Street Light Management Software, Run from a Single App
Overview
In a digitized world, technology significantly impacts how cities are managed and run. Innovative street lights are an indispensable part of a smart city — not only essential for visibility and safety, but also capable of reducing costs and increasing efficiency.
Philips, a multinational electronics corporation and one of the world’s largest electronics companies, approached Euristiq with a vision for a smart city software solution centred on smart street light management, to make use of its special LED hue bulbs. We delivered an MVP of an intelligent, adaptive street lighting control system — complemented by an easy-to-operate mobile app where operators adjust light levels, set schedules, and remotely change light colours.
From MVP to market-ready app
From kickoff to a production-ready city lighting IoT MVP for an enterprise client.
Energy savings LED delivers — pushed further with smart scene management.
Automated background monitoring of lamp-group status for early failure detection.
About the product Euristiq worked on
Turn LED hardware into a product
Philips had special LED hue bulbs but needed software to control their colour, hue and brightness remotely — turning components into a connected product that optimises energy consumption and reduces a city’s carbon footprint.
Control lights in groups, reliably
Operators needed to connect, monitor and control a high volume of lamps by area, and switch large groups without malfunctions — a hard reliability problem for public infrastructure.
Operate without technical skill
Lighting operators and field technicians needed an app simple enough to schedule, dim and override lighting without training or specialist knowledge.
Prove the concept fast
Exploring a new product line, Philips needed a demonstrable, reliable MVP quickly — something to prove the concept to stakeholders and justify the investment, not a multi-year build or another project stalled by delays.
We applied our 4D approach
A street light management
system operators run from their phone
IoT street light management software
Our team developed a fully functional solution ready for scalable deployment within just two months. The system’s backend application is deployed on Raspberry Pi, complemented by a mobile app designed for lighting operators. Users can effortlessly adjust the settings and schedule lighting colour, hue or brightness changes through the app. Additionally, the app is equipped to identify lighting failures through continuous background monitoring of lamp-group status.
Easy-to-operate mobile app for street lighting control
Using a mobile app with an intuitive, user-friendly interface, lighting operators can remotely control lighting levels, establish dimming and brightening schedules to provide the desired illumination, create lighting patterns in various colours, and manually override schedules in case of incidents or emergencies. The groups of lights are controlled via specific, complex API calls. Explore our custom mobile app development services.
An MVP ready for scaling
Our team built scalable streetlight control software that runs on the specialized smart LED bulbs manufactured by Philips. This connected lighting control system lets city officials manage street lamps across different areas, adapting them for events or to reflect the city’s identity. To ensure reliability and prevent malfunctions, we implemented light switching as a locking mechanism.
An energy-efficient city
lighting IoT solution, live in 2 months
MVP in 2 months
A production-ready streetlight control software MVP for an enterprise, engineered for scalable deployment.
50–70% energy savings
LED plus smart scene management cuts city lighting energy use far beyond a fixed-schedule baseline.
Remote street light control app
Operators dim, schedule, recolour and override entire lamp groups from a mobile app — no site visit needed.
24/7 failure detection
Continuous background monitoring of lamp-group status flags outages automatically, cutting inspection visits.
Runs on Philips’s LED bulbs
Built around the client’s own smart LED hue bulbs, turning existing hardware into a connected, controllable product.
Ready to scale citywide
A locking mechanism and group-based API control let the streetlight management software expand to new districts and events.
We biuld custom energy
management software
Euristiq takes you from where you are to a scalable and reliable software in months
FAQ
How does street light management software work?
Street light management software connects a city’s LED street lamps to a central backend and a mobile app so operators can control them remotely. In the Philips project, Euristiq deployed the backend on Raspberry Pi and built an Android app that sends complex API calls to grouped lamps. Operators adjust brightness, schedule dimming, change colour and hue, override schedules during incidents, and receive automatic alerts when background monitoring detects a lamp-group failure. The result is full remote control of public lighting from a single screen, with no need to visit each pole.
How long does it take to build a street light management MVP?
Euristiq built a production-ready street light management MVP for Philips in two months. Speed came from an upfront tech-stack decision and requirements elaboration, then focused back-end development on Raspberry Pi with a Java/Kotlin, Google Firebase, Guice and Quartz stack plus an Android operator app. Because the MVP was engineered for scalable deployment from day one — including a light-switching locking mechanism to prevent malfunctions — Philips got a demonstrable, reliable product it could show stakeholders and extend, rather than a throwaway prototype.
What is smart street light management?
Smart street light management is the remote, automated control of a city’s LED street lighting through connected controllers and software. Instead of lamps burning at a fixed level all night, a smart street light management system dims, brightens, schedules and recolours lights based on time, season, traffic or events, and monitors lamp status to flag failures early. Paired with LED, smart controls push energy savings well beyond the 50–70% that LED alone delivers, while making public lighting safer and more responsive to a city’s needs.
Can you monitor and track road lighting infrastructure remotely?
Yes — remote monitoring is core to the street light management software Euristiq built for Philips. The system continuously checks the status of lamp groups in the background and identifies lighting failures automatically, so operators see problems without inspecting poles in person. Every group of lights is controlled through specific API calls, and operators can manually override schedules from the mobile app during incidents or emergencies. This gives cities live visibility of their road lighting infrastructure and the ability to act on outages from anywhere.
Can you build custom street light management software as a development partner?
Yes. Euristiq is a software development vendor, not a product vendor — we build custom street light management software around your hardware, requirements and city. For Philips we delivered a working MVP in two months, from tech-stack decision through back-end development, the operator app and QA. Whether you’re starting from LED bulbs and a concept or need to take over a stalled build, we assemble a team, control lamp groups through APIs, add remote monitoring and alerts, and ship software you can demo to stakeholders and scale citywide.
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