Smart city technology
Lighting up Montevideo with smart streetlights
N
ational Narrowband Network Company (NNNCo), a Sydney-
The project will cover 200 km2 and provide smart street
based LoRaWAN operator
lighting to more than 1.3 million people, reducing carbon
and IoT solutions provider,
emissions by 80% and establishing an infrastructure-based
has partnered with Spanish
network that can accommodate other smart city initiatives.
company Wellness TechGroup to provide IoT network coverage to 70,000 smart street-
public lighting service, benefiting the whole
the node for remote control of light points,
lights in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo.
population of the city with greater efficiency
equipped with Nema 7 fast connection, a
and operations management.
network analyser, data input from external
The project will cover 200 km2 and provide smart street lighting to more than 1.3
Rob Zagarella, NNNCo CEO and co-
million people, reducing carbon emissions
founder, said, “This is a milestone contract
The Actis Plus Nema 7 nodes will connect
by 80% and establishing an infrastructure-
in the establishment of NNNCo’s LoRaWAN
with WeLight Manager, a software that will
based network that can accommodate other
network as one of the world’s leading
provide real-time information on all the data
smart city initiatives.
networks for smart streetlight use cases
from the intelligent public lighting service.
and we hope to facilitate similar projects
The systems become a data-enabled lighting
in Australia in the near future.
server, true central nodes and form part of
The project will see the deployment of new streetlights with LED technology using Wellness TechGroup’s WeLight technology, LoRaWAN Actis Nema 7 nodes and NNNCo’s
“This is technology that makes cities greener, smarter and better to live in.”
sensors and adaptive lighting capacity.
a smart city IoT ecosystem, beyond lighting. David Garcia, Wellness TechGroup CEO,
LoRaWAN network. The installation will help
The 10-year contract signed with the
said, “We have deployed more than 300
improve public safety and energy efficiency
City of Montevideo includes the oppor-
smart lighting projects worldwide, where
with the use of network and application
tunity for Wellness and NNNCo to bring
we are already managing almost 1 million
management software and the integration
third-party customers across the same
points of lights in municipalities remotely.”
of smart applications for waste management
gateways into the LoRaWAN network. The
NNNCo and Wellness Techgroup are
and water conservation.
Australian network provider will be able to
investee companies of Enzen, a global
By replacing the older lights with LED
service customers across the whole city,
knowledge practice. This contract shows
technology and a new remote management
using the NNNCo N2N-DL data aggrega-
the synergies of both companies in the
system, the system will help reduce carbon
tion layer and the NNNCo N-Tick device
areas of IoT, smart cities and sustainability.
emissions by 31,500 tons of CO2 per year,
interoperability program.
a decrease of approximately 80%. The
Wellness TechGroup will roll out 70,000
project will also improve the quality of the
smart streetlights with Actis Plus Nema 7,
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