DEPARTMENTS: City of San Antonio Office of Innovation and Information and Technology Services Department; CPS Energy Grid Transformation & Engineering and Business & Economic Development
DEPARTMENT HEADS: Brian Dillard, CIO and Craig Hopkins, CIO
Richard Medina, VP Grid Transformation & Engineering
Jonathan Tijerina, Sr. Director Business & Economic Development
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Innovation Zones located in Brooks, Medical Center and Downtown San Antonio
SUBJECT:
SmartSA Streetlight Pilot Program
SUMMARY:
The purpose of this item is to provide the Innovation and Technology Committee with an update on the progress with the SmartSA Streetlight Pilot Program in partnership with CPS Energy.
BACKGROUND:
As part of normal and ongoing services, CPS Energy operates and maintains more than 128,000 streetlights throughout the City of San Antonio. Managing and responding to streetlight outages is an intensive process that relies on streetlight patrols, customers, and staff reporting streetlight issues.
Enabling smart streetlight sensors can provide near real-time operational performance of the lighting assets while enhancing service levels for our community and customers. This technology provides CPS Energy with the capabilities to ensure the streetlights are operating as designed, alerts if the devices are not operating as expected, advance notification of preventative maintenance, GPS location, advanced features for dimming/brightening schedules and the ability to operate streetlights in a way that enhances public perception and safety.
Value added benefits beyond streetlight controls can be achieved by leveraging the communication platform for other types of smart sensors. With this in mind, CPS Energy and the City of San Antonio Office of Innovation Smart Cities (OISC) collaborated on this SmartSA Streetlight Pilot program. CPS Energy and the City of San Antonio have a long history of working together to provide the citizens of San Antoni...
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