Street-lighting survey map: poles coloured by condition

Surveys · A local authority

Street-lighting survey and a lighting-management dashboard

Every lighting pole numbered, photographed and recorded by app straight into GIS, linked to its control box, with a lighting-management dashboard.

Street-light poles coloured by condition

Client: A local authority
Field: Surveys
Source: Field survey by mobile app

Street-lighting dashboard with counters and a pole map — Street-lighting management dashboard

The challenge

When a report comes in about a dark street light, someone has to know which pole it is, what fixture it carries and which control box feeds it. Without a proper inventory, every fault starts with a search on the ground.

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The solution

Field surveyors tagged each pole with a weather-proof number, photographed it and recorded in a mobile app its height, pole type, number of fixtures, arm length and colour, along with the control box it belongs to. The data went straight into a GIS layer, and survey progress was shown live on an interactive map.

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The outcome

The lighting team finds any pole by its number, sees its photo, attributes and control box, and manages street lighting from one dashboard. The data is also available as AutoCAD, Excel and PDF files.