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Smart Street Lighting

Smarter Lighting Starts with Smarter Connectivity

Street Lighting: A Smart City Priority

Street lighting plays a critical role in a city’s safety, economy, and citizens’ experience. However, it constitutes up to 65% of a city’s electricity costs and 10% of its overall budget.

Smart street lighting combines energy-efficient LED luminaires with wireless connectivity and optional sensors, allowing cities to remotely manage, monitor, and control lighting on roads, streets, parks, and plazas via a single dashboard.

Luminaires can automatically switch on, off, or dim based on natural light levels. Motion sensor lights turn on automatically upon detecting a person or vehicle approaching, while emergency areas can override schedules.

Smart street lighting typically covers large urban areas with a dense grid of line-powered luminaires that provide a reliable infrastructure for other IoT capabilities, such as smart waste bins, parking meters, and air quality sensors.

According to the Northeast Group, smart street lighting investment is expected to reach $28.1 billion over the next decade, not including installation value.

Highly Integrated Cellular IoT SoCs

Within a single die, the ALT1250 and ALT1350 integrate a best-in-class LTE-M and NB-IoT modem with a low-power Cortex‑M4 MCU dedicated to application execution. Network credentials are stored in the built‑in integrated SIM (iSIM), eliminating the need for an external SIM and its associated size and cost, while Sony GNSS pinpoints device location. With just a battery and antenna, you have everything you need to launch your device.

5G Massive IoT and Multi-Protocol Network

The ALT1350 SoC integrates a 5G baseband processor as well as sub-GHz and 2.4GHz transceivers to enable hybrid connectivity for smart cities. This enhances coverage, reduces costs, and further decreases power consumption by leveraging IEEE 802.15.4-based protocols such as Wi-Sun, LoRa, and additional standard or proprietary point-to-point mesh technologies.

Built-In Security, From the Ground Up

Security is crucial for smart city lighting. If compromised, smart lighting systems can lead to serious security breaches, such as disrupting public safety, disabling lighting, or even triggering false alarms. A compromised system can also affect other connected devices in a city's IoT ecosystem, such as surveillance cameras and traffic sensors. Altair cellular IoT chips provide a highly secured architecture approved by tier-1 operators, with built-in security designed from the ground up. The ALT1350 SoC and ALT1250 modem both offer highly secured communication, while OTA upgrades keep devices relevant and secure for years after installation.

Cellular Connectivity Is Transforming Smart City Lighting

LTE-M and NB-IoT technology provides cost savings, energy efficiency, safety, scalability, and reliable connectivity. Smart lighting systems driven by IoT are incredibly energy-efficient, automatically adjusting light intensity based on time of day or presence of people. These systems are governed by global standardization and security alliances, ensuring the highest level of security available. Municipalities can take advantage of existing global cellular network infrastructure and scale from a single streetlight to millions.

IoT Requirements for Smart Street Lighting

Smart city lighting systems need chips capable of controlling the lights, collecting data, and communicating with other devices in the system. Reliable connectivity is essential for seamless communication between sensors, controllers, and cloud-based management software. Security is a key concern, and systems should integrate easily with other hardware and software components to fit seamlessly into existing infrastructure.

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Performance Built for Smart Street Lighting

Our cellular IoT chips are designed from the ground up for reliable connectivity, feature a hardware-based security engine with GNSS functionality, and include an integrated SIM, providing everything you need for smart city lighting deployments.

Transform Your Smart City Lighting with Altair Cellular IoT Chips

With Altair, better connectivity means smarter cities. Our IoT chips provide ultra-low power consumption, a miniature size, extended battery life, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Partner with Us for IoT-Enabled Smart City Lighting

At Altair, we are dedicated to helping our customers succeed in their smart city initiatives. With years of experience in cellular IoT and a commitment to the highest-quality solutions, our chips provide the ideal foundation for comprehensive smart city lighting systems.

Connect with us to unlock the benefits of smart street lighting.