Week 6 - Smart street in London

Bird Street has become the world's first "smart street" in 2017. In order to transform the street into a “smart street”, a retail trade representative of Bond Street, Oxford Street and Regent Streets (New West End Co), partnered with a short-term rental booking platform (Appear Hear), to provide shopping for travel through smart technology. The goal is to offer shopping travelers with an innovative shopping experience that will fully exploit Bird Street's strong retail potential.






Bird Street is a short walk from the Selfridges department store and Bond Street subway station and has long been considered a strong retail potential. At present, Bird Street has added a lot of technological elements. For example, the sidewalk of the street can use to generate electricity by people walking, which provide energy for streets and shops and collect relevant data for research.
The street is 10 meters long and the new pavement system Pavegan panel converts electrical energy while also collecting flow data. When a pedestrian walks through each of the triangular tiles, the pressure is transmitted to the power generation group and an average of one adult will produce 5 watts of electricity. The electricity generated by the Pavegan panel will supply street lights, roadside shops, and air purification units. The panel is also connected to the Bluetooth transmitter and a  mobile APP. In addition, this app will tell the pedestrians how many steps you have taken, how much energy is converted, and how many seconds of light can be illuminated, how many minutes of phone calls, and how many miles the car takes by these energies. Furthermore, the app will also provide points rewards, the brand store will convert the number of footsteps into discounts and coupons, in order to encourage more people to come here. I think people can really feel how much energy they have created for this world. So it could imagine that if this smart street is used in our city in the future, is it possible for our roads to become a huge power plant?

Reference:
Lynch, P 2017. World's First "Smart Street" in London Turns Footsteps into Energy. https://www.archdaily.com/875701/worlds-first-smart-street-in-london-turns-footsteps-into-energy


Pavegen. Bird street, London. http://www.pavegen.com/bird-street

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