SCEWC 2024: Transforming City Operations at the Edge

Imagine a future where cities are empowered to reduce power consumption by up to 50% leveraging a multi-application, secure and scalable solution. What if this same solution could be expanded to detect gas and water leaks, contributing to environmental sustainability? And what if this solution could also be used to monitor environmental conditions like air quality, noise, traffic and parking, as well as alert citizens of potential hazards, ultimately enhancing public safety? 
 
This future is possible—and at Itron, it’s already here. Join us at the Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) in Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 5-7 in Hall 3 booth B61, where we’ll showcase how we enable cities worldwide to address their most pressing challenges and priorities with our reimagined CityEdge portfolio.  

An Integrated Approach to Urban Challenges 

As urban populations continue to grow, innovative solutions and technologies are essential for creating resilient, safe and sustainable cities. ThoughtLab, a leader in assessing the effects of technology on cities and industries, recently conducted a study in 2024 across 250 cities to identify their primary challenges. The top challenge identified was climate change, followed by public health, affordable housing, crime and public safety, pollution and aging infrastructure. The Itron CityEdge portfolio was designed with these results in mind and to address these challenges in the following ways:  

Optimized Smart Lighting 

Inefficient legacy streetlights represent up to 40% of a city’s energy bill. With CityEdge, cities can measure energy consumption, schedule or adjust streetlight dimming in real-time, calculate carbon savings from LED lighting, enable adaptive lighting based on real-time conditions and receive notifications of faulty lights. 

Reduced Traffic and Highway Congestion 

The World Health Organization’s latest report on road safety reveals an alarming lack of progress in advancing laws and safety standards. Cities play a key role in this effort and can achieve a substantial reduction in roadway fatalities with CityEdge. The solution portfolio enables continuous monitoring of road conditions and pedestrian and bicycle activity, as well as sewer and gulley cleaning monitoring to alert the city of blockages and prevent floods. 

Increased Public Safety 

The need to uphold and increase public safety intensifies in sync with growing cities. That’s why CityEdge monitors and detects safety-related events, such as traffic incidents, damaged utility poles and excessive noise, through Itron’s real-time asset monitoring system. Cities can also use flood sensors for real-time alerts on flood risks. 

Environmental and Sustainability Reporting 

Increasing regulatory mandates for carbon reduction and sustainability are requiring cities to modernize their operations. CityEdge provides emissions tracking and reporting capabilities in real-time, in addition to solutions that reduce environmental impact, monitor air quality, identify gas leaks, track temperature fluctuations and conserve water with Itron’s smart irrigation system. 

Access to Energy, Water and Utility Applications  

Modern cities need access to a wide range of use cases to effectively address their unique challenges. Itron’s CityEdge solution portfolio establishes the technological foundation for integrating smart devices, electric vehicles and other distributed energy resources on one unified platform—positioning cities to meet the evolving needs of their communities today and in the future. 

With Itron’s CityEdge, the possibilities—and use cases—are endless. By leveraging multi-transport, intelligent connectivity and purpose-built applications, the solution portfolio enables significant transformation of city operations and improved business outcomes. At SCEWC, we’ll show you how. 

Connect with Itron at SCEWC 2024 
To learn more about Itron’s smart city innovations and experience the interactive demos of our CityEdge solution portfolio in action, visit booth B61 in Hall 3 at Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 5-7, 2024. See you there!