Aberdeen City Council
Lighting up the City of Aberdeen
Aberdeen City Council wanted to explore innovative uses of Internet of Things (IoT) technology to improve many aspects of city life for citizens and businesses and to deliver sustainability and decarbonisation improvements.
Intelligent street lighting was decided as the anchor IoT project to complement the LED head replacement programme the council was already undertaking, to help achieve additional savings on their street lighting energy consumption and costs, whilst also delivering operational and maintenance efficiencies.
North provided Aberdeen City Council with a CMS-based (Central Management System) Intelligent Lighting solution and city-wide IoT network to subsidise the design and deployment of other IoT-based smart solutions.
The project saw a state-of-the-art IoT solution installed to manage and monitor more than 37,000 street lighting units remotely, enhancing the city’s lighting provision, whilst simultaneously helping to create a greener and safer city for the people of Aberdeen.
North’s intelligent solution is supporting Aberdeen City Council with its Net Zero Aberdeen Route Map, a city-wide approach to reducing carbon emissions and helping Aberdeen become a Smart City. Intelligent Lighting enables the remote maintenance of lighting systems, and is improving energy efficiencies and lowering carbon emissions in line with the council’s Net Zero targets. The project was also recognised across the UK, winning the Sustainable Customer Project of the Year category at the CRN Tech Impact Awards.
Benefits
- Significantly reduces energy usage delivering savings of up to 30%
- Creates a greener future with energy-efficient lighting across the city
- Greater reliability and optimised maintenance through actionable insights and dashboards
- Reduced carbon footprint and less light pollution, decreasing the overall environmental impact
- Eliminated manual processes, significantly reducing carbon emissions from travel
- Custom dimming profiles manage the energy required at any given time, reducing light pollution
- Increased control enables operators to respond quickly to specific events, helping create safer environments
- Automated fault reporting allows for more efficient maintenance
- Energy savings from intelligent street lighting allow funds to be diverted into other programmes that support the council’s goals
Read the full Use Case
North is helping Aberdeen City Council to achieve their smart city vision by delivering intelligent lighting that reduces energy consumption, delivers significant cost efficiencies, and creates safer communities.