Chiasso constantly aims for newways to achieve higher green targets.
In 2013, the City started to invest on its street lighting infrastruc-
ture to reduce energy consumption, pilot future proof technologies
and improve quality of service. The Smart Lighting project was kicked
off by replacing existing lamps with LED devices and implementing
PE.AMI as advanced system for remote monitoring and control. Lat-
est deployments were made in summer 2015 in Via Dante Alighieri,
prominent arterial road in the city centre, and the Smart Lighting
infrastructure now covers multiple areas of the City, ie. the ring
road, a portion of the city centre, some municipal buildings and
sports facilities.
“Investments we are shouldering to improve street lighting are
paying relevant benefits back to Chiasso citizens and businesses,
as well as to local government and AGE itself”, confirms Corrado
Noseda, director at AGE SA. “Thanks to LED transition and the pos-
sibility to calibrate each light point from remote, we estimate a 70%
cut of daily energy consumption in Via Dante Alighieri, and
similar results in the other areas.
"As for service quality, we can ensure every
street, crossroad and crossover to be properly
lighted, using the light intensity which is indeed
needed. Management and maintenance costs
have been reduced too”.
AGE and the City of Chiasso decided to
gradually leverage the same network plat-
form to manage other urban applications,
such as public Wi-Fi in some city areas, traffic
video surveillance along the ring road through
IP cameras, and a pilot smart metering project.
Discussions are currently in place to extend PE.AMI
network to a smart parking project and test some pio-
neer drone applications in the same area, thus pushing the
idea of the Smart City even further.
ENERGY + ENVIROFICIENCY:
FOCUS ON LIGHTING
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