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Lonato del Garda

Name: Lonato del Garda
Address: Italy

Country: Italy
Population: 17.1K
Projects: 2
First project: 2015
Best evidence: Official
Last verified: 18 July 2026
In the atlas since: 18 July 2026

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A town of 17,000 on the southern shore of Lake Garda that punches far above its weight: a 2016 performance contract turned all 6,843 street lights into a remotely managed LED network whose poles carry cameras, WiFi, air-quality sensors and parking monitoring — down to a QR code on every lamp for fault reports. Since 2016 the lake-wide utility Garda Uno has also charged electric cars here, powered by solar panels on local schools.

The atlas documents 2 projects in Lonato del Garda, the earliest dating to 2015: 1 with a documented success, 1 still running without a verdict. Every entry carries an evidence grade — the strongest here is official (2 entries) — and links its sources.

All 2 projects in Lonato del Garda

✔ Every published entry is checked against the public sources it cites before publication.

🚲 Lake Garda Solar-Backed EV Charging Network 🏛️ Official since 2015 · Live → ⚡ Citywide Smart Lighting & Sensor Network 🏛️ Official since 2017 · Live →

Outcome: 1 succeeded · 1 ongoing — Evidence: 2 official

Deeper reads

Where Lonato del Garda appears in the atlas's own analysis.

🏆 1 in the what-worked record 🧾 Passport: Citywide Smart Lighting & Sensor Network

Compare with other cities

🇮🇳 New Delhi Delhi EV Policy & Discom-Tendered Public Charging Delhi shows the same public-land logic at city scale: ~100 pooled parcels tendered for ~900 charging points at ~2 rupees a unit. 🇬🇧 London Sharing Cities — Greenwich Smart District Solar-backed charging, two models: Garda's school-roof PV feeds a lake-wide charger network; Greenwich built EV points into solar lampposts. 🇦🇪 Dubai Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park Solar put to work at opposite scales: Dubai's 3.8 GW park feeds the grid; Garda's school-roof PV directly powers its lake-wide EV chargers. 🇧🇷 São Paulo Ilumina SP Centralized LED Mesh Retrofit Sao Paulo's IluminaSP PPP retrofitted 500,000+ streetlights by 2023; Lonato's smaller Citelum deal manages 6,843 poles since 2016.

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🇮🇳 New Delhi: Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) Streetlights as sensor platform at two scales: Lonato fitted 6,843 poles with CCTV and air sensors; Delhi's ICCC dims 14,000+ for energy.
🇪🇸 Santander: SmartSantander Santander's 2010-13 EU pilot instrumented lighting and parking with 12,000 sensors; Lonato runs the same multi-sensor idea operationally.

Official strategy and sources

↗ Comune di Lonato del Garda — the entries here are run by Citelum (EDF Group) under a municipal contract and by Garda Uno, the lake municipalities' joint multi-utilityThe organization driving the city's smart-city work.

📎 Cite this city

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Smart-city projects in Lonato del Garda, Italy.” The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/cities/lonato-del-garda/ (last verified 2026-07-18). Data: CC BY 4.0.

The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.

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