Imagine strolling through your city, seamlessly connected to a fast, reliable network, without any network equipment in sight. Instead, your city's lighting infrastructure - literally those streetlights we all walk and drive past every day - double as a robust connectivity grid. Sounds pretty great, right? Welcome to the world of smart street lighting and broadband luminaires, transforming ordinary streetlights into smart network nodes that generate multi-gigabit, fiber-like speeds...and they do it wirelessly.
Urban areas are evolving into fully connected spaces thanks to our powerhouse technology: Siklu by Ceragon radios concealed within next-generation smart streetlights. The best part? You can leverage your existing outdoor lighting infrastructure to create this ready-made connectivity grid. This implementation won't just enhance your city's functionality; it can also accelerate your digital transformation journey.
Facing Challenges? Here's your Solution
Most of us in the municipality space are approaching the point where we need to increase network capacity and coverage, lower expenses, and support added data and bandwidth-heavy applications such as real-time video surveillance, IoT connectivity, and enhanced security. Well, this increased demand for seamless interconnectivity also comes with its own set of challenges. Traditional methods such as laying fiber – the typical go-to solution for high-capacity, low-latency needs, are often disruptive, time-consuming, and expensive, rendering it practically impossible in many locations. Additionally, places characterized by historical and cultural significance are often designated as no-dig zones. The irony, here, is that these locations are often heavily visited and require strong connectivity – often more so than other city locations.
Enter an innovative solution: Siklu by Ceragon’s broadband luminaires. This clever alternative to fiber delivers an end-to-end, wireless, scalable solution that ensures broad coverage without the need for disruptive roadworks or unsightly towers and poles. With broadband luminaires, you can now connect no-dig zones, improve network capacity and coverage, eliminate complex planning, maintain clean city aesthetics, lower expenses, and enable IoT connectivity, safety, and security features in your city.
Embrace the Future with Smart Street Lighting
Siklu by Ceragon's wireless network nodes are seamlessly integrated into sleek luminaires, providing a sophisticated, streamlined and connected streetlight. Broadband luminaires enable next-gen applications and support diverse sectors, from intelligent transportation and public safety to residential and small businesses, business parks, smart ports, and logistics, stadiums, and entertainment...to name just a few. This solution enables cities to empower their operations with multi-gigabit connectivity and power, facilitating better communication network performance and supporting emerging needs such as:
- Real-time monitoring with IoT connectivity and environmental sensors
- Enhanced citywide public safety & security
- Real-time multi-megapixel video surveillance and monitoring
- High speed public Wi-Fi access
- Smart city transportation, smart parking, and smart traffic systems
- Tourism & visitor services
- Smart, adaptable lighting & energy efficiency initiatives
- Retail & commerce support
- And more.
And if this seems like a daunting project to take on all at once, fear not. Ceragon's team of experts is here for you at any stage of your network modernization journey. Our experience in planning, building, and managing highly specialized private networks, our large portfolio of technology partners, and our deep experience with light grid connectivity means that we can tap in wherever you might need us in your journey to flawless interconnectivity. Just give us a shout and we’re there.
The Connected Solution of Tomorrow
Broadband luminaires are a game changer in the race to create smarter, highly connected, more efficient cities. They can easily and cost-effectively be implemented to support and enable IoT applications, real-time multi-megapixel camera streams, public Wi-Fi, 5G small cells, and fixed wireless access—all of which drastically improve municipal services, citizen satisfaction, provide scalability, and encourage novel applications and use cases for the future.
By leveraging your existing lighting infrastructure to become a part of Ceragon's revolutionary broadband luminaire journey, you're setting your city on a path of connected, digital growth. Gear up for a future where the places you live, work, and visit aren't just illuminated - they're interconnected in a seamless web of high-speed, high-bandwidth, secure and dynamic connectivity that defines the cities of tomorrow.
For a deeper dive, download our Solution Brief on Broadband Luminaires today.
