Street smarts -pilot programme
The Helsinki Innovation Districts project sought new smart lighting and street space analytics solutions via an open call for agile pilots. Three pilots were chosen.
The aim of agile pilots is to facilitate the development of good concepts into service innovations and new business. The proposed solutions will be tested in a real urban environment for a period of a few months.
The solutions provide user feedback, insight and practical experience. They will provide the companies carrying out the pilots and the City with information on what kind of solutions could work in Malmi, Malminkartano and elsewhere in Helsinki.
Malmi and Malminkartano to be used as testbeds
The goal of the pilot programme is to gain information on new and innovative lighting solutions that are especially well-suited to short-term and temporary guidance needs, such as indicating routes for events, marking construction sites or other short-term signage.
In addition to this, the goal is to learn about new technologies for collecting data from street spaces to support city planning and increase understanding of how these kinds of data collection methods could be incorporated into lighting infrastructure in the future.
