Solar smart streetlighting
Off-grid solar poles with battery storage light every road and walkway — even through load-shedding — while adaptive dimming stretches each charge and cuts energy cost to near zero.
Solar-powered public safety for South Africa
Illuminate safety, sustainably.
Solar smart streetlights with integrated CCTV and AI monitoring — deterring crime and cutting energy costs on one flat monthly fee. No upfront capital, no grid dependence, no separate surveillance contract.
- 400
- Smart units live under contract
- $45
- Flat per-unit monthly fee
- R0
- Upfront capital required
- 10yr
- Municipal contract horizon
Fleet · live
Ridgeview precinctGrid energy used
0 kWh
100% solar today
Cameras online
128 / 128
All streaming
AI alerts (24h)
3
All resolved
Battery reserve
92%
≈ 3 nights buffer
CO₂ avoided this month: 4.7 tonnes — the equivalent of taking a car off the road for a year.
Illustrative dashboard · fictional sample data
Piloting with forward-thinking estates, malls & councils
Greenstone EstateRidgeview MallUmhlanga HOAKaroo District CouncilSandton PrecinctCoastal Ridge EstatesMidrand MetroGreenstone EstateRidgeview MallUmhlanga HOAKaroo District CouncilSandton PrecinctCoastal Ridge EstatesMidrand Metro
The problem
Safety, energy and budgets are pulling in three directions.
Municipalities and property owners are told to improve public safety, cut energy spend and honour tight budgets — all at once. Grid-tied lighting fails during load-shedding, CCTV is bought and maintained separately, and every upgrade demands capital that simply isn't there.
Dark streets during load-shedding
Grid-tied lights go out exactly when crime risk peaks.
CCTV bought separately
Cameras, connectivity and lighting are three contracts, three bills.
No capital for upgrades
Infrastructure improvements stall waiting on budget approval.
Rural sites left in the dark
Trenching and grid connection make remote lighting uneconomical.
The solution
One pole. Light, camera and AI — powered by the sun.
We combine three pain points into a single, self-financing asset. Every unit lights the street, watches over it, and pays for itself out of the savings it creates.
Integrated CCTV on every pole
A weather-hardened camera lives on the same pole as the light. One asset, one install — no separate surveillance contractor, no trenching, no duplicated infrastructure spend.
AI monitoring that deters crime
Edge AI watches for loitering, crowd formation and tampering, then routes alerts to your control room in seconds. Brighter light plus a visible camera is a deterrent before anything happens.
One flat opex fee
≈ $45/unit/month bundles hardware, connectivity, AI and maintenance. No capex, no surprise Eskom tariffs.
Load-shedding proof
Solar + storage keeps light and cameras running exactly when the grid — and safety — go dark.
Urban and rural
No grid connection needed, so remote roads and informal settlements finally become economical to light.
Maintained for you
We own the fleet. If a unit fails we fix or swap it at no extra charge for the life of the contract.
How it works
From dark corner to fully monitored — in four steps.
01
Free site survey & design
We map your roads, hotspots and dark corners and design a lighting-plus-camera layout tailored to the site — at no cost.
02
Install poles — no grid, no trenching
Self-contained solar poles go up fast. Nothing to connect to Eskom, no roads to dig up, minimal disruption.
03
Connect AI monitoring
Cameras and edge AI link to your control room or our monitoring desk. Alerts and dashboards go live from day one.
04
Pay one flat monthly fee
That's it. We maintain, monitor and upgrade the fleet while you get predictable safety on a single line item.
Who we serve
We lead with buyers who pay on time.
Private estates and malls prove the model and fund the rollout, so municipalities inherit a system that already works — not a science experiment.
Start herePrivate estates & HOAs
Boards that already pay for security and want to cut it while adding solar resilience. Fast decisions, quick pilots, on-time payment.
- Replace diesel-lit perimeters
- Cut guarding spend with AI alerts
- Board-friendly monthly fee
High intentShopping malls & precincts
Parking lots and approaches that need bright, always-on lighting and reliable footage for insurance and shopper confidence.
- Well-lit, safer parking
- Insurance-grade footage
- No capex off the P&L
Scale targetUrban & rural municipalities
Public safety and infrastructure upgrades with zero upfront capital — the model that scales from 400 to thousands of units.
- No capital budget needed
- Reach off-grid rural roads
- One 10-year opex contract
Why us
The only one that bundles all of it.
Great lighting, great cameras and great analytics already exist — but separately, and usually behind heavy capex. We fill the gap the incumbents leave open.
| Capability | Urban & Rural | BEKA Schréder | Signify Interact City | Vumacam |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solar / off-grid operation | Add-on | |||
| CCTV integrated on the pole | Add-on | |||
| Edge AI crime detection | Add-on | |||
| Zero upfront capex (opex model) | Add-on | |||
| Bundled maintenance & connectivity | Add-on | Add-on | Add-on | |
| Economical for rural / off-grid sites | Add-on |
Comparison reflects each provider's primary positioning for illustrative purposes. Competitor names are trademarks of their respective owners.
Simple pricing
One flat fee. Everything included.
Around $45 per unit, per month — bundling hardware amortization, connectivity, AI monitoring and maintenance across the contract. It undercuts Eskom-grid lighting plus a separate CCTV deployment, with zero upfront capital.
- Solar pole, battery, LED luminaire & camera
- Cellular / fibre connectivity
- Edge AI monitoring & control-room alerts
- All maintenance, replacements & upgrades
- No capex · no Eskom connection · no hidden fees
Fleet size
400units
Flat rate
$45/unit/mo
50400 live today5,500 by Year 3
Per month
$18,000
Per year
$216,000
10-yr contract value
$2,160,000
One predictable line item bundles hardware amortization, connectivity, AI monitoring and maintenance — no upfront capex, no separate CCTV contract, no Eskom tariff surprises. Illustrative estimate only; final pricing is confirmed after a site survey.
Social proof
What early pilots are saying.
“We swapped a diesel-lit perimeter and two guard posts for solar poles with cameras. Our security bill dropped and the estate has never felt safer after dark.”
“Parking incidents fell once every bay was properly lit and on camera. The flat monthly fee meant no capital request — it just came out of opex.”
“For our rural wards, off-grid was the only way lighting was ever going to happen. No trenching, no Eskom connection, and it keeps running through load-shedding.”
Testimonials are fictional sample data for demonstration.
Questions
Frequently asked questions.
We own and finance the hardware. You pay one flat monthly opex fee — roughly $45 per unit — that amortizes the solar pole, camera, connectivity, AI monitoring and maintenance over the contract. No capital budget approval, no procurement of separate CCTV, no Eskom connection fees.
Every unit is solar-powered with on-board battery storage, so lighting and cameras stay on independently of the Eskom grid. Load-shedding is exactly when public spaces most need light and surveillance — our units keep running through it.
Each pole pairs adaptive lighting with a CCTV camera and edge AI that flags unusual activity — loitering in off-hours, crowd formation, tampering with the pole itself. Alerts route to your control room or private security in seconds, and the visible camera plus brighter light is itself a strong deterrent.
Yes. Footage is access-controlled, retention is time-limited, and cameras are positioned for public-space safety, not private surveillance. We provide signage, a documented data-processing agreement and role-based access so your team stays compliant with POPIA.
That's the point of going solar. Off-grid units don't need trenching or a grid connection, so remote roads, informal settlements and rural intersections that were never economical to light suddenly are. Connectivity falls back to cellular where fibre isn't available.
Municipal agreements typically run 10 years; estates and malls can start with a shorter pilot. The fee always bundles the same things: hardware, install, connectivity, AI monitoring, maintenance and replacements. If a unit fails, we fix or swap it at no extra charge.
Light up your first street this quarter.
Join the waitlist for a free site survey and a fixed monthly quote. Estates and malls can pilot in weeks — no capital, no commitment until you see it working.
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