Both Philips and Telensa have announced smart city lighting wins this week, with Philips netting the first deployment of its CityTouch system, giving the city of Los Angeles control over its LED lighting portfolio via mobile apps and cloud interfaces, and Telensa expanding its UK footprint with 33,000 new lights in Doncaster. Electricity is typically a city’s largest single expense, after its wage bill, and so systems that can reduce that cost are attractive propositions. With LED lighting, the electricity consumption of the existing street lighting deployment, of the lights can be radically reduced – with some claims ranging between 30-70%. Those savings are just on the lighting technology, and don’t include the efficiency improvements that can be achieved via…