host new IoT capabilities for The world’s fastest street
smart city deployments lighting retrofit and remote
management project to date

“ I wanted to plan for the city

of the future. We needed to
ensure that we’re investing
“ We are convinced that
smart connected lighting
and Interact City software
will help us reduce our
energy expenses and
now for generations to come." 
improve public services.”
Kathy Sheehan, Mayor of Albany, New York
DKI Jakarta, Government Office

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Interact City 's global presence As you can see, Interact City has customers across the world, from New York to
Jakarta. With more than 2,000 project sites and over 2 million connected light
points in 50+ countries, we’re growing year after year.

To find out more about our other stories, visit us at:

www.interact-lighting.com/city

Here are some countries already benefitting from Interact City:

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Cardiff, United Kingdom Madrid, Spain Tilburg, the Netherlands Kunshan, China Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Badajoz, Spain Lombok, Indonesia Manchester, United Kingdom Eindhoven, the Netherlands Malacca, Malaysia Citta Sant Angelo, Italy
Barcelona, Spain London, United Kingdom Markham, Canada Trafford, United Kingdom Sala, Sweden Szczecin, Poland
Bergen, Norway Los Angeles, USA Pune, India Warrington, United Kingdom Canary Islands, Spain Singapore
Bergisch Gladbach, Germany Rogaland, Norway Scotland, United Kingdom Wigan, United Kingdom Rochester, United States

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www.interact-lighting.com/city

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