San Leandro – USA

Located in San Francisco Bay Area, San Leandro is a community of about 92,000 people. Like most locations in California, the city is expected to directly suffer the effects of climate change, with increasing episodes of flooding, drought, extreme heat, severe storms, and wildfire. The city has a clear committment to sustainability and defined a Climate Action Plan as a comprehensive strategy to adapt to changing climate conditions and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Challenges

San Leandro committed to achieving emissions reductions of 40% below 2005 levels by 2030 and 80% below 2005 levels by 2050. In 2016, the City Council selected Climatec, an energy services company, to install USD 5.2 million in energy and water saving equipment, asking for a guarantee that savings would cover 100% of the costs of the improvements and related debt services.

Our solution

About 5,000 streetlights were replaced with smart LED lamps, implementing our Smart Urban Network as centralized management and control system. The existing city’s fibre optics network was used for high-speed communications.

In Summer 2017, students from Harvey Mudd College (including a San Leandro High School graduate) interned with Pilot City to develop a Smart Waste Monitoring pilot solution for street trash cans that connected to the Smart Urban Network.

Results

Climatec calculated that the entire investment will generate USD 8 million saving over 15 years through strategic reductions in energy and water use, and USD 1.5 million in positive cash flow over that time. In addition to the financial benefits, San Leandro’s investments in clean infrastructure will reduce GHG emissions by 1,390 metric tons annually, the equivalent of 3.3 million miles driven in a year.

Paradox Engineering’s infrastructure prepared the city to support multiple smart city applications and services, such as integrated parking systems, public wireless internet service, traffic video surveillance, and more.

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