Liveable Cities

Liveable Cities is a division of LED Roadway Lighting Ltd., a Canadian-owned and operated clean technology company. Founded in 2007, we are headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with our primary manufacturing facility in Amherst, Nova Scotia. Liveable Cities focuses on smart city applications by using advanced sensors and powerful software to produce valuable, actionable insights.

Our smart street lighting products are used worldwide in over 60 countries. Liveable Cities provides a full solution for smart cities, including LED streetlights, network technology, smart sensors and software. Our LED streetlights’ are well-known throughout the world for their long life, low maintenance costs, and ability to withstand tough environments. SLX network controllers are modular and “smart ready”, allowing for tool-less installation of various smart city sensors. The streetlights’ location and access to constant power creates an opportunity to deploy smart sensors with a wireless connected system. Our SmartLinx Smart City Platform provides a user-friendly, scalable, and highly configurable tool to manage their smart city applications.

Designed in Canada, our LED street lighting luminaires are well-known throughout the world for their long life, low maintenance costs and ability to withstand tough environments. The modular designs of our products make them easy to update with technological improvements or to add smart city features to them. We believe that LED streetlights should be designed with the future in mind, ready to adapt to advances in LED, network and smart city technology.

Presence based detectors are placed on every street light, utilizing our Data Acquisition Platform (DAP). Lighting is operated at lower output (e.g. 30% output), and when presence of a person or vehicle is detected, the lighting at the detecting light, as well as its neighbours within broadcast range of the radio, is raised to the target level of output (i.e. 100%). Lighting is always at approved light levels. Light levels should be based on hyper-local and real-time traffic conditions. By turning lights with a 100% “dim override” based on increases in traffic volume, you are operating in lighting conditions reflective current traffic status.

SLX Micro-Sensing Platform is a new and innovative lighting control platform. Adding our sensors to your lighting network is your gateway to the Smart City. Micro-sensing is a new, scalable way to collect more information to inform decisions, at a fraction of the cost of traditional sensors. This is a complimentary technology meant to augment traditional sensors, not to replace them entirely.