Cities across the world are facing tough new challenges with the realities of climate change and our impact on the environment becoming more evident every day. The need to provide services to city populations while reducing the impact on our planet is a daunting task. AAEON is committed to offering products and services to help make Smart City solutions a reality.

When most people think of Smart Cities they think of Intelligent Street Lighting; providing a smart AI driven solution to controlling a city’s network of lights in an effort to reduce energy. But the idea of what a Smart City means has grown beyond that. By utilizing the infrastructure already in place with Intelligent Street Lighting, cities can provide a wide range of services through a system of interconnected IoT devices. These devices can monitor air quality and traffic, provide Smart Parking Management, help implement city-wide Wi-Fi or 5G coverage, or even provide people with on-demand and up-to-date information through the use of interactive digital signage.

The key to Smart Cities is to provide this while lowering the impact we have on our planet. Smart City devices include IoT nodes and AIoT gateways which use components built around low power consumption. Wireless protocols such as LoRaWAN help to provide a way of transmitting information without the need for powerful antennas. The implementation of AI Edge Computing decentralizes the processing power of a Smart City system, so cities no longer have to rely on huge, expensive cloud systems with high power consumption.