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IoT Smart Street Lighting Pilot with TCS (Kolkata Municipal Corporation)

In February 2026, Kolkata Municipal Corporation signed an agreement with Tata Consultancy Services to build a centralised, IoT-enabled street-lighting system, starting with a pilot in the Alipore and Kalighat neighbourhoods ahead of a planned four-zone (north-central, south, east, west) citywide rollout. The system is meant to pair LED retrofits with automated scheduling, intelligent dimming and centralised fault detection, alerting electrical-department staff automatically when a light fails rather than waiting for a resident complaint. TCS and KMC have publicly cited a target of up to 27% lower energy costs and fewer outages, but that figure is the companies' own stated goal from the signing announcement, not a measured result — the pilot had barely begun at review time.

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🎓 Lesson

A vendor-cited efficiency percentage announced alongside a signing ceremony is a target, not a result — worth revisiting once the Alipore/Kalighat pilot has actually run for a year.

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Sources

↗ Kolkata's Green Lighting Future: KMC Partners with TCSFebruary 2026 announcement: pilot in Alipore/Kalighat, four-zone rollout plan, centralised IoT lighting control, stated 27% energy-cost target

↗ Civic Body Signs Agreement with TCS For Smart Lighting Solutions Across KolkataCorroborates the KMC-TCS agreement, pilot locations, and automated fault-detection/dimming features

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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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “IoT Smart Street Lighting Pilot with TCS (Kolkata Municipal Corporation)” — Kolkata, India. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/kolkata-kmc-tcs-smart-lighting/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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