Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has partnered with TCS to develop a digitised and centralised, error-free smart city street lighting system.
The system will monitor the functioning of the streetlights from four centralised lighting zones in the city.
These will be set up in four zones: north-central, south, east and West.
KMC and TCS will take up a pilot project in Alipore and Kalighat. The new digitised system will be developed in these two areas.
A control room will be set up for the KMC lighting department officials to monitor the functioning of the street lights.
These smart solutions feature automated scheduling, intelligent dimming and centralised control to manage urban lighting infrastructure efficiently.
Electrical department staff will be alerted as soon as street lights malfunction in a particular neighbourhood. This will lead to more prompt action to address the issue.
According to the KMC electrical department, out of 3 lakh street light poles, around 15,000 malfunction at any given point of time, plunging some neighbourhoods into darkness.
Several such dark zones still exist around the city, including Ballygunge-Picnic Garden area, port zones, Dum Dum -Cossipore area, Sealdah areas in BBD Bagh zones and some stretches on EM Bypass among others.
TCS provides intelligent, IoT-enabled street lighting solutions through its Intelligent Urban Exchange (IUX) platform, aimed at reducing energy costs by up to 27 per cent.
