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Re-Imagining Streetlight Infrastructure as a Digital Urban Platform

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  • Ricardo Álvarez
  • Fábio Duarte
  • Alaa AlRadwan
  • Michelle Sit
  • Carlo Ratti

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Urban infrastructures have traditionally been mono-functional: water, sewage, and electricity are notable examples. Embedded with digital technologies, urban infrastructures have the potential to communicate with one another and become multi-functional platforms that integrate data gathering and actuation cycles. In this paper, we focus on public lighting infrastructures. Despite the technological development of lights, including LED technology, streetlights have been primarily treated as a mono-functional infrastructure. Based on case studies, we discuss the potential of reimagining streetlight infrastructure, and advance some initial proposals that focus on sensing and actuation cycles, which could transform this pervasive infrastructure into a digital urban platform.

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  • Ricardo Álvarez & Fábio Duarte & Alaa AlRadwan & Michelle Sit & Carlo Ratti, 2017. "Re-Imagining Streetlight Infrastructure as a Digital Urban Platform," Journal of Urban Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(2), pages 51-64, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cjutxx:v:24:y:2017:i:2:p:51-64
    DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2017.1285084
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    1. Carmen Rotuna, & Carmen Elena Cîrnu, & Dragos Smada, & Alexandru Gheorghi?ã, 2017. "Smart City Applications Built On Big Data Technologies And Secure Iot," EcoForum, "Stefan cel Mare" University of Suceava, Romania, Faculty of Economics and Public Administration - Economy, Business Administration and Tourism Department., vol. 6(3), pages 1-9, august.
    2. Xiaojiang Li & Fábio Duarte & Carlo Ratti, 2021. "Analyzing the obstruction effects of obstacles on light pollution caused by street lighting system in Cambridge, Massachusetts," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 48(2), pages 216-230, February.
    3. Sarah Williams & Chaewon Ahn & Hayrettin Gunc & Ege Ozgirin & Michael Pearce & Zhekun Xiong, 2019. "Evaluating sensors for the measurement of public life: A future in image processing," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 46(8), pages 1534-1548, October.

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