Real-time traffic data with energy savings on street lights

Challenges addressed

Sustainable mobility: Enabling and Improving Mobility as a Service

This project leverages real-time traffic data to provide added-value services in the fields of adaptive lighting, traffic optimisation, and public safety. Schréder and SixSq have developed the Volumlight solution, which optimises street lighting based on traffic volume. Our proposal is to use the street lighting infrastructure already in play for Volumlight as a platform to host a variety of additional applications and at the same time leverage data available in the SynchroniCity framework.

The proposed solution provides the following benefits:

Adaptive lighting: Traffic data is used to dynamically adapt the lighting level in real-time. The main benefit of the solution is energy savings of up to 30% compared to standard street lamp dimming systems.

Mobility: Our system detects anomalies such as traffic jams and immediately notifies the relevant traffic management service.

Traffic analytics: Traffic data can be used to perform analytics over time to provide valuable insights to inform future transport planning decisions.

Traffic data visualisation will be demonstrated using a geographic information system, to show how we can unify data collected by our system and existing data in the SynchroniCity framework. All data collected by our system will also be pushed to the SynchroniCity database, thereby enriching the framework.

Cities involved

Antwerp, Porto.

Team

SixSq

Schréder SA