Telensa’s Central Management System provides a step change in operational efficiencies and supports the municipality’s sustainability and carbon reduction objectives.
Telensa, the leading global provider of connected street lighting and smart city applications, today announced that its market-leading smart street lighting and Central Management System (CMS), PLANet, has been selected as part of a major streetlight modernisation programme in the municipality of Uberlândia, Brazil.
Read more: Telensa deploys massive smart streetlighting project in Uberlândia, Brazil
Some 84 million Brazilians are using services delivered online, according to government figures.
The Brazilian government estimates that more than 60% of the country's connected population - about 84 million people - is using digital citizen services.
The latest numbers from the Digital Government Secretariat (DGS) at the Ministry of Economy are based on research from the National Internet Steering Committee, which estimates that currently 134 million Brazilians have access to the Internet.
Read more: Majority of Brazil's connected population uses digital citizen services
After the national IoT plan, a digital transformation strategy and discussions around a 5G policy, the Brazilian government has launched a new smart cities program.
An old program, launched in 2012 and called Cidades Digitais, aimed mostly to interconnect city-managed buildings with a fiber optic ring.
Over 200 localities have received infrastructure and related initiatives under this program, which is being terminated.
For the first time since surveys on internet access began, more than half of the rural population in Brazil is now connected to the internet.
The milestone represents opportunities for companies providing connection and services over the internet, such as OTTs, platforms for e-government, and e-commerce facilitations.
Read more: Brazil reaches internet milestone for rural areas
The digital divide between urban and rural schools in Brazil, captured in different studies throughout the years, has not changed. In fact, this gap might have even increased.
According to the latest ICT Education study, carried out by the research arm of Brazil’s internet steering committee CGI, just 34% of the schools in rural areas had a computer connected to the internet at the end of 2018.
Read more: Over 65% of Brazilian rural schools lack internet access