Todays IoT applications is an essential element of modern society. From outdoor street lights to household lights, traffic controls, CCTV, censoring affects people’s mood and sense of security. Unfortunately, they are also a major energy users. To reduce electricity demand and thereof the carbon footprint, IoT technologies have been widely accepted and implemented to upgrade many legacy systems. This global transition provides not merely an opportunity for energy-saving initiative but a feasible gateway to adopt an intelligent IoT platform, which is critical for smart-city solutions.

The IoT infrastructure could be used to create a powerful sensory network. With embedded sensor+control nodes, all applications work to collect and transmit a wide variety of data from environment humidity and PM2.5 to traffic monitoring and seismic activity, from sound to video, so as to support many city services and initiatives across a single common platform without adding significantly more physical infrastructure.

The Streetcom IoT solution is a wireless based public communication and intelligent control system featured with mesh networking technology.

Central Control & Management

Streetcom Cloud provides a cloud-based central management system (CMS) for provisioning, monitoring, controlling and analyzing IOT systems including lighting, traffic, signage, censoring and other related IOT applications. This secure platform helps cities, utilities and operators reduce energy usage and maintenance costs, while also increasing safety. Streetcom Cloud integrates automated asset monitoring of controlled lighting with real-time data capture, providing access to critical system data such as power consumption and fixture failure. The result is improved maintenance and operational savings. Streetcom also facilitates development of other IoT applications.

Gateway & Controller Node

The gateway communicates with server via cellular or ethernet wiring if available, and communicates with controller nodes using SUB-1GHz radio frequency (ISM 315/433/490/868/915/928 MHz). The controller node features mesh networking, which ensures each and every instruction from server could be received and performed via the gateway. All terminal performance could be monitored from mobile devices. Proven stable communication distance from the gateway to the node is 1000m, each gateway may cover up to 300 nodes 

Streetcom Cloud provides a cloud-based central management system (CMS) for provisioning, monitoring, controlling and analyzing IOT systems including lighting, traffic, signage, censoring and other related IOT applications. This secure platform helps cities, utilities and operators reduce energy usage and maintenance costs, while also increasing safety. Streetcom Cloud integrates automated asset monitoring of controlled lighting with real-time data capture, providing access to critical system data such as power consumption and fixture failure. The result is improved maintenance and operational savings. Streetcom also facilitates development of other IoT applications.

Operation

Users access Streetcom Cloud securely over the Internet via a web browser on a computer or mobile device to manage, monitor, and control lighting networks. Streetcom Cloud includes a modern and intuitive graphical map with representative illustrations of individual control devices. For indoor applications, a floor plan is integrated with the map application for seamless control. Managers can set up notifications for critical alerts to update maintenance staff about faults in real time.

Features

• Scales to thousands of locations with a unified single user interface for all.

• Accessible via browser on laptop, tablet or smartphone using highly secure encrypted communication.

• Enables monitoring assets in real time, validating and auditing energy code compliance, and identifying performance changes over time.

• E-mails and SMS notifications for fixture failures and other critical faults to improve lighting system up-time.

• Simplifies real-time schedule overrides using graphical map and floor plan views.

• Works with motion and photocell sensors to reduce energy use and extend lamp life.

Streetcom Cloud

Streetcom Cloud provides a cloud-based central management system(CMS) for provisioning, monitoring, controlling and analyzing IOT systems including lighting, traffic, signage, censoring and other related IOT applications. This secure platform helps cities, utilities and operators reduce energy usage and maintenance costs, while also increasing safety. Streetcom Cloud integrates automated asset monitoring of controlled lighting with real-time data capture, providing access to critical system data such as power consumption and fixture failure. The result is improved maintenance and operational savings. Streetcom also facilitates development of other IoT applications.

Users access Streetcom Cloud securely over the Internet via a web browser on a computer or mobile device to manage, monitor, and control lighting networks. Streetcom Cloud includes a modern and intuitive graphical map with representative illustrations of individual control devices. For indoor applications, a floor plan is integrated with the map application for seamless control. Managers can set up notifications for critical alerts to update maintenance staff about faults in real time.

Asset Management

Users can create, import, export and modify any device attribute, such as pole information (coordinates, pole type, etc.) and fixture information (pre/post installation wattage, lamp type, etc.). Users can search assets by name, unique ID numbers, model numbers, etc., to locate the correct asset for updating or editing. Streetcom also performs GIS to GPS matching on devices to correlate the pole Ids with according devices, eliminating the need to record the individual device IDs during installation.

Monitoring and Control

Streetcom Cloud provides a map-based interface to monitor and control all the lighting assets. The mapping function is also extended to floor plans for internal structures such as parking garages. Users can view the fixture status (on, off, dim), device health, etc., and perform overrides from the map/floor plans. When viewing alarms on the map, users can easily locate and troubleshoot faulty devices and configure replacement devices. User can also request collected data including wattage, current, etc. for specific assets or all data point.

Grouping and Scheduling

Streetcom Cloud allows logical grouping of assets for event scheduling. The scheduling engine provides the flexibility to assign multiple schedules to a group, thereby keeping the regular and special events on separate schedules and avoiding user setup errors. The scheduling engine determines the daily schedule based on the event priority and sends appropriate information to various groups.

Data Collection

Streetcom Cloud automatically collects granular data several times a day on various data points including light level, energy use, faults, etc. It enables users to establish different monitoring levels for selected data points such as voltage, current, power factor, etc. for analysis and trouble shooting.

Alarming and Logging

Streetcom Cloud provides built-in alarms for different asset classes including lights, gateways, etc., which can be configured to send email notifications. The system constantly monitors lighting controllers for failure conditions such as lamp failure, night outages, day burners,etc., and report status several times each day to expedite failure notifications. The map/floor plan view highlights a s s e t s with alarms enabling users to quickly and easily locate and troubleshoot problems. The alarm logs maintain a record of the all reported failures by asset, providing a way to search and filter for specific issues. The alarms logs can also be exported as a CSV data file for additional processing.

Reporting

The reporting engine provides several built-in reports that can be run on an individual asset, selected assets, or an entire city. Energy reports provide an easy way to track energy use and compare performance across different lighting assets. Data log reports enable trending selected points (e.g. light level, wattage, schedules, etc.) for a defined period of time to help analyze behavior and track any anomalies. All reports can be exported to CSV or PDF formats.