The council previously had a number of small contracts covering issues such as road maintenance and street lighting, and the HESPE contract brought all those elements under one large contract.

BBC: Wallasey Town Hall

During the maintenance three bridges carrying the inner ring road will be refurbished, new lighting will be installed and 600m (1, 968ft) of concrete barriers will be replaced.

BBC: St Alkmund's Way

Once LED lighting systems are networked, you can do a lot of things with them such as detect motion, predict maintenance or figure out how many people are in a room.

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