Smart Street Lighting – RFI Responses Received

Summary

The Smart Street Lighting initiative seeks to modernize the City’s inventory of electric streetlight infrastructure to a more energy efficient, durable, lower-cost and safer system, with the inclusion of communications technology and other ancillary components.

Downtown Chicago at Night

Program

Energy

Stage *

RFI

Smart Street Lighting – RFI Responses Received Details

Context

Chicago has nearly 400,000 outdoor lights across the City.  With prices for longer-lasting and more energy efficient LED lights falling dramatically over the past five years, this is an opportune time for the City and the Chicago Park District to evaluate the full inventory of street, traffic and underpass lights for a complete retrofit.

The Smart Street Lighting project may also include several cost-effective, non-lighting technology upgrades in which the streetlights are used as a platform to deliver other public goods and services, raising revenues or eliminating costs in the process.  This could include technology such as wireless internet or emergency services applications.

Impact

User Experience

  • Improves safety
  • Platform for delivery of other goods and services

Environmental

  • Achieves Mayor’s 2015 Sustainability Goal #4 to improve overall energy efficiency in municipal buildings by 10%

Economic

  • Creates jobs
  • Reduces operating costs

Request for Information

 

RFI Respondents Log

ChicagoSmartLightingRFI Final_20150917

Smart Lighting Addendum No.1

 

 

Smart Street Lighting – RFI Responses Received Documents

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Title Date Initiative Type Format
RFI Respondents Log 01/11/2016 Smart Street Lighting – RFI Responses Received N/A PDF
Chicago Smart Lighting Addendum No.1 10/15/2015 Smart Street Lighting – RFI Responses Received RFI PDF
Chicago Smart Lighting Project Request for Information 09/17/2015 Smart Street Lighting – RFI Responses Received RFI PDF