2. Verizon integrated solutions designed to help cities become more livable, efficient and engaging
We’ve talked with many city leaders around the country about their challenges, from traffic congestion in Boston to installing smart street lighting in Kansas City and Washington, DC. And we heard common initiatives they’re undertaking to tackle their challenges, including:
Sustainability and efficiency—using resources more effectively while minimizing environmental impacts as growth accelerates
Citizen experiences—making cities more livable while enabling people to participate fully
Public safety and security—increasing perception of safety and protecting critical assets from threats

3. All of these challenges overlap and are constantly moving targets, depending on where you are and what’s going on. But the right infrastructure can give you the means to meet them head on, and help you create a community that is safer and more livable, sustainable and resilient.
Verizon offers a comprehensive set of solutions built on a platform of network densification, fiber and connectivity—that, combined with our expertise and managed services, can help you tackle these challenges, end to end. We’re not selling technology looking for a problem; these solutions were created specifically to meet your city’s needs.

4. Cities consume almost 75 percent of the world’s energy, with street lighting representing up to 40 percent of consumption.
Following are just a few of the most common lighting challenges faced by cities around the country:
Non-LED lights are inefficient and use a lot of energy
When a light goes out, it’s a safety issue
And it can become a point of real frustration, if the right people don’t know it’s out and residents are waiting for it to be fixed
And finally, when you can’t control your lights, you can’t manage them; as in, you can’t simply turn them on or off when you need to

5. Time for an upgrade
Many communities and organizations are moving toward Internet of Things (IoT)-based smart-city solutions that include intelligent lighting
It’s estimated that by 2027, widespread use of intelligent lighting solutions could save more than $30 billion, the equivalent energy output of 44 large power plants*
To help municipalities, schools, hospitals and other organizations reduce energy use and manage their lighting more efficiently and effectively, we created Verizon Intelligent Lighting. *

6. Verizon has developed a system—a partnership approach and business model—that transforms lighting into a converged sensor network and services platform that can also enable other critical city services.
With Verizon Intelligent Lighting, you can manually or programmatically regulate LED lights in ways you never imagined: Turn them on and off, dim them, and set timers, schedules and motion tracking. And you can control them individually or by group, and change parameters based on your needs at any given time.
By upgrading older streetlights to LED technology, cities could save between 50 to 70% in energy costs, compared to traditional lighting systems.*
Our solution also enables easy, cost-effective maintenance: You know exactly when and where a light has gone out, which helps to improve safety and livability, while reducing truck rolls and eliminating inventory audits.
And, as with our other Smart Communities solutions, the Intelligent Lighting platform enables monitoring, diagnostics and alerting, and delivers near real-time views of the system, to help you better understand how your lighting works. And better equip you to make informed, cost-saving decisions.
So you can significantly reduce energy and maintenance costs, while improving sustainability and supporting green initiatives.
And that’s not all.
* Driving Energy Efficiency and City Renovation, The Climate Group, March 2017.

7. In addition to cost savings and sustainability, Verizon Intelligent Lighting can improve quality of life in your community by:
Increasing the perception of safety for residents and visitors
Helping people see more clearly and feel more comfortable with their surroundings
Improving safety for motorists and pedestrians
Intelligent street lighting can also help cities and businesses meet requirements for light levels and coverage.

9. For a smart and forward-thinking start to your intelligent street-lighting project, you can begin with the Verizon City Hub.™ It’s a smart, LTE/Wi-Fi–enabled device that:
Enables lighting infrastructure as a platform for smart-city solutions
Increases data and insights with h unit functioning as a node for connecting other IoT sensors and deviceseac
Simplifies power and connectivity for intelligent street lights and other IoT devices, such as Video Node 4K cameras
Provides high-bandwidth, edge-processing capabilities
Integrates onboard sensors, such as GPS and temperature
With our City Hub, you can easily perform advanced lighting control and add sensors such as Video Node 4K for video analytics, Intersection Safety Analytics and Parking Optimization. In addition, the City Hub is equipped with Power over Ethernet (PoE) and audio connectors can support a variety of future smart solutions.

10. For even greater flexibility and control, NetSense Lighting application programming interfaces (APIs) enable you to create your own lighting control interfaces, in addition to using the existing NetSense Lighting API.
Additional functions include:
Node setup
Node commissioning
Node and lighting control
Lighting scheduling setup
Asset management
Status monitoring
Energy reports

11. With Verizon Intelligent Lighting, you can:
Gather data analytics from your lighting system, including total power savings, outages and more
Optimize lighting from the cloud-managed group lighting control, where you can schedule dimming, set proximity dimming so lights turn on when movement is detected, or adjust levels to ambient lighting to respond to seasonal or weather changes
Combine this data with other systems metrics from public safety, traffic or pedestrian monitoring, to make smarter, better-informed decisions

12. The platform is also easy to implement—and expand.
Gateway-free installation—You don’t need an additional gateway device, which reduces complexity and troubleshooting costs
One-touch commissioning—Intelligent Lighting includes GPS-enabled node auto location and placement, which saves time and speeds up implementation
Smart Communities expansion platform—This gives you an open API and suite of smart-city solutions on the same platform, so you can easily integrate other smart- city technologies
Utility-grade metering—The smart-metering features found in Intelligent Lighting provide an accurate view of your energy consumption and usage, delivering 0.5% accuracy per ANSI standards, which help make it utility grade
Comprehensive offering—Verizon provides it all: hardware, software, cloud platform, connectivity with the Verizon 4G LTE network and professional services to help you keep your Intelligent Lighting solution working the way you want
Plus, you can add additional enhancements to make the solution even smarter.

13. At the end of the day, whether it’s citizen experiences, safety and security, or sustainability and efficiency, no one can match the quality and breadth of resources that Verizon can deliver. We’ve got the broadest range of advanced hardware, software and services to cover your city’s needs.
We bring the analytics and expertise to help you transform the data delivered by our smart solutions into actionable information.
We even offer managed services and financing programs to help you fund, deploy and operate your smart-city infrastructure efficiently.
We look forward to speaking with you about how we can best partner moving forward.

14. Our goal is to improve the quality of life for people living in cities around the world, while increasing operational efficiency and lowering costs.
For us, it’s not just about smart technology, connectivity or applications. We focus on the people of the city and their basic wants and needs, along with the needs of the local government.
And then we partner with you to design infrastructure, systems and processes to elevate and expand the way you provide services.