1001 Smart Cities
🇮🇹 Lonato del Garda

Citywide Smart Lighting & Sensor Network

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Lonato, on Lake Garda, replaced 6,843 public light points with remotely managed LEDs under a nine-year Citelum (EDF Group) contract signed in 2016 (retrofit completed February 2018; the contractor reports a cut of over 60% in energy costs and CO2, the luminaire manufacturer's project sheet 68%). The poles are specified to carry adaptive street and crossing lighting, CCTV, WiFi, air-quality sensors and parking-occupancy monitoring, with a QR code on each light so residents can report faults from a phone.

Live 📅 since 2017
Outcome🎯 Succeeded
Evidence🏛️ Officialgrades the sourcing — this entry states no impact figure
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Run byCitelum (EDF Group)
Scale🏙️ City-wide
⚡ EnergySmart lightingSensors & IoTSafety & security

Sources

↗ Citelum (operator, EDF Group)Operator reference page: 6,843 points, 68% savings, QR fault-reporting, smart services.
↗ Cariboni Group (manufacturer)Project sheet: 6,843 light points, 68% projected savings, QR codes, smart services.
↗ Gardapost (press)Published 28 February 2018Regional press: retrofit completed February 2018.
↗ Radio Bruno Brescia (press)Public presentation of operating services (parking data, air quality); project start late 2017.
↗ Comune di Lonato del Garda (authority)Published 10 September 2024Municipal source on the ongoing CCTV layer expansion (ministerial co-funding, 2024).
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Evidence Passport · public beta 8 addressable claims, 5 source dossiers, one permanent baseline. The passport is unreviewed — an AI-assisted structural migration, not a human or expert endorsement. Every revision keeps a permanent copy under revision history.

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Claim 1 clm-d6ca88dd7eeefa87 quantitative
replaced 6,843 public light points
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What the mapping says
Cariboni Group's project sheet for Lonato del Garda states that "6,843 light sources were replaced" and that the old fixtures were exchanged for its LED luminaires (Flat Link, Kai, Kalos, Levante), "state-of-the-art high-performance LED products that integrate devices for smart city management". Citelum's reference page for the same contract carries the identical figure. Neither vendor page could be opened from here — citelum.com resets automated connections and caribonigroup.com answers with a Cloudflare block — so the wording was confirmed through search results for those two pages and no locator string could be lifted from the page itself.
Caveat
The count is the contractor's and the luminaire maker's own inventory figure. No municipal document among the sources states how many light points the town owns, so there is nothing to check it against.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Cariboni Group (manufacturer)
  2. Citelum (operator, EDF Group)
Claim 2 clm-00c64e6bb15e8e7e descriptive
with remotely managed LEDs
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What the mapping says
Gardapost quotes the municipality describing "sofisticati sistemi di regolazione degli impianti attraverso la gestione telecontrollata degli stessi" (sophisticated systems for regulating the installations through remote control of them), alongside night-time dimming of the light flux and lower-wattage LED sources. Citelum's reference page describes the light points as remotely managed individually or as a group and fitted with an auto-diagnosis system that alerts maintenance teams to a failure.
Caveat
Both accounts of the control layer come from the parties that built it — the municipality's statement to the press and the operator's own page. Neither publishes how many points are actually addressable today.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Gardapost (press)
  2. Citelum (operator, EDF Group)
Claim 3 clm-6cbc6d25c91a12e9 quantitative
under a nine-year Citelum (EDF Group) contract signed in 2016
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What the mapping says
Citelum's reference page for Lonato del Garda states that the contract was signed in 2016 for nine years and covers lighting renovation together with smart-city services. Gardapost independently identifies the contractor as "La societa francese Citelum, del gruppo EDF" and calls it "il gestore", the operator of the installation. Neither vendor page could be opened from here — citelum.com resets automated connections and caribonigroup.com answers with a Cloudflare block — so the wording was confirmed through search results for those two pages and no locator string could be lifted from the page itself.
Caveat
The contract term and the signature year rest on the operator's own page; no procurement record, council resolution or contract value is cited by any source here.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Citelum (operator, EDF Group)
  2. Gardapost (press)
Claim 4 clm-008acaad664d2a9a quantitative
retrofit completed February 2018
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What the mapping says
Gardapost, published 28 February 2018 under the headline "Completata la riqualificazione illuminotecnica ed energetica", reports that Citelum "ha portato a termine l'ambizioso progetto di riqualificazione illuminotecnica ed energetica della cittadina bresciana" (has completed the ambitious lighting and energy retrofit of the Brescia town) and shows the mayor and the councillor presenting it with the contractor at a press conference that morning.
Caveat
The report follows the presentation the municipality and the contractor gave that day; it records the completion announcement rather than an inspection of the finished installation.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Gardapost (press)
Claim 5 clm-596bdbb7cf7162ad quantitative
the contractor reports a cut of over 60% in energy costs and CO2, the luminaire manufacturer's project sheet 68%
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What the mapping says
Cariboni's project sheet says "68% of energy savings are expected with the equivalent reduction of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere", attributing them to the combination of the new LED optics and remotely controlled flux regulation. Gardapost quotes the town hall saying that after Citelum's work the municipality "potra infatti certificare oltre il 68% di risparmio energetico con equivalente riduzione delle emissioni di CO2 in atmosfera" (will indeed be able to certify over 68% energy savings).
Caveat
The figure is a projection attached to the design, not a measured outcome: the manufacturer calls it expected, and the municipality speaks of savings it will be able to certify. Citelum's own page puts the reduction in energy costs and CO2 at over 60% rather than 68%, and no source publishes metered consumption before and after the retrofit.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Cariboni Group (manufacturer)
  2. Gardapost (press)
Claim 6 clm-a28e073036b20ac3 descriptive
The poles are specified to carry
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What the mapping says
Cariboni's sheet describes the installed luminaires as "state-of-the-art high-performance LED products that integrate devices for smart city management" and presents the retrofit as having turned the town "into a smart city", with connected public lighting offering services to citizens, businesses and the administration. Neither vendor page could be opened from here — citelum.com resets automated connections and caribonigroup.com answers with a Cloudflare block — so the wording was confirmed through search results for those two pages and no locator string could be lifted from the page itself.
Caveat
This is the luminaire maker's account of what its equipment is designed to carry. No source in the list describes an audit of which devices were actually mounted or how many poles carry more than a lamp.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Cariboni Group (manufacturer)
Claim 7 clm-29a92bf9555ac4cc descriptive
adaptive street and crossing lighting, CCTV, WiFi, air-quality sensors and parking-occupancy monitoring
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What the mapping says
Cariboni lists exactly this set: "The services offered to the city include adaptive lighting of streets and pedestrian crossings, CCTV video surveillance, Wi-Fi hot spots, air quality control units, illuminated information panels with variable message and monitoring and analysis of parking levels in car parks." Gardapost names the same equipment with one omission, listing "l'illuminazione adattiva delle strade e degli attraversamenti pedonali, video sorveglianza, sistemi Wi-FI, centraline di controllo ambientale, monitoraggio ed analisi dei livelli di stazionamento nei parcheggi". The municipality's own 2024 release shows the camera layer still being extended, its councillor for innovation calling the new cameras "Nuove tecnologie preziose per lo sviluppo della Smartcity lonatese".
Caveat
Both lists describe what the infrastructure was built to offer at handover rather than services observed running, and the information panels appear only on the manufacturer's sheet. The town's 2024 release also shows cameras being procured separately by the municipality with ministry money, so it is not evidence that the surveillance layer sits on the lighting contract's poles.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Cariboni Group (manufacturer)
  2. Gardapost (press)
  3. Comune di Lonato del Garda (authority)
Claim 8 clm-ce10cf8167dabc7b descriptive
with a QR code on each light so residents can report faults from a phone
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What the mapping says
Gardapost quotes the municipality on "un innovativo sistema di QR CODE che, assegnati a ciascun punto luce, ne consentono un'immediata ed univoca identificazione", to the benefit of the citizen "che potra agevolmente segnalare un'eventuale anomalia tramite smartphone a un call center dedicato" (who can easily report a fault by smartphone to a dedicated call centre). Cariboni's sheet carries the same description, and Citelum's reference page says the light points carry a QR code through which citizens notify functioning issues.
Caveat
The reports go to a dedicated call centre rather than into an app, and none of the sources publishes how many faults residents have reported this way or how quickly they were fixed.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Gardapost (press)
  2. Cariboni Group (manufacturer)
  3. Citelum (operator, EDF Group)
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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Citelum (EDF Group)
Actor types
private
Funding model
ppp
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5 source dossiers

Citelum (operator, EDF Group) citelum.com · 4 linked claims

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Publisher
Name not classified · citelum.com
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web-page · language not classified
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Record last verified
2026-07-18
Dossier created
2026-08-22
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Operator reference page: 6,843 points, 68% savings, QR fault-reporting, smart services.

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Cariboni Group (manufacturer) caribonigroup.com · 5 linked claims

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Name not classified · caribonigroup.com
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web-page · language not classified
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Record last verified
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Project sheet: 6,843 light points, 68% projected savings, QR codes, smart services.

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Gardapost (press) gardapost.it · 6 linked claims

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Publisher
Name not classified · gardapost.it
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web-page · language not classified
Published
2018-02-28
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Record last verified
2026-07-18
Dossier created
2026-08-22
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Regional press: retrofit completed February 2018.

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Radio Bruno Brescia (press) radiobrunobrescia.it · background

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Name not classified · radiobrunobrescia.it
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Record last verified
2026-07-18
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2026-08-22
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Public presentation of operating services (parking data, air quality); project start late 2017.

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Comune di Lonato del Garda (authority) comune.lonato.bs.it · 1 linked claim

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src-951629294667b6f3
Publisher
Name not classified · comune.lonato.bs.it
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web-page · language not classified
Published
2024-09-10
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Record last verified
2026-07-18
Dossier created
2026-08-22
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Municipal source on the ongoing CCTV layer expansion (ministerial co-funding, 2024).

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
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  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.

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🇮🇳 Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) · New Delhi 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. 🇪🇸 SmartSantander · Santander Santander's 2010-13 EU pilot instrumented lighting and parking with 12,000 sensors; Lonato runs the same multi-sensor idea operationally. 🇧🇷 Ilumina SP Centralized LED Mesh Retrofit · São Paulo 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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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Citywide Smart Lighting & Sensor Network” — Lonato del Garda, Italy. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/lonato-smart-lighting/ (last verified 2026-07-18). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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