Massachusetts-based Cimcon Lighting is working with UK asset management services firm Yotta to help smart cities improve their streetlight infrastructure.

The collaboration will see the integration of Cimcon’s LightingGale smart lighting central management system and its NearSky smart city platform with Alloy, Yotta’s connected asset management platform. This will provide cities with enhanced data collection, data processing and asset management capabilities through an end-to-end offering that is said to solve the problem of simplifying data collection in digital cities.

Cimcon will be able to push data from both LightingGale and NearSky into the Alloy management system.

The NearSky smart city edge platform transforms a city’s existing streetlights into a smart city infrastructure by providing the three Ps of power, permitting and processing in a single device, removing the barriers that cities traditionally face when implementing sensors, devices and applications.

NearSky provides a fiscally neutral path to improving municipal operations, enhancing public services, and generating revenues for partners across the pole economy ecosystem, including data analysts, system integrators, app developers, urban surface providers, municipalities, device providers, financial institutions and network companies.

“We’ve been aware of Cimcon’s pioneering work in the pole economy for some time and we’re delighted to be collaborating,” said Anique Bravenboer, alliance manager at Yotta. “The collaboration is testament to both Cimcon and Yotta’s cutting edge underlying technologies, which allow our solutions to integrate quickly and easily. Together we can provide an instant solution for a market that is becoming increasingly aware of the value of multi-service hybrid networks.”

The Alloy platform seamlessly connects people, systems and assets, is scalable across a myriad of asset types, and integrates with all systems through APIs.

“Yotta’s Alloy platform is the perfect fit for our LightingGale and NearSky,” said Mark Cullum, associate director at Cimcon Lighting. “Yotta’s asset management capabilities will serve as a vital component that will help cities become smarter through fast, accurate and effective access to data from sensors and applications that monitor traffic and air pollutants, measure air quality, monitor for floods, and detect threats from existing streetlamps. In addition, Alloy will enable us to offer an end-to-end platform including live asset management that will provide cities and councils with a single system for monitoring and tracking of sensors, lighting node and driver faults, issuing tickets and reporting on these issues in a paper free environment.”

Cimcon’s smart lighting provides an easy way to control, manage and maintain streetlights across all terrains and city densities. NearSky transforms an existing streetlight infrastructure into a foundation for smart city applications.

Yotta is a connected asset management software and services provider. The company’s cloud-based asset management platform Alloy equips its clients with data visualisation, workflow management tools, and enterprise strength and user-specific capabilities.