New Zealand’s Whakatane District Council Selects Telensa for its 2,500 Smart Street Lighting Project

System will save money by connecting and managing LED streetlights
whilst providing a low-cost platform for smart city applications

CAMBRIDGE, England & WHAKATANE, New Zealand–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Telensa,
the market leader in connected street lighting and Smart City
applications, today announced that it has been selected by Whakatane
District Council to deploy its PLANet intelligent streetlighting system.
The project, part of a New Zealand Transport Agency programme to convert
existing road lighting to LED, will involve replacing Whakatane’s 2,500
streetlights with wirelessly managed LEDs. The project is due for
completion in June 2018.

Telensa PLANet is an end-to-end intelligent street lighting system,
consisting of wireless nodes connecting individual lights, a dedicated
wireless network owned by the city, and a central management
application. The system pays for itself in reduced energy and
maintenance costs, improves quality of service through automatic fault
reporting, and turns streetlight poles into hubs for smart city sensors.
With more than 1.5 million lights connected, Telensa PLANet is the
world’s most popular connected streetlight system.

“Telensa PLANet will help Whakatane District Council reduce costs whilst
improving our streetlighting service,” said Council Transportation
Manager Martin Taylor. “This project is a significant step forward in
intelligent infrastructure and will deliver a safer, smarter, and more
efficient service environment for District residents.”

“Following our recent announcement with Wellington, we are delighted to
be working with Whakatane to deliver a more efficient streetlighting
service, one that can respond to the District’s changing needs,” said
Will Gibson, Founder and Chief Commercial Officer at Telensa. “We are
also excited about the potential for low-cost smart city applications,
enabled by the new lighting network.”

About Telensa
Telensa® makes wireless smart city
applications, helping cities around the world save energy, work smarter
and deliver more joined-up services for their citizens. Telensa PLANet
is the world’s most deployed smart streetlight solution, with a
footprint of 1.5 million lights. Building on the compelling business
case for its smart streetlighting, the company provides cities and
utilities with an open, low-cost platform to add multiple sensor
applications.

Telensa’s Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) wireless networks simply attach to
light poles. They can provide city or region-wide coverage in a matter
of days, and are designed to run reliably for decades. The company is
working alongside other leading vendors within ETSI (the
European Telecommunications Standards Institute) to develop standards
for LPWA networks.

Telensa is also a founding member of ETSI’s City Digital Profile (CDP)
that will help accelerate the delivery of integrated citizen services
and provide a technology road map for city leaders who will benefit from
standardized solutions from their suppliers.

Contacts

Temono PR for Telensa
Ed Howson
[email protected]
+44
(0)7740 173051