Plateau Connected Street Lighting

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121 street lamps in Abidjan's business district can each be dimmed and driven from a desk. The commune inaugurated them in February 2026 and has published no energy figure to show whether anything was saved.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence📰 Mediagrades the sourcing — this entry states no impact figure

what does this mean?

The strongest source is press reporting; no primary evaluation was located. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →

Run byMairie du Plateau with Eclatec

Scale🏘️ District

Costreported as EUR 500,000-600,000

FundingFASEP grant from the French Treasury (Direction generale du Tresor) plus a municipal contribution

Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 5 more in Abidjan · 💡 Smart lighting guide · ⚡ Energy projects

The commune of Plateau signed a convention with the French lighting manufacturer Eclatec on 25 January 2023, funded through FASEP, a grant instrument of the French Treasury. Guided by a lighting master plan (SDAL) that mapped the existing installations, 121 connected lamps went up on Boulevard de la Republique, Avenue Chardy and Rue Anatole Joseph Anoma and were inaugurated on 24 February 2026. The system is described as adjustable to use and remotely managed from each individual light point. Reported costs diverge: one account gives EUR 500,000 from the French Treasury plus about 100 million FCFA from the commune, another puts the total near EUR 600,000.

Live 📅 since 2023

🎓 Lesson

The commune states security, energy and carbon goals for the installation but publishes no measured saving — the recurring pattern in lighting retrofits, where telemanagement is bought first and metered later, if at all.

⚡ Energy Smart lighting Sensors & IoT

Sources

↗ RTI Infos (media)25 February 2026, on the inauguration held the day before. Gives the 121 lamps and the three streets, and the technical description: « un systeme d'eclairage public intelligent, ajustable selon les usages et telegere a partir de chaque point lumineux ». Costs: EUR 500,000 (about 328 million FCFA) from the French Treasury plus a municipal contribution of roughly 100 million FCFA. Also mentions a wider 'Smart Plateau' programme including a digital twin — not verified here and deliberately not claimed.

↗ Le Mentor (media)25 February 2026. Same 121 lamps on Boulevard de la Republique and Avenue Chardy, point-by-point remote piloting, the SDAL as the planning instrument, ECLATEC as the private partner under the FASEP mechanism, and a total figure of « 600 000 euros » — the divergence with RTI's EUR 500,000 is why the entry reports a range. States no measured energy saving.

↗ CIO Mag (media)27 January 2023, dating the start: convention signed 25 January 2023 at the Plateau town hall by deputy-mayor Ehouo Jacques and Eclatec's operations director Lionel Bertrand, for « des lampadaires connectes avec logiciel de gestion intelligente d'energie », under FASEP.

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🇧🇷 Ilumina SP Centralized LED Mesh Retrofit · São Paulo Point-addressable street lighting at opposite scales: São Paulo relit a city, Abidjan wired 121 lamps in one district. 🇩🇰 Copenhagen's LED Streetlight Retrofit & Remote Control Network · Copenhagen Both replaced lamps with individually controllable ones; only the Danish rollout covers a whole city. 🇦🇴 Luanda's Traffic Signals: The Control Room That Stopped Working · Luanda Two Central and West African street systems installed with remote control — one just switched on, one that stopped working.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Plateau Connected Street Lighting” — Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/abidjan-plateau-connected-lighting/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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