Helping You Develop a Smarter City

By Llewellyn King - Benjamin Franklin was the first to deploy street lighting. He put candles in a four-sided, glass case for his lights. The engineering took a giant leap forward in England, when William Murdoch lit his home with coal gas lights in 1792. Today street lighting is taken as a given, like waterborne sewage. But it’s also one of the building blocks for the cities of the future, known as “smart cities.”

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By Collins Mwai -- The fast growing urbanisation in Rwanda is often characterised by an increase of street lighting across different city roads which often puts pressure on city authorities as it drives up energy consumption. 

A synergy of three firms has come together in an attempt to reduce energy consumption by street lighting by introducing an intelligent system which is aiming at reducing energy consumption.