Telensa's Planet to replace 600 street lights in Hong Kong

Telensa’s Planet system will replace around 600 streetlights in Yuen Long Town to help provide a low-cost platform for smart city applications. The company was chosen by the highways department of the Hong Kong special administrative region government. Planet is an intelligent street lighting system that is said to pay for itself in reduced energy and maintenance costs as well as improve quality of service through automatic fault reporting.
April 18, 2018 Read time: 1 min

7574 Telensa’s Planet system will replace around 600 streetlights in Yuen Long Town to help provide a low-cost platform for smart city applications. The company was chosen by the highways department of the Hong Kong special administrative region government.

Planet is an intelligent street lighting system that is said to pay for itself in reduced energy and maintenance costs as well as improve quality of service through automatic fault reporting.

Engineering services group South King-Kum Shing JV is leading the pilot programme.

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