April 16 - Jacksonville debuts high-tech streetlights and they're watching you
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They may be on nearly every street that residents drive on, but Jacksonville's streetlights are about to get a whole lot smarter.
Through a pilot program with GE Lighting, JEA and the city, Downtown and surrounding neighborhoods will be outfitted with about 50 data-collecting LED streetlights, as part of the GE Intelligent City Initiative, announced Thursday morning.
As the first city on the East Coast to have this technology and the second in the world, behind San Diego the move is an opportunity for Jacksonville to become a cutting-edge city, said Mayor Alvin Brown. This is another step forward, he said. We are a city on the move.
The lights which will come at no cost to taxpayers during the pilot program will be interconnected with one another and will collect real-time data, as seen in a presentation by GE. Not only will the LED lights be more cost-efficient, they will also connect lighting infrastructure to the Internet. GE's Predix software will then analyze the data so the city can use it.
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