The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

Street Light Control Box, Electric Power Cost & Usage Details

The Street Lighting Division of Public Works maintains 40,000 out of the City's 67,000 electronic streetlights, and oversees the contracting for the rest. It also takes care of 2,800 gas lights and 1,500 fire-alarm lights. This is a legacy dataset containing details on electric power usage and…

Dataset

Publisher
Public Works Department
Spatial coverage
all
Fields
17
Keywords
efficiency, energy, hubhacks, infrastructure, legacy portal, lighting, power, street lights
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/street-light-control-box-electric-power-cost-usage-details

Artifacts

“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.

FormatPreservationSizeDigestSource
CSVreferenced1011223e3ddcb8898aa70914fcfeaea9dd4419ef94484577d4a08036fe10ec0377e393dsource

Column dictionary

The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.

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Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:dataset:street-light-control-box-electric-power-cost-usage-details
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/street-light-control-box-electric-power-cost-usage-details
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/street-light-control-box-electric-power-cost-usage-details.json
Version
1 · last changed 2 September 2026

Provenance

Source
City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
Licence
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Source identifier
street-light-control-box-electric-power-cost-usage-details
Attribution
City of Boston
Rights as stated
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

Transform ladder

#OperationDescriptionTool
1fetchretrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpointarchive-ingest 0.1.0
2normalizemapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatimarchive-ingest 0.1.0