Smart Street Lighting: Return on Investment for Cities of the Future

Smart lighting is a gateway to the smart cities of the future. Smart lighting and IoT are the keys to the city of the future. By using these technologies, cities can improve safety, reduce costs, and increase energy efficiency. However, smart cities require a lot of work. New technologies are expensive, local governments are constrained, and politics is geared toward short election cycles, making it difficult to establish a highly operational and financially efficient centralized technology deployment model that is reused in areas urban areas on a global or national scale. In Morocco, we note an awareness regarding the installation of intelligent street lighting in different areas of the kingdom and the development of smart cities. However, there are questions about the return on investment of these smart lighting solutions. This work seeks to evaluate, through a qualitative study, the ROI of the implementation of intelligent public lighting in certain areas of the kingdom to identify the advantages and challenges encountered. The main results claim that smart lighting allows real-time energy monitoring, automatic adjustment of brightness according to weather conditions and human activity, and the specific need at the location of the light point.