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Street light poles can be retrofitted with smart LED -based lighting and can be leased out to service providers for deployment of small cell technology. As a result, Smart City initiatives allow for municipalities to take light poles in the rights-of-way and utilize them for many different functionalities beyond lighting. Smart City initiatives allow for municipalities utilize light poles in the rights-of-way for many different functionalities from light monitoring and management to deployment of sensor technologies that can monitor environmental factors including crime activity, trends in traffic congestion and pollution. Community standards regarding aesthetics, design and style solutions require that high functionality be coupled with pleasing design characteristics. Current trends in smart street lighting range from cost saving LED lighting to powerful engineered solutions including sensor placement, distributed antenna systems (DAS) and Wi-Fi deployment, and municipal communications functionality (i.e. security cameras, traffic monitoring). Municipalities vary in their implementation of these devices and technologies; however, determining an appropriate street pole can assist a city or town in scaling technology for the future, enabling additional technologies to be added as they come to market. San Leandro is well ahead of this curve, thanks to an innovative project lead by its Public Works Department. In 2014, the City issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for an LED retrofit project. This eventually lead to a citywide deployment of Smart LED Street Lights. These lights are mesh -connected in a Low -Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) operating in the 900 MHz ISM Band. These nodes backhaul on approximately 35 strategically placed Wi-Fi access points which, in turn, connect to the City's fiber-optic network at designated traffic signal intersections. The data transports along the fiber network to City Hall, where it reaches a virtual Control Management System (CMS). Using a web interface to access the CMS, City staff can individually control every light, set policies for when the lights turn off and on, monitor functionality and even get text messages and email alerts to do proactive maintenance when a light bulb fails. This citywide IoT network effectively transforms the City into a technology platform. To show its commitment to this concept, the San Leandro City Council formally signed the TM Forum's "City as a Platform Manifesto," which outlines steps for exactly how a technology platform like this can benefit a city and its residents17. City Staff have already begun exploring what the City as a Platform concept can look like. In summer 2017, students from Harvey Mudd College (including a San Leandro High School graduate) interned with Pilot City, a San Leandro education incubator, to develop a Smart Waste Monitoring pilot solution for street trash cans that connected to the City's 17 Intra �nd�nd�nd.ir7�'i u.Jir7.i .. r7a:�i �...i ...�'i u.�ir7i ...ala:��'c�i ir7...ir7a:�ini�'c� o1.. 39 1 P City of San Leandro, CA Fiber Master Plan