The city of Chicago, IL has announced a Smart Lighting Project with the goal of converting the bulk of the city’s outdoor lighting to energy-efficient LED sources. The city will also contemplate networked lighting with a central management system and possibly the use of a street light deployment to extend its fiberoptic network, enabling the city to offer new services. Chicago Infrastructure Trust (CIT) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to parties that might participate in the project with responses due by November 15.
Chicago has been slow to move toward LED technology relative to other major cities. For example, the city of Los Angeles, CA has already deployed more than 140,000 LED street lights and is actively installing wireless network capabilities in that system.
Still, the Chicago project could prove to be among the largest solid-state lighting (SSL) retrofits undertaken around the globe.
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