AT&T Tests Smart Lights, BPL With Power Companies
AT&T is testing smart lighting in Atlanta with Georgia Power and General Electric’s Current, the company said in a Tuesday news release. The city and power company will pilot Current’s IoT sensor platform for cities and install 1,000 wirelessly controlled…
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LED lights. The companies plan to test the smart lighting in five areas of Atlanta, including the North Avenue Corridor where AT&T is testing other smart city technologies, the Buckhead Loop, a major business, retail and entertainment area, and near Atlanta’s football stadium. Meanwhile, AT&T is talking to power companies and others about trials of a broadband-over-power-lines (BPL) technology called Project AirGig, the carrier said in a news release Tuesday. AT&T plans trials in at least two locations by this fall of the technology that combines BPL and millimeter wave wireless, the carrier said. “One location will be in the United States with others to be determined in the coming months.”