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Please provide a summary of what the Asplundh tree company is doing with their street lighting business.
Hello there! Thank you for your question on what the Asplundh tree company is doing with their street lighting business. The short answer is Asplundh Tree Expert Co. offers street lighting and signalization in a number of markets through its subsidiary American Lighting and Signalization, Inc. (ALS). Below you will find a deep dive of my research findings, as well as how I came to this conclusion. I hope that this helps you!
METHODOLOGY
In my research I used, corporate websites, industry reports, trusted media sites and government reports/databases to provide you with a summary, of what the Asplundh tree company is doing with their street lighting business. The Asplundh tree company itself focuses on vegetation, but it is a parent company to American Lighting and Signalization, which offers street lighting services. The two most useful sources were Utilicon Ltd. and the ALS brochure. My results are as follows:
COMPANY OVERVIEW
The Asplundh Tree Expert Co. was founded when three brothers, Carl, Griffith and Lester decided to "combine their educations and experience in arboriculture, electrical engineering and finance" in 1928. The company's key focus is on utility vegetation management, but also it has subsidiaries (Utilicon Solutions and GridOne) that offer lighting and signalization, in a number of markets. All of the Asplundh company uses smart technology such as Fleet Management, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and SmartGrid in vegetation management, lighting and signalization. It seems they arrived early into the world of smart technology and IoT, (as early as 2005), and have since advanced to be arguably the best in the industry. Considering the company's commitment to safety, smart technology has worked well to keep employees safe and the company efficient. Today, the company Aslpundh employs over 30,000 people, and has an annual revenue of $5.47 billion.
AMERICAN LIGHTING AND SIGNALIZATION
UtiliCon Solution, a subsidiary of Asplundh, offers a variety of street lighting services through its subsidiary company; American Lighting and Signalization, Inc. Street lighting services include; roadway lighting construction and maintenance, luminaire conversions, fault locating, street light pole painting, storm restoration, system identification and mapping, high mast bridge, under deck and shoulder lighting, upgrade/retrofit/ pole replacement projects and airport and navigational lighting services. The company also offers signalization services including: design build projects, traffic signals construction, intelligent transportation system, arterial dynamic message signs, traffic incident management systems, fiber optic and wireless communication systems, overhead sign structure, pedestrian walkways and ADA ramps.
American Lighting and Signalization has over 30 years of industry experience and is known for "getting the job done on time and within budget." All projects are professionally managed and executed by a "skilled workforce of experience craftsmen." ALS's current customer base includes utility companies, municipalities, state transportation departments, road and bridge contractors, port authorities, aviation authorities and asset management companies.
Today, smart cities use advances in digital technology, data sharing and intelligent design via sensors in street lights and traffic signals to create a distributed layer of intelligence in an open connected infrastructure to make cities safer and more livable. Cities and utilities are transferring to LED technology, due to their cost efficiency and other potential advantages. Some pioneering cities are installing components that allow street lights to serve as Wi-Fi hotspots, deliver announcements, host digital signage, collect data about air quality, collect data about parking spots, collect data about people on the street and many other "Internet of Things" scenarios. Smart street lighting can serve as the background for many other smart city applications. Although ALS website, does not specifically state which smart technologies the company is capable of building, they state, "As an Asplundh company, ALS has the financial strength to take on projects of any size and complexity."
Address: 11639 Davis Creek Road East
Jacksonville FL 32256
Phone: 904-886-4300
Fax 904-886-4422
Email: ALS@UTILICONLTD.COM
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