Case studies
Proven on the street, in towns and cities across the UK
NOW Wireless has designed and built its own wireless systems, sensors and AI in the United Kingdom since 2002, and put them on the infrastructure a city already owns. These are some of the places where that work is running today.
NOW Wireless
One company, from the radio on the pole to the data on the screen
Councils buy from NOW Wireless because the pieces are designed to work together: a self‑healing Mesh5G street network, air quality and journey‑time sensors, AI on new and existing cameras, and SenseView — the real‑time data platform that collects it all and acts on it. Every deployment starts small, on infrastructure the authority already has, and grows from there.
The stories
Five deployments, five different problems
Each study sets out the challenge the authority faced, what was installed, and what it changed — with the results the council measured.
Traffic signals · Wireless
Glasgow City Council
A city’s traffic signals, taken off the phone line
80% of leased lines removed; more than 900 junctions running over a secure mesh network for over two decades — now carrying the city’s sensors and AI as well.
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Air quality · Smart City
City of Wolverhampton Council
Seeing NO₂ hot spots in real time
Pollution monitors and journey‑time detectors connected straight into 400+ existing mesh nodes — 30,000 data points a day, no new circuits or power supplies.
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Air quality · AI forecasting
Staffordshire County Council
Forecasting pollution an hour ahead
AI predicted NO₂ spikes outside a care home and gated traffic upstream where the air disperses. Spikes down by up to 7 ppb; journey times unchanged.
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CCTV · Wireless
Portsmouth City Council
Reliable camera coverage, fewer fixed lines
Traffic cameras across the city share a handful of fixed connections over the mesh, with browser‑based viewing for the council and its maintenance contractor.
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Police · AI on existing cameras
Ghost plates with Surrey Police
Closing the ANPR gap on the cameras a force already has
SenseTrace AI treats a failed plate read as the warning it is and alerts officers while the vehicle is still on the road — trialled live with Surrey Police.
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Start on the infrastructure you already own
Every one of these deployments began with a trial on a single street or site. Tell us the problem and we will scope the first step.
Talk to usWho we work with
Local authorities and transport bodies across the UK and Ireland
NOW Wireless is a Crown Commercial Service approved supplier. Its equipment is on the street for councils and transport authorities including:
Also: Bristol, Cardiff, Dumfries and Galloway, Dublin, Inverness, North East Lincolnshire, Portsmouth, St Helens, Walsall, Worcester, the NHS and Hong Kong.
How a deployment grows
Start with one street. Finish with a city.
One problem
A failing loop, a pollution hot spot, an unreliable camera link, a junction without data.
One street
A trial on existing infrastructure — the pole, the cabinet, the cameras you already have.
One network
The mesh goes in once. Every device after that plugs into it with no new circuit.
One picture
SenseView brings every sensor, camera and AI result into one real‑time view and acts on it.
Talk to us
Tell us the problem. We’ll scope the first street.
Our engineers work with traffic, air quality and CCTV teams across the UK. A conversation about your network costs nothing.