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Conflow To Deploy 50,000 Solar Powered Smart Lamps

BBC Radio 4 London 13d13d Impact 5
British firm Conflow plans to deploy 50,000 solar-powered smart lamps known as iLams. The lamps utilize an internal GPU and solar power to operate autonomously at the edge. This design aims to provide large-scale computing capabilities without a single point of failure.

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smart cities edge computing IoT

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Sources · 7 independent

BBC Radio 4

“British firm Conflow to deploy 50,000 iLams, the firm's Solar powered smuts. an NVIDIA Jetson GPU, drawing 15 watts of power.”

BBC WS backup

“firm's solar-powered smart streetlights that can double as a distributed AI data. [...] we put a computer chip, or GPU, more commonly known as a GPU, inside the streetlight.”

BBC World Service

“The idea is that each Thomas and the pitfalls of this idea, I spoke to the boss of Conflow, Edward Fitzpatrick, at an appropriate outside location.”

BBC WS backup

“You've got one lamppost with one small computer inside it. So how does your lamppost compete with those giant with those giant warehouses full of computers.”

BBC WS backup

“The solar unit's not flat, it's circular. So there's a solar panel on top providing the power.”

BBC World Service

“the solar panel starts about here and goes all the way to the top. Then there's a light on top of that. The thing is, data centers are absolutely massive. You've got one lamppost with one small computer inside it.”

BBC World Service

“The solar panel starts about here and goes all the way to the top. Then there's a light on top of that. The thing is, data centers are absolutely massive.”

BBC Radio 4

“the solar panel is circular so it's a cylinder solar panel so it gets morning and evening light... We can put our streetlight on the grid so it can have solar as primary and grid as backup.”

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