Tondo Smart Lighting and Smart City Solutions for Transmission & Distribution Utilities

Enhancing Utilities’ Street Lighting-as-a-Service Value Propositions

Adding Tondo’s Smart Lighting and Smart City add-on solutions to the product portfolios of Transmission & Distribution Utilities (TDUs) can significantly enhance a utility’s street lighting-as-a-service value propositions. 

Integrating connected critical infrastructure, environmental monitoring, and transportation solutions into Tondo’s Smart Lighting-based network can provide comprehensive smart city management capabilities, delivering even greater benefits to cities and new revenue sources for utilities.

Key Benefits of Tondo’s Smart Lighting and Smart City Solutions

Enhanced Energy Efficiency and Cost Savings

AI-Adaptive Roadway Dimming: Tondo’s exclusive AI-adaptive dimming reduces electricity use by up to 30% while ensuring standards-compliant lighting levels, increasing the profitability of utility streetlighting-as-a-service solutions. 

Metered Streetlighting: Transitioning to metered rate plans can optimize billing accuracy and energy usage monitoring, offering precise control over energy consumption and simplifying utilities’ management of streetlighting assets and their energy consumption for both lighting assets and Smart City assets attached to lighting assets.

Operational Efficiency for Utilities and Cities

Real-Time Monitoring and Diagnostics: Tondo’s Cloud IQ CMS provides real-time monitoring, fault detection, and proactive maintenance alerts, reducing downtime and maintenance costs. This enhances the reliability and extends the lifespan of lighting assets and other infrastructure.

Predictive Maintenance: Implement predictive maintenance analytics for cities to pro-actively address potential failures in critical infrastructure, reducing downtime and unplanned maintenance costs.

Comprehensive Data Integration and Analytics

Unified Data Platform: Tondo’s Cloud IQ CMS serves as a central platform integrating data from connected smart city applications, providing a holistic view of city infrastructure operations.

Advanced Analytics: Leverage deep learning AI to analyze data from multiple sources, providing actionable insights and enabling data-driven decision-making for better operational efficiency.

Improved Public Safety and Quality of Life

Adaptive Lighting and Safety Integration: Adaptive lighting solutions enhance public safety by improving visibility in high-risk areas and adjusting lighting based on changing vehicle and pedestrian traffic patterns – in compliance with ANSI/IES, FHA, and state DOT standards.

Emergency Response: Integrate public safety systems such as emergency call buttons and surveillance cameras into the smart lighting network to improve emergency response times and coordination.

Smart City Infrastructure Management

Integrated Critical Infrastructure Monitoring: Cities can utilize Tondo’s sensor and controls platform to monitor the health and status of critical infrastructure such as water and wastewater systems, energy distribution networks, and public safety assets.

Environmental Monitoring: Deploy sensors to monitor air and water quality in real-time, providing critical data to support public health operations and city compliance with environmental regulations.

Traffic Flow and Congestion Management: Use traffic sensors to monitor and manage traffic flow, reducing congestion and improving transportation efficiency, as well as future vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) applications.

Sustainability and Regulatory Compliance

Environmental Impact: Enhanced monitoring and management of environmental conditions such as air quality and ground-water quality contribute to sustainability goals, supporting cities in their efforts to reduce carbon footprints and comply with environmental regulations.

Resilience and Adaptation: Tondo’s smart city solutions can help support cities’ resilience to climate change and other environmental challenges, helping them adapt and thrive in changing conditions.

Additional Revenue Streams

Service Expansion: Offering smart city add-ons can create significant new revenue streams for TDUs, positioning them as comprehensive providers of smart city solutions.

Bundled Services: TDUs can offer bundled service packages that include smart lighting, environmental monitoring, transportation management, and critical infrastructure solutions, providing more value to cities and increasing customer retention.

Case Study: Smart Lighting Control Benefits for a California City with 10,000 Streetlights in SCE Territory

Using a California city within the Southern California Edison (SCE) utility territory as an example, the benefits of integrating Tondo’s Smart Lighting and Smart City add-on solutions are substantial. This paper provides a detailed analysis: Tondo’s Business Case for Smart Roadway Lighting Controls.

Current Streetlight Operations Costs

Total Annual Cost: $1,408,289

• Electricity Costs: $911,630
• Asset Lifecycle & Maintenance Costs: $369,879
• Non-Maintenance Operations: $162,876
• Carbon Credit Offset Costs: $8,951

Post-Deployment Cost Savings

Total Savings: $818,751 annually (56.3% reduction)

• Metered Rate Plan Savings: $398,793
• Correction of Over-Lighting: $44,215
• Adaptive Roadway Lighting Control: $211,380
• Fixture Lifecycles & Maintenance Costs: $106,123
• Non-Maintenance Operational Efficiencies: $53,749
• Carbon Credit Offset Savings: $4,490

Return on Investment (ROI)

• Full Cost Recovery: 3.59 years
• 20-Year Value: $10.6 million (compared to $6.6 million for an LED retrofit project)

Other Benefits

Enhanced Operational Efficiency

• Real-Time Monitoring: Tondo’s Cloud IQ CMS provides continuous monitoring, enabling proactive maintenance and reducing downtime.
• Predictive Maintenance: Analytics-driven maintenance schedules prevent failures and extend the lifespan of infrastructure.

Improved Public Safety

• Adaptive Lighting: Enhances visibility and safety in high-risk areas by adjusting lighting levels based on established IES, FHA, and DOT standards.
• Integrated Public Safety Systems: Emergency call buttons and surveillance cameras improve response times and coordination during emergencies.

Environmental Benefits

• Reduced Energy Consumption: AI-adaptive dimming and efficient energy management lead to significant reductions in energy use.
• Carbon Footprint Reduction: Decreased energy consumption results in lower carbon emissions, supporting the city’s sustainability goals.

Smart City Integration

• Critical Infrastructure Monitoring: Real-time data on the health and status of infrastructure such as water systems and energy networks ensures efficient management and quick response to issues.
• Environmental Monitoring: Sensors track air and water quality, providing essential data for public health and regulatory compliance.
• Traffic Management: Traffic sensors optimize flow and reduce congestion, improving overall transportation efficiency.

Additional Revenue Opportunities

• Service Expansion: Offering additional smart city services can create new revenue streams, positioning the TDU as a comprehensive provider of smart city solutions.
• Bundled Services: Bundling smart lighting with other smart city services enhances value for cities and fosters long-term customer relationships.

Tondo vs. The Competition

Tondo Smart Ltd. offers several unique and exclusive features that provide a significant edge over its competitors. You can read more details in Tondo’s Solutions Guide.

• AI-Adaptive Roadway Dimming: Tondo offers exclusive AI-adaptive dimming that reduces electricity use by up to 30% while ensuring standards-compliant lighting.
• Fully Managed Private Network: Tondo includes a fully managed private network, reducing platform complexity for cities, and operational costs by up to 10%.
• Comprehensive AI & Deep Learning Integration: Tondo’s unique Deep Learning AI capabilities provide valuable insights and automating complex management tasks, and identify anomalies such as wiring faults, electricity theft, and wire theft.
• Unlimited Scalability: Tondo’s solutions are designed for unlimited scalability, offering growth potential without the limitations often seen in competitors’ solutions, which are restricted by gateways or CMS capabilities.
• Blazingly Fast Cellular Cloud Connectivity: Tondo provides both high-speed LTE cellular and Bluetooth Mesh connectivity for high scalability and reliability, unlike competitors who typically offer slower connections and require external gateway devices that increase complexity and points of failure.
• Enhanced Cybersecurity with Hardware-Based Root of Trust: Tondo provides hardware-based root of trust in its devices, ensuring robust cybersecurity via internal hardware cryptographic accelerators and secure encryption key management.

Conclusion

Partnering with Tondo to enhance a TDU’s product portfolio with integrated smart lighting and smart city solutions can provide a comprehensive and highly valuable service to cities.

The integration of connected critical infrastructure, environmental monitoring, and transportation solutions into the smart lighting network enhances operational efficiency, public safety, and sustainability. A partnership with Tondo can position TDUs as leading providers of innovative and efficient smart city solutions, delivering significant economic and social benefits to cities and their residents.