Smart city procurement often fails not because cities lack ambition, but because they struggle to translate that ambition into precise technical requirements. In this interview, José Sanchis, Chairman of the TALQ Certification Workgroup, explains...
The Ibiza City Council has finished installing all 1,475 LED luminaires planned under its municipal public lighting overhaul, an intervention delivered by energy services firm Edison Next and financed through the European Union’s...
The Ayuntamiento de Santa Pola, a coastal tourist municipality of roughly 35,000 residents in Alicante, Spain, is replacing its entire public lighting stock with individually connected LED fixtures controlled over a Narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) network,...
TALQ Consortium, the standards body behind the Smart City Protocol, published a white paper on June 16, 2026 addressing how cities can better manage artificial light at night (ALAN). While outdoor lighting remains essential for safety, mobility,...
The Torrevieja City Council has completed a public lighting modernization and expansion project covering seven locations across the Alicante coastal municipality, awarding the contract to Sociedad Ibérica de Construcciones Eléctricas S.A. (SICE)...
Loos-en-Gohelle, a municipality of roughly 6,900 residents in France’s Pas-de-Calais department, launched a citizen-controlled street lighting pilot on June 9, 2026, allowing inhabitants to reactivate public streetlights from their smartphones...
Schréder, the Brussels-headquartered smart outdoor lighting group, has completed the acquisition of Sydney-based EdgeMachines, a specialist in low-power IoT sensing and edge AI for urban environments. The deal, announced on June 8, 2026, formalises...
The Colombian city of Cali has launched an open tender to modernize 100% of its public lighting with LED fixtures and remote management, a program that would touch more than 186,000 luminaires and rank among the largest single street-lighting...
Two Seoul districts completed or broke ground on smart pole deployments in May 2026, combining CCTV surveillance, LED emergency alert systems, and public Wi-Fi into unified street infrastructure designed to reduce crime blind spots and improve...
The Ayuntamiento de Toledo is rolling out a complete overhaul of public lighting across its UNESCO-listed historic quarter, replacing 418 existing lanterns with a connected LED model capable of individual, web-based control, marking the first time...
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