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🇯🇲 Kingston

JPS Smart LED Lamppost Rollout

JPS has converted 105,000+ high-pressure-sodium streetlights to smart LEDs islandwide (targeting ~110,000), with Kingston and St Andrew over 90% complete by early 2021 and full island coverage targeted for December that year.

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Evidence🏛️ Official
Scale🌍 National

📖 Terms in this entry: Adaptive traffic signals · Digital twin · LoRaWAN

Sources

↗ Jamaica Public Service Company (operator)Official corporate documentation tracking grid transformation stages.
↗ Jamaica Gleaner (press)News coverage of the project.
↗ Jamaica Gleaner — 105,000 mark (press)News coverage of the project.

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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🇱🇻 Automated LED Smart Streetlight Mesh · Riga Riga's municipal agency retrofit 2,716 lights by 2021; Kingston's private utility JPS converted over 105,000 that same year. 🇦🇺 Smart PE-Cell LED Street Lighting Network · Melbourne Both are utility-run LED retrofits: JPS converted 105,000+ lights islandwide by 2021; Melbourne's ~15,000 ride CitiPower's smart-meter net. 🇦🇹 LED it Shine: Citywide Smart Street Lighting Retrofit · Vienna Two citywide LED retrofits at similar scale: Kingston/St Andrew hit 90%+ by 2021; Vienna was at 81% of ~133,000 fixtures by late 2025.

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📟 A Reading Is Not a Decision💡 Smart lighting guide🏙️ Kingston city profile⚡ Energy projects
📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “JPS Smart LED Lamppost Rollout” — Kingston, Jamaica. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/kingston-smart-lighting/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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