Smart Street Lighting Infrastructure for Lusail City, Qatar

Challenge: How to lay the foundation for a Truly Smart City?

Lusail Smart City, just north of Doha, is one of the most ambitious urban development projects in the world — spanning 38 square kilometers and designed as a benchmark for sustainability, digital infrastructure, and intelligent public services.

The first visible step in making a city smart — is street lighting. In Hazoum, over 998 street luminaires had to be connected, monitored, and dimmed individually, forming a responsive lighting network that adapts to time, movement, and daylight levels.

The lighting system needed to provide reliable visibility, withstand desert heat, and serve as a launchpad for future urban technologies.

One of the first goals of the Hazoum phase was to deploy a smart lighting system that could:

Reduce energy use while maintaining safety

Offer individual luminaire control across 998+ points

Operate autonomously if network access is lost

Integrate with Lusail’s broader Smart City infrastructure

Be scalable and maintainable in harsh desert climate

The city needed more than just a lighting system — it needed a robust, distributed digital infrastructure ready to support future smart services.

Solution: DITRA’s PLC-based lighting control network

DITRA delivered a fully autonomous street lighting solution using its LiteLINE PLC nodes — each streetlight equipped for individual dimming, switching, and diagnostics. With DITRA CORE PRO cabinets controlling the zones, the system functions both remotely and locally, even during communication failures.

Our scope included:

31 cabinet controllers with our flagship DITRA CORE PRO

998 PLC nodes (LiteLINE) for individual luminaire control

Built-in fallback logic for autonomous operation

Seamless integration with Lusail’s central CMS platform

All components were engineered for high-temperature operation, built with industrial-grade protection, and designed for long-term service in Gulf conditions.

Outcome: Lighting that thinks ahead

Thanks to DITRA’s technology, Lusail now has:

A reliable and scalable digital backbone for street lighting

Energy-efficient dimming and on/off control for every point

Zero dependency on extra control cables

A smart system that remains operational even without network

Infrastructure ready for future upgrades — from air quality sensors to traffic counters
 

The streets of Lusail aren’t just illuminated — they are connected, adaptive, and ready for the future. Every pole can now act as a smart city node.