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title: Northeast Group smart streetlight market forecast 2020
description: Smart street lighting has grown at a robust CAGR of 52% since 2012 and will maintain steady growth through the 2020s.
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# Global Smart Street Lighting & Smart Cities: Market Forecast (2020-2029)

## Across 125 countries, 185 million LED streetlights will be added over the next ten years whilst cities & utilities will network 71 million streetlights

### The 6th edition of Northeast Group's study - the industry standard for research on the global street lighting market

LEDs will be the dominant technology for street lighting going forward and savings from LEDs will help drive additional applications.

Network streetlights with 'smart controls' accentuate all the savings benefits of LEDs, whilst also improving public safety and putting in place the communications and software infrastructure that can be used for further smart city applications.  

 

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