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Aberdeen City council is unlocking sustainability and decarbonisation improvements across the city through an intelligent street lighting project.
The ‘Lighting Up Aberdeen’ project is part of a partnership with IoT service and solutions provider, North, and is helping the local authority create a greener future through the use of energy-efficient lighting across the city.
The project has seen a state-of-the-art IoT solution installed to manage and monitor more than 37,000 street lighting units remotely, enhancing the city’s lighting provision, whilst simultaneously helping to create a greener and safer city for the people of Aberdeen.
Through the new solution, there is now no need for the manual process of checking lights, significantly reducing carbon emissions from travelling, while custom dimming profiles can be used to manage the level of energy required at any given time and automated fault reporting has allowed for more efficient maintenance.
To date, Lighting Up Aberdeen has delivered considerable carbon reductions through a reduction in energy use and, in turn, the council has seen significant savings across street lighting electricity bills.
The project has also been recognised across the UK, winning the Sustainable Customer Project of the Year category at the recent CRN Tech Impact Awards. North was awarded for its work with Aberdeen City Council, providing the local authority with a city-wide LoRaWAN IoT network and Central Management System (CMS) based Intelligent Lighting solution.
North’s intelligent technology solutions are supporting Aberdeen City Council with its Net Zero Aberdeen Route Map, a city-wide approach to reducing carbon emissions, and helping Aberdeen become a smart city.
Scott McEwan, acting CEO at North, said: “Aberdeen City Council is a forward-thinking local authority, using the capabilities of intelligent lighting to enrich its communities to become greener and safer.
“We are incredibly proud to receive recognition from CRN for the work we are helping to deploy across the region and look forward to continuing this relationship as we collaborate with Aberdeen City Council to further utilise the IoT network.”
According to Pitney Bowes Parcel Shipping Index, worldwide parcel volume is likely to double in the next five years, with the UK showing the highest increase in carrier revenue of all 13 countries in the Index.
Alongside a huge uptake in the volume of parcel volume and spend, post pandemic, the adoption of hybrid working patterns means that FMs need to find ways to enable staff to book / host collaborative meetings in available workspaces and to find desk, office and parking spaces by utilising automation and data capture to enable site governance.
Yet a recent survey by FMJ in partnership with Pitney Bowes found that 20 per cent of recipients are still using manual paper-based visitor systems, which doesn’t fit with their top priority – to maintain a safe and operational environment.
This overwhelming reliance on paper-based systems is causing many respondents bottlenecks, resulting in a lack of efficiently in logging and tracking packages and people coming into the organisation.
In this webinar, Gary Abbott Director of Business Development and Stuart Bushaway, Head of Dealers Operations and FM Relationships at Pitney Bowes will outline the main findings of the two surveys and what this could mean for FMs, followed by a discussion, chaired by FMJ Editor Sara Bean with a panel of thought leaders into the solutions available to meet these challenges.
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