Juganu puts an excellent idea into practice - using existing city infrastructure & enhancing it with the latest technology to create a smart lighting solution. The Israeli-based technology company has offices in the U.S., Brazil, and Mexico. Their Smart Street light platform is a lighting solution that is installed on existing streetlight poles where each light integrates wireless communications, a sensor hub, full HD visual sensors, audio sensors, and compute capabilities at the edge. Their technology can be deployed in both outdoor environments ranging from small areas to city-wide regions, and indoor environments (e.g., smart buildings, retail, horticulture, etc.), and can address a wide variety of smart-city IoT use cases like automatic meter reading, traffic light management, waste management, etc. 
 

This is where I come in. Let's just say this was my most ambitious creative project yet, and the result was incredible. I carefully planned over a week-long period with the marketing director to film the installation on Wilson Boulevard in Arlington, VA. The streetscape was empty at 6 am, and as the sun poured into the area I got to work photographing my first timelapse, which turned out to be over 4 hours long and included some 3,000 photos. One of the team members handed me a hot coffee from a local cafe down the street, and the trucks got to work. I spent a majority of the day filming the installation, watching the outside dining tables fill up with people as restaurants got busy. By twilight, the lights were fully installed and I was able to see them in full effect. Stay tuned for my next project with them in Philadelphia!