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Pune's PPP LED Street Lighting & SCADA Network

Pune Municipal Corporation signed a 12-year design-build-finance-operate-maintain-transfer PPP in September 2016 to swap roughly 80,000 sodium and other conventional street lights for LEDs, monitored and switched through about 1,900 feeder-level SCADA units and a dedicated control centre, at no upfront cost to the city. The concessionaire's own case study claims energy savings above 61%. The fixtures remain a live target for theft — PMC has separately reported LED lamp thefts worth over ₹15 lakh from city streets — and PMC has since started adding thousands more lights in newly merged villages under the same programme.

Live 📅 since 2016

🤖 AI-generated summary of the sources below — how this works · 🔎 Last verified 2026-08-02

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📊 Impact

The PPP case study reports over 61% energy savings across roughly 80,000 retrofitted LED fixtures monitored via about 1,900 feeder-based SCADA units.

🎓 Lesson

A zero-cost-to-city PPP retrofit can deliver real energy savings on paper, but it doesn't protect the hardware — over ₹15 lakh of LED fixtures have since been stolen from PMC's own streets.

Evidence🏛️ Official

Scale🏙️ City-wide

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

Sources

↗ Champions of Change (ABP/NITI Aayog platform) — Pune street lighting PPP case studyGovernment case-study page: PPP structure, ~80,000 fixtures, ~1,900 feeder SCADA units, >61% claimed energy savings, 12-year O&M term.

↗ Pune Pulse — LED streetlight theftIndependent local-press counterweight: confirms the network is still physically live in 2026 and documents theft of over ₹15 lakh of LED fixtures.

↗ The Bridge Chronicle — new streetlights in merged villagesCurrency check: confirms the programme is still actively expanding (3,500 new lights approved for newly merged areas).

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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🇮🇳 T Nagar SCADA-Monitored Smart Streetlighting Pilot · Chennai Same SCADA-monitored LED genre in different Indian cities: Pune stayed citywide, Chennai's layer never left one pilot zone. 🇮🇳 Pune's Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) · Pune Pune's own ICCC feeds pull in street-lighting data — this PPP retrofit is likely the network the command centre watches. 🇦🇹 LED it Shine: Citywide Smart Street Lighting Retrofit · Vienna Both are phased LED retrofits with SCADA-style remote control, built with sensors meant to be added later. 🇮🇳 IoT Smart Street Lighting Pilot with TCS (Kolkata Municipal Corporation) · Kolkata Another Indian city LED-and-SCADA street lighting PPP — Pune signed its 12-year deal in 2016, years before Kolkata's TCS pilot even began.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Pune's PPP LED Street Lighting & SCADA Network” — Pune, India. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/pune-street-lighting-scada/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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