The Global Smart Street Lighting Market 3rd Edition

Electrified public street lighting infrastructure has been around since the late 19th century toimprove vehicle and pedestrian safety as well as to provide increased comfort to all users of thestreets. Today, several hundred million street lights have been installed worldwide and thetechnology is now close to ubiquitous in all major urban areas of the developed world. The streetlighting infrastructure however often constitute major cost centres in terms of energyconsumption and maintenance work, and also account for a significant share of the totalgreenhouse gas emissions that a city generates. In addition, static lighting schemes contributeto unnecessary light pollution, which could have harmful impacts on both humans andenvironmental ecosystems. Along with the developments in IoT communications and energy-efficient LED technology, smart street lighting systems that enable remote monitoring, controland management of street lighting networks have emerged to address these issues and allowauthorities and utilities to achieve significant cost and energy savings while at the same timeimproving the societal benefits provided to citizens. In recent years, smart street lightinginfrastructure has moreover emerged as a promising platform for the management of a varietyof additional smart city devices.

Berg Insight estimates that the global installed base of individually controlled smart street lightsamounted to 32.9 million units at the end of 2024. Growing at a CAGR of 20.9 percent, thenumber will reach 85.0 million in 2029. Europe is the leading adopter and today accounts foraround 35 percent of the global installed base. North America is the second largest market andalso constitutes the fastest growing market. A variety of proprietary RF networking platformstogether account for 57 percent of the individually controlled street lights while cellular and PLCcommunications are the second and third most common connectivity technologies respectively.At the end of 2024, the leading smart street lighting vendor was Signify with an installed base ofnearly 5.8 million lighting controls, followed by US-based Itron and the Chinese vendor FondaTechnology.