Smart street lighting specialist, Flashnet, has chosen Quectel to provide communication modules for its integrated, open protocol, interoperable smart street lighting and IoT platforms for smart cities across the world. Flashnet is a pioneer in street lighting controllers that utilize narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) or LTE-M connectivity. The company, which is headquartered in Brașov, Romania, provides both the hardware and the software for remote streetlight management, grid awareness and smart city integration.

The company supports large-scale street lighting projects which cover hundreds of cities across six continents, improving operations efficiency and energy management. An important part of Flashnet’s offering is the inclusion of cellular connectivity to enable real-time remote control and monitoring of street lighting.

“We have used hundreds of thousands of Quectel communication modules across varying technologies, including NB-IoT, LTE-M, in our street lighting projects worldwide,” confirms Ioan Chiselita, Chief Technology Officer of Flashnet. “A key advantage has been that the modules support multiple communication technologies and fallback options, allowing us operational flexibility in the field. We have selected Quectel modules for their robust cellular connectivity, global network certification and proven industry reliability.”

Chiselita adds that Flashnet’s flagship deployments include highways in Belgium and city lighting in Washington D.C., Brussels and Santiago. In addition, deployments span Iceland to Cyprus and Saudi Arabia to Chile encompassing operations in diverse climates and infrastructures across Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.

“We need stable connectivity in geographically diverse, dense urban environments and require reliable, real-time data transmission with low power consumption,” he explains. “Quectel modules were selected for their robust cellular connectivity, global network certification and proven industrial reliability. They offer a very good cost-benefit ratio for large-scale deployments and deliver high network penetration, strong signal quality and seamless controller integration, ensuring system uptime and scalability. The ability to support multiple communication technologies, including NB-IoT and LTE-M, and provide fallback options is critical for operational safety and flexibility in the field.”

Flashnet’s open protocol, future-proof platform delivers real-time grid awareness, fault detection capabilities and autonomous operations for large-scale deployments in diverse global environments. The company’s systems achieve an up to 40% reduction in energy consumption, an up to 42% reduction in maintenance costs and up to 30% longer lamp life. Benefits to citizens include enhanced public safety, reduced CO2 emissions and improved citizen services. In addition, the Flashnet platform enables further smart city functions including EV charging, smart city sensors and traffic control.

“We’re proud to support Flashnet in its large projects across the globe to help smart cities optimize their street lighting and enhance the performance of their smart lighting systems,” says Grzegorz Bazyluk, Regional Sales Director for Eastern Europe at Quectel Wireless Solutions. “It’s great to be selected for multiple Quectel modules for so many deployments and to play a role in supporting the operational safety and flexibility of smart street lighting. We look forward to continuing our collaboration with Flashnet as its systems light up cities across the globe.”