Glass-Link Sensor Networks Limited, a leading innovator in smart city solutions, recently implemented the Smart-Lights project in a single-family housing estate. With 45 energy-efficient streetlights, the project aimed to improve resident comfort, safety, and infrastructure standards while laying the foundation for a fully connected city ecosystem.
The estate now benefits from automatic and manual lamp control, real-time monitoring, fast malfunction alerts, and expandable infrastructure for future smart sensors, including audio, environmental, and proximity detection.
POYNTING played a key role by supplying the OMNI-706 antenna, ensuring that communication between the streetlights and the central system remained secure, robust, and reliable over long distances.
Implementing a connected lighting system across multiple heights and locations poses several technical challenges:
Glass-Link needed a solution that provided industrial-grade performance without adding complex infrastructure or heavy installation costs.
The OMNI-706, a Dual Band Wi-Fi antenna from POYNTING, was selected as the communication backbone for the project. Key factors included:
The combination of OMNI-706’s features and Glass-Link’s pre-configured devices allowed the network to be deployed and activated in under six hours.
The deployment of the OMNI-706 antenna within the Smart-Lights project led to immediate and measurable benefits:
The OMNI-706 enabled secure, low-interference, real-time monitoring across the network, ensuring both operational efficiency and scalability for future smart city expansions.
Glass-Link praises the OMNI-706 Antenna for its reliability, long-distance coverage, and vertical signal reach. The robust antenna design means operators can monitor and manage the streetlights remotely with minimal intervention, allowing a low-cost, low-maintenance, and highly efficient smart lighting system.
The network’s independence from telecom providers adds an extra layer of security, making it a truly private solution that supports both current and future smart city technologies.
The Smart-Lights project demonstrates how strategic use of POYNTING technology can transform urban infrastructure. By integrating the OMNI-706 antenna into Glass-Link’s system, the project not only achieved energy efficiency and operational excellence but also laid the groundwork for future smart city expansion.
With reliable wireless communication at its core, connected lighting becomes more than illumination—it becomes a platform for a smarter, safer, and more sustainable urban environment.
